SC grants interim bail to self-styled godman Asaram on medical grounds till March 31 in 2013 rape case

(*31*)The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim bail to jailed self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case on medical grounds till March 31. Notably, a bench of Justices M M Sundresh and Rajesh Bindal directed Asaram not to meet his followers publish launch.

(*31*)The prime court docket mentioned 86-year-old Asaram was affected by varied age-related well being circumstances in addition to a coronary heart ailment. The prime court docket had sought Gujarat authorities’s response on Asaram’s plea for suspension of life sentence awarded to him by a Gandhinagar court docket in 2023. The SC mentioned it could solely look at the problem on medical grounds.

(*31*)On August 29, 2024, the Gujarat High Court rejected Asaram’s plea searching for the suspension and located no case to grant him the reprieve.

(*31*)The trial court docket in January, 2023, convicted Asaram in the 2013 case, filed by a lady who lived in his ashram close to Gandhinagar when the alleged crime befell.

(*31*)Asaram is presently lodged in a Jodhpur jail in Rajasthan in one other rape case.

(*31*)(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA employees and is revealed from PTI)

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