Self-styled godman Rampal sentenced to life imprisonment in 2 murder cases

  • | Tuesday | 16th October, 2018

( With inputs from PTI) GURUGRAM: Self-styled godman Rampal has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in two murder cases by a Hisar court on Tuesday.Rampal of Hisar's Satlok Ashram and 26 of his followers were convicted on October 11 by a court in two separate cases of murder and other offences.Hisar Additional District and Sessions Judge D R Chaliya held godman Rampal and his followers guilty of two murders and other offences, including wrongful confinement of victims at his hermitage.The two cases against Rampal and his followers were lodged at Barwala police station on November 19, 2014. The first one (FIR No 429/2014) was lodged on the complaint of one Shivpal of Mithapur near Badrapur in Delhi, while the second one (FIR No 430/2014) was lodged by Suresh of Jakhora village of Lalitpur district in Uttar Pradesh.Both of them had complained that their respective wives hand been murdered inside Rampal's ashram at Barwala village where they had been held captive by the godman and his followers.Besides the murder charges, the Barwala police had also invoked offences of wrongful confinement and criminal in the two FIRs.As the police proceeded to arrest Rampal holed up inside his ashram, his followers and devotees, numbering over 15,000 surrounded the sprawling, 12-acre ashram to prevent the godman's arrest.The ensuing violence by the godman's followers had laid to death of six persons -- five women and an infant.

GURUGRAM: Self-styled godman Rampal has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in two murder cases by a Hisar court on Tuesday.Rampal of Hisar's Satlok Ashram and 26 of his followers were convicted on October 11 by a court in two separate cases of murder and other offences.Hisar Additional District and Sessions Judge D R Chaliya held godman Rampal and his followers guilty of two murders and other offences, including wrongful confinement of victims at his hermitage.The two cases against Rampal and his followers were lodged at Barwala police station on November 19, 2014. The first one (FIR No 429/2014) was lodged on the complaint of one Shivpal of Mithapur near Badrapur in Delhi, while the second one (FIR No 430/2014) was lodged by Suresh of Jakhora village of Lalitpur district in Uttar Pradesh.Both of them had complained that their respective wives hand been murdered inside Rampal's ashram at Barwala village where they had been held captive by the godman and his followers.Besides the murder charges, the Barwala police had also invoked offences of wrongful confinement and criminal in the two FIRs.As the police proceeded to arrest Rampal holed up inside his ashram, his followers and devotees, numbering over 15,000 surrounded the sprawling, 12-acre ashram to prevent the godman's arrest.The ensuing violence by the godman's followers had laid to death of six persons -- five women and an infant.( With inputs from PTI)

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