NEW DELHI: Haryana Police finally arrested elusive self-styled godman Rampal on Wednesday evening from his fortified Satlok Ashram near Barwala in Haryana. He was whisked away in an ambulance which was followed by a number of police vehicles.
The police had been preparing for the final assault to arrest Rampal from his ashram since late evening, where four women died mysteriously and two others in hospital in the midst of a showdown.
“We have arrested him. He is in our custody. He is being taken to hospital for medical examination,” a senior police officer said. There was not much resistance offered by Rampal’s supporters and his private army when he was finally taken into custody after 9pm, a police officer said.
The controversial 63-year-old baba will produced in a Hisar court on Thursday, superintendent of police, Panipat Satish Balan told reporters.
