Summary:
Rampal and 14 of his followers had urged the court not to sentence them to death. India may be a religious country, but that should not give politicians a reason to mix politics with religion. All the sentences will run concurrently.The judge also highlighted the alleged nexus between these “godmen” and some politicians. “Political patronage sometimes allows these godmen to literally run parallel states, replete with their own armies, at times. The superiority is convincing.”Chalia, who presided over a special court inside Hisar central jail, where Rampal is lodged, observed that this was not a rarest of rare cases..