The Supreme Courtroom Tuesday granted interim bail to Asumal Harpalani, popularly often known as Asaram Bapu, on medical grounds in a 2013 rape case, information company PTI reported.
The SC additionally directed Asaram to not meet his followers as soon as he’s launched on interim bail, as per the report.
In August 2013, Delhi police had filed a case in opposition to him on prices of raping a 16-year outdated woman in his Jodhpur Ashram. A particular SC/ST courtroom in Jodhpur had convicted the self-proclaimed godman, within the sexual assault case.
He has been in jail since August 31, 2013, and was charged beneath related sections of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
In April 2018, he was additionally convicted for raping a 16-year-old woman in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Each rape circumstances — in Jodhpur and Gandhinagar — had been registered in 2013.
Earlier than the conviction, Asaram was a preferred spiritual guru. After beginning his first ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad within the Nineteen Seventies, he established a multi-crore enterprise empire — consisting of varied merchandise and religious literature — that continued to develop whereas he went on establishing ashrams throughout the nation.
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