Rampal Case: Quantum of punishment for convicted self-styled godman to be announced on Oct 16,17

A Hisar court will on Tuesday and Wednesday pronounce the quantum of punishment for self-styled godman Rampal, who was convicted on October 11 in connection with the two murder cases registered against him and 27 of his followers in 2014. The verdict was pronounced at the Hisar Central Jail. Rampal was not taken out of the prison. He was instead produced inside the makeshift court via video conferencing. Rampal is currently lodged in Hisar’s Central Jail-2.

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Rampal and the 27 others were booked on charges of murder and wrongful confinement after four women and a child were found dead in the Satlok Ashram on November 19, 2014. Another case was registered against the self-styled godman and his followers after a woman was found dead at his ashram in November 2018.

The Hisar administration has deployed forces to contain any violence. In August last year, another self-styled godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s followers had unleashed violence in Hisar after the Dear Sacha Sauda chief was convicted of rape. As many as 30 people had died in the aftermath of the verdict and properties worth several crores destroyed.

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Rampal founded the Satlok Ashram in Karotha village of the Rohtak district in Haryana in 1999, based on his following from within the Kabir Panth.