SC refuses to grant parole to self-styled godman Rampal

RAMPAL IS UNDERGOING LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MURDER, WRONGFUL CONFINEMENT OF PEOPLE AND CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant parole to self-styled godman Rampal from Haryana, who is undergoing life imprisonment in murder cases.

A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and justices R Subhash Reddy and AS Bopanna dismissed the plea of Rampal seeking parole to attend the wedding of his granddaughter, scheduled on Wednesday.

On October 17, 2018, engineerturned self-styled godman Rampal and his 13 followers were sentenced to life imprisonment in a second case of murder registered at Barwala in Hisar district of Haryana on November 19, 2014.

Rampal and his followers were convicted for murder, wrongful confinement of people and criminal conspiracy.

A woman was found dead at Rampal’s ashram in Hisar district on November 19, 2014. Rampal was arrested the same day for murder and other charges were slapped on him. He was also sentenced for life in another case of murder on October 16, 2018, involving the death of four women and a child at the ashram on November 18, 2014.

On October 11, 2018, Rampal and his followers had been convicted in two cases of murder and other offences, including wrongful confinement of his victims at his ashram in Hisar.

He and his followers since their arrest in November 2014, were convicted after a four-year trial by the lower court in Haryana in 2018.

The two murder cases against Rampal and his followers were filed at Barwala police station on November 19, 2014.