--- title: Six Killed And Nearly 200 Injured In Clashes At Ashram In India description: The casualties in the clashes between police and a spiritual leader's supporters include five women and an 18-month-child canonical: https://time.com/3594179/six-killed-200-injured-india-ashram-haryana-sant-rampal/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-19T09:42:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T11:32:03.735Z article:section: World og:title: Six Killed in Ashram Clashes og:description: An 18-month-old child is among the casualties og:url: https://time.com/3594179/six-killed-200-injured-india-ashram-haryana-sant-rampal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a83f58962c27bf5/6987697706f2c12ded33250f/india-ashram-raid_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: India Ashram Raid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Six Killed in Ashram Clashes twitter:description: An 18-month-old child is among the casualties twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a83f58962c27bf5/6987697706f2c12ded33250f/india-ashram-raid_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Six Dead, Nearly 200 Injured Amid Clashes at Indian Ashram by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Nov 19, 2014 9:42 AM CUT  Supporters try to resist police water cannon as police storm the ashram of controversial Indian guru Sant Rampal, in search of him at Hisar in Haryana state, India, Tuesday, Nov.18, 2014. Supporters try to resist police water cannon as police storm the ashram of controversial Indian guru Sant Rampal, in search of him at Hisar in Haryana state, India, Tuesday, Nov.18, 2014.Bansilal Basniwal—AP by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Nov 19, 2014 9:42 AM CUT At least six people have died and about were 190 injured as [violent clashes](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/5a13b342d9f74bc8a74173d2de658eaf/police-storm-ashram-india-search-guru "undefined") broke out at the ashram of an Indian religious leader wanted by the police for an alleged 2006 murder. Over half the injured were police officers who swooped on the maze-like ashram of 63-year-old Sant Rampal in the north-Indian state of Haryana on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Police fired water cannons and tear gas into the compound belonging to the spiritual guru, who has ignored 43 court summonses for murder relating to a person killed in clashes between his followers and opponents in July 2006\. Rampal’s supporters reportedly retaliated with guns, rocks and bags of acid, and police efforts to break through a wall were halted on suspicion that it was rigged with explosives. “We want to ensure that innocent people inside the ashram are not harmed,” said Haryana’s director-general of police Shriniwas Vashisht. Members of the ashram handed over the dead bodies of four women to local authorities Wednesday morning, [according](http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/police-confirm-two-deaths-as-hisar-godman-rampal-evades-arrest/ "undefined") to the _Indian Express_, and another woman rushed to the hospital in a critical state was pronounced dead on arrival. An 18-month-old child was also among Wednesday’s casualties. Local news channel NDTV, whose journalists were among those injured in the clashes, [reported](http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/4-bodies-at-rampal-s-ashram-18-month-old-died-in-hospital-10-developments-622819?curl=1416385046 "undefined") that the child was suffering from jaundice and was unable to get treatment because Rampal’s supporters prevented anyone leaving the premises. Thousands of the engineer-turned-godman’s followers now appear to be leaving the ashram, and police say they are confident Rampal is holed up inside despite reports that he had fled. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3594179/six-killed-200-injured-india-ashram-haryana-sant-rampal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3594179/six-killed-200-injured-india-ashram-haryana-sant-rampal/"},"headline":"Six Dead, Nearly 200 Injured Amid Clashes at Indian Ashram","datePublished":"2014-11-19T09:42:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:32:03.735Z","description":"The dead include five women and an 18-month-child","url":"https://time.com/3594179/six-killed-200-injured-india-ashram-haryana-sant-rampal/","keywords":["Murder","India","killed","injured"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a83f58962c27bf5/6987697706f2c12ded33250f/india-ashram-raid_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a83f58962c27bf5/6987697706f2c12ded33250f/india-ashram-raid_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"India Ashram Raid","caption":"India Ashram Raid","creditText":"Bansilal Basniwal—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3594179/six-killed-200-injured-india-ashram-haryana-sant-rampal/","name":"Six Dead, Nearly 200 Injured Amid Clashes at Indian Ashram"}}]}] ```