{"id":304033,"date":"2018-10-11T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304033"},"modified":"2018-10-11T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:27:10","slug":"self-styled-godman-rampal-convicted-in-two-murder-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/self-styled-godman-rampal-convicted-in-two-murder-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Styled Godman Rampal convicted in two murder cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304034 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rampal-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"179\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Self-styled godman Rampal on Thursday was found guilty by a court in two separate murder cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rampal was convicted on the charges of murder in a 2006 case related to the death of a woman supporter at the Satlok Ashram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another case Rampal and 27 of his followers were convicted on the charges of murder in 2014, that dealt with the deaths of four women and a child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In both the cases, Rampal was charged under section 302 and 120(B) of Indian Penal Code<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The quantum of punishment will be announced on October 16 and 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A special court was set up inside Hisar\u2019s Central Jail to pronounce the judgment via video conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rampal was arrested in November 2014 after thousands of security personnel laid siege to the Satlok Ashram in Hisar. The followers of Rampal had resisted the previous attempts by police to arrest him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the Hisar court in August 2017 had acquitted Rampal in two cases of wrongful confinement and disobedience to order given by a public servant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rampal was born in September 1951 in Dhanana, a village in the\u00a0Gohana\u00a0tehsil\u00a0of\u00a0Sonepat district. He worked as an engineer in the\u00a0Government of Haryana&#8217;s irrigation department.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-styled godman Rampal on Thursday was found guilty by a court in two separate murder cases. Rampal was convicted on the charges of murder in a 2006 case related to the death of a woman supporter at the Satlok Ashram. In another case Rampal and 27 of his followers were convicted on the charges of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,2014],"tags":[1601,1668,5524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304037,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304033\/revisions\/304037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}