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Indian religious leader

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Rampal (born Rampal Singh Jatain on 8 September ) is an Indian religious cult leader and murder convict of the Kabir Panth religious denomination.^[2]

He is a disciple of Swami Ramdevanand, a local seer, and Hindu saint from the Garib Das Panth sect.

In , Swami Ramdevanand selected him as his successor, causing Rampal to quit his job as a junior engineer.^[3] In , he and his followers established Satlok Ashram in Rohtak, Haryana^[4] and would go on to start several other ashrams in Jhajjar and Rohtak.^[3]

In , Rampal publicly objected to certain parts of Satyarth Prakash, a central book of Arya Samaj.^[5] In July , a violent confrontation between the followers of Arya Samaj and the supporters of Rampal took place at the Satlok Ashram, leading to the death of an Arya Samaj follower.

Rampal was accused of triggering the confrontation and charged and a