The Supreme Courtroom of India (SC) has on January 7 granted bail to self-styled godman Asaram Bapu on medical grounds until March 31 in relation to a 2013 rape case, in response to a PTI report.
Additional, the apex court docket has directed Asaram to not meet his followers after he’s launched on interim bail, it added.
Background for Bail
Earlier on January 1, Asaram returned to Jodhpur jail after being launched on a 17-day parole, which started from December 18, in response to an ANI report.
He was below therapy in Pune, whereas serving a life imprisonment sentence at Jodhpur Central Jail within the 2013 sexual assault case. Earlier, Advocate Yaspali Singh Rajpurohit, representing Asaram, spoke to ANI and confirmed that he was lodged in jail as per the Excessive Courtroom’s orders.
“The Excessive Courtroom had issued an order that said that Asaram needed to return to jail earlier than January 2 in any other case it will be a contempt of court docket. He was introduced again to the Jodhpur jail at present itself,” he mentioned.
Earlier on November 22, 2024, the SC issued discover to the Gujarat govt on a plea filed by self-proclaimed godman Asaram searching for the suspension of the life imprisonment sentence imposed on him by a trial court docket in a rape case.
The bench mentioned that it will situation discover, however would think about solely medical situations. Counsel showing for Asaram advised the bench that he was affected by severe medical illnesses and sought his interim launch from jail.
2013 Rape Case
A classes court docket in Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2023 convicted Asaram below varied provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in a 2013 rape of a feminine disciple at a Surat Ashram.
In August, whereas listening to an attraction in opposition to the trial court docket verdict, the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom declined to droop his life imprisonment sentence.
Thereafter, Asaram had moved to the highest court docket searching for launch from jail.
Asaram was in Indore and dropped at Jodhpur for raping a teenage woman in his ashram in 2013. after being arrested.
The woman had reported that she was known as to his ashram close to Jodhpur and assaulted by him on the evening of August 15, 2013.
(With inputs from PTI and ANI)
