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Stupid comparison !A Qadri class feat now in India as well
Guru in Indian ashram stand-off accused of treason
Indian authorities have accused a Hindu religious leader of treason after a deadly stand-off at an ashram where the guru surrounded himself with thousands of followers in an attempt to resist arrest on murder charges.
Police in the north Indian state of Haryana said they found four bodies after they stormed the ashram of the self-styled Sant Rampalji Maharaj on Wednesday, a day after fighting pitched battles with the 63-year-old religious leader’s armed militiamen. Two more people, including a baby, later died in hospital.
Authorities on Wednesday said they had evacuated as many as 15,000 people, many of whom claimed they’d been kept inside the fortified compound against their will, as food and supplies dwindled.
“The godman was using his devotees as a human shield,” S.N. Vaisht, a senior police officer, told reporters.
Police finally arrested the sect leader on Wednesday night and he was expected to appear in court on Thursday. Police said he would be charged with treason. Postmortem examinations are being carried out on the bodies found inside the compound, which authorities said bore no visible wounds or injury marks.
Rampal Singh Jatin was a junior engineer with the Haryana Irrigation Department until he resigned in 1995 and set up shop as a charismatic, sharp-tongued preacher.
Rampal proclaims his devotion to Kabir, a 15th century mystic, peace-loving poet and saint, who rejected the rigid Hindu caste system and idol worship. But in contrast to the poetry of his guru, Baba Rampal adopted caustic and aggressive language that antagonised more orthodox Hindus.
The murder charges against the cult leader stem from a 2006 pitched battle in Haryana, where one person was killed and 59 injured, when Rampal’s supporters clashed with disciples of a well-established, reformist Hindu sect, the Arya Samaj, after he allegedly denigrated its 19th century founder.
After the 2006 violence, authorities in Haryana seized Rampal’s ashram, and he spent nearly two years in jail. After his release, he set up in a different ashram, and refused to attend court hearings in the continuing murder case, prompting the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.
Rampal is not the only Hindu sect leader – or “godman” as they are popularly known in the Indian media – to run into legal trouble with the authorities.
Last year, Indian police launched a manhunt for Asaram Bapu, a hugely popular septuagenarian preacher, after a teenage girl accused him of sexually molesting her. He was finally arrested in a midnight raid in one of his ashrams in Rajasthan.
But with their huge numbers of followers, charismatic Hindu preachers also wield tremendous political clout. This week, India’s new government decided to provide the highest-level government security – at taxpayer expense – to Baba Ramdev, a yoga guru who campaigned heavily for Prime Minister Narendra Modi during this year’s elections.
Baba Ramdev, who believes yoga can cure HIV/Aids and cancer, will now have a round-the-clock squad of 70 paramilitary personnel dedicated to his personal protection.
No one knows this RAMDev fully even in india?
While TUQ is famous all around the world?
Specially making Ganjas bowing down to his feets?
Can't say word against him now a days why?
