| Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was born to Maghar Singh Sidhu and Naseeb Kaur after 18 years of marriage. |
| His father, Maghar Singh, was a landlord in Rajasthan's Sri Ganganagar district. |
| Born into a Sikh family, Gurmeet was not particularly inclined towards any religious faith. |
| Gurmeet's father started going to Dera Sacha Sauda, a religious cult, when Gurmeet was a child. |
| Gurmeet became a Dera worker at the age of 7, following his father's footsteps. |
| While not very spiritual initially, Gurmeet assisted his father in Seva and performed odd jobs at the Dera. |
| At 18 years old in the 1980s, he married Harjeet Kaur. |
| In 1990, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh became the third Chief of the DSS at 23 years old. |
| Some of Singh's followers considered him to be the rebirth of Baba Balochistani. |
| Allegations against him surfaced in 2002 after a sadhvi wrote a letter to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. |
| In 2007, he sparked controversy by wearing a robe similar to Guru Gobind Singh's. |
| He adopted a girl named Honeypreet as his third daughter. |
| In 2012, he released his first commercial music album, "Thank You For That." |
| Ram Rahim was involved in hosting 'Ruhani Ru-ba-Ru Nights' concerts. |
| The Indian Express listed him among the 100 most powerful Indians in 2015. |
| He holds 22 Guinness World Records for various achievements. |
| He collaborated with the American Society of Echocardiography to set a world record for 'Most Cardiac Echo Tests.' |
| His followers began using the surname 'Insan.' |
| In 2009, he launched a campaign against forced prostitution and rescued women from the sex trade. |
| He encouraged his followers to marry former sex workers, resulting in 1500 marriages. |
| Gurmeet established the MSG Bharatiya Khel Gaon, a sports complex spread across 23 acres at his Dera headquarters. |
