Jodhpur:
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu returned to Jodhpur jail on Wednesday after being launched on a 17-day parole.
The parole was granted for 17 days, ranging from December 18 final month.
The self-styled godman, who had been below therapy in Pune, has been serving a life imprisonment sentence at Jodhpur Central Jail in a 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 acknowledged 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 right now itself,” he mentioned.
In line with an official order from the Excessive Courtroom of Judicature for Rajasthan at Jodhpur, Asaram was to return to jail as per the circumstances of his parole on January 2. Since he was launched on a 17-day parole (15 days of parole and a couple of days for touring), he returned to jail on January 1.
“The applicant shall give up himself earlier than the Superintendent of Central Jail, Jodhpur by 5 pm on January 2,” mentioned the official order.
Earlier on November 22, 2024, the Supreme Courtroom issued discover to the Gujarat authorities on a plea filed by self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu 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 difficulty discover, however would take into account solely medical circumstances.
Counsel showing for Asaram informed the bench that he was affected by severe medical illnesses and sought his interim launch from jail.
A periods court docket in Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2023 convicted Asaram below numerous 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 enchantment towards 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 delivered to Jodhpur for raping a teenage woman in his ashram in 2013. after being arrested.
The woman had reported that she was referred to as to his ashram close to Jodhpur and assaulted by him on the night time of August 15, 2013.
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