Chandigarh, April 9 -- Hisar-based Satlok Ashram head and self-styled godman, Rampal, will be out on bail after a period of 11 years. He has been in prison since November 2014 in connection with the murder of five women and an 18-month-old baby.

He was arrested on November 19, 2014, following several days of face-off between the police and his supporters outside the ashram in Hisar's Barwala. Four women were found murdered in the ashram after the stand-off ended and a woman and an infant later died in hospital. The violence also left 110 police personnel and 70 civilians injured.

As per his lawyer, Arjun Sheoron, in other cases he has either been acquitted or his sentence has been suspended by the Punjab and Haryana high court. "This wa...