CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday granted bail to the controversial head of sect Satlok Ashram, Rampal, who is serving a life sentence in connection with the 2014 riots and violence at the Karantha Ashram in Barwala in Hisar.
He has been lodged in Central Jail in Hisar, some 200 km from Chandigarh.
“The High Court’s bail order will be sent to the respective court. After that, the bail bond will be filed there. Then the order will reach the jail and after this Rampal will be released, ” Central Jail Superintendent Umesh Kumar told the media.
Rampal, 74, was arrested in connection with a contempt of court case emerging out of the murder of a man in 2006, as well as the sedition case in connection with large-scale violence in 2014.
A Division Bench of Justices G.S. Gill and Ramesh Kumari accepted the regular bail plea with conditions in the case involving sedition and other serious sections registered against him.