Self-styled godman Rampal has been found guilty in two murder cases by the Hisar court on Thursday.
Convicted in both murder cases, the Hisar Court will announce the quantum of punishment against Rampal on October 16 and 17.
In 2014, Rampal was booked on charges of murder and wrongful confinement after four women and a child were found dead in Barwala’s Satlok Ashram. Another case was registered against the self-styled godman and his followers after a woman was found dead in his ashram.
Last year, the Hisar court had acquitted Rampal in an 11-year-old conspiracy case.
Rampal was arrested in 2014 after a tense standoff between some of his supporters and the police when close to 15,000 of his followers were evacuated from the sprawling premises of Satlok Ashram.
Known to his followers as Satguru Rampalji Maharaj, the ‘godman’ is leader of one of the nearly 100 deras (ashrams, cults) that dot rural Haryana and Punjab. During the 2014 siege, when six ashram inmates died apparently due to natural causes. Four other deaths are believed to have happened in the ashram over the years. For his followers all that is a lie and conspiracy hatched by "people who do not know him."