Asaram bapu

A Gandhinagar Sessions Court’s decision Tuesday to give the life sentence to Asumal Harpalani, popularly known as Asaram Bapu, in a rape case marks yet another fall for the self-styled godman who had once been a powerful figure in the country with a huge following and affinity with important political personalities across party lines. This is the second conviction for Asaram in a rape case. Earlier, in April 2018, he was convicted for raping a 16-year-old girl in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Both rape cases — in Jodhpur and Gandhinagar — were registered in 2013. Before falling into disgrace, Asaram was a popular religious guru. After starting his first ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati river in Also Read | With such influence, Asaram’s political followers also increased, cutting across party lines and he also had a strong following in Gujarat’s bureaucracy. Some of the political leaders who were seen with Asaram during his prime days include the then chief minister of Gujarat and current Prime Minister On condition of anonymity, a senior Congress leader said, “He (Asaram) had political followers across party lines. Kamal Nath was considered very close to him. However, he was more close to Asaram started facing stiff challenges from 2008 onwards, when two minor boys studying at a residential gurukul run by his trust went missing on July 3, 2008. Their bodies were found on the Sabarmati riverbed two days later. The incident was followed by a huge public agitation against the self-...

After Jodhpur police and commandos had pushed Asaram into a vehicle and raced towards Indore airport on August 31, 2013, Ajay Pal Lamba got a call on his mobile phone. “Mukta kisi bhi gaadi mein nahin hai. Woh humare saath nahin hai, sir. Woh peechche ashram main hi chhoot gayi hai lagta hai!’ (Mukta is not in any of the vehicles. She is not with us, sir. It seems that she has been left behind at the ashram!)” Controversial godman Asaram’s trial was long and arduous and the team prosecuting him had to face several challenges.(Sourced Photo) Sub-inspector Mukta Pareek, SHO of the Women’s Police Station (West), Jodhpur, went missing in the melee that preceded the arrest of controversial godman Asaram Bapu at the Indore ashram. Amid the sudden, unforeseen action, the team members’ detailing and who would sit where and in which vehicle, had been disturbed. Mukta was safe. She called Lamba to tell him that she hopped on to an Indore Police vehicle and was also headed to the airport. This is one of the many tales from a new book that Lamba has written, calling it the true story behind Asaram Bapu’s conviction. The book, titled Gunning for the Godman, will be released on September 5. Lamba, a 2005-batch IPS officer, was posted in Jodhpur East as Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) when the FIR against Asaram was registered in August 2013. After Asaram was pronounced guilty and imprisoned for life in March 2018, Lamba decided to pen the journey that involved difficulties, pressure...

• • • Gujarat HC allows Asaram's jailed son to meet ailing father through video conferencing Gujarat HC allows Asaram’s jailed son to meet ailing father through video conferencing The court, however, passed an order stating that they would be allowed to meet each other through video conferencing from both the jails in August. The Gujarat High Court Saturday dismissed the application filed by Narayan Sai, convicted in a rape case, seeking temporary bail to meet his ailing father, self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is in Jodhpur jail. The court, however, passed an order stating that they would be allowed to meet each other through video conferencing from both the jails in August. Sai was sentenced for life imprisonment in Surat jail after a rape case was filed against him by a former devotee in 2013. Asaram Bapu, who has been imprisoned at the Central jail in Jodhpur, after being convicted in a rape case, has been suffering from various health complications and has also undergone treatment in the AIIMS hospital in Jodhpur and is presently undertaking Ayurveda treatment in the jail. Narayan Sai, in an an application with Gujarat High Court requesting a temporary bail for 20 days to meet his father, had mentioned that he is the only son of his father who is 84 year-old and has been suffering from ill health. Top News Right Now • 68 murdered in Maliana, all accused acquitted 36 years later, residents ask: So who killed our families? • In appeal, Rahul says was mistreated, sent...

Gandhinagar: More than nine years after a former disciple of Sessions court judge DK Soni acquitted six other accused, including Asaram's wife Laxmiben, their daughter, and four disciples who were accused of aiding and abetting the crime, for want of evidence, the prosecution said. Asaram's lawyer said the session court's order will be challenged in the Gujarat High Court. Notably, the victim's younger sister was raped and illegally confined by Asaram's son Narayan Sai. Sai was sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court in Surat in April 2019 in the rape case filed against him by his former disciple in 2013. As per the FIR (First Information Report) registered at Chandkheda police station in Ahmedabad on October 6, 2013, against Asaram Bapu and six others, the self-styled godman had raped the woman disciple, who hailed from Surat, on several occasions from 2001 to 2006 when she was living at his ashram at Motera near Ahmedabad before she managed to escape. A chargesheet was filed in July 2014. "The court convicted Asaram Bapu under sections 376 2 (C) for rape, 377 (unnatural offences), 342 (Wrongful detention), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 357 (assault) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code," said special public prosecutor RC Kodekar. The court is likely to pronounce its order on the quantum of the sentence on Tuesday, he said. The court accepted the prosecution's case against Asaram Bapu but didn't...

AHMEDABAD: A sessions court in Gandhinagar punished Asaram has been serving life term in Jodhpur prison in connection with a Pocso case after he was convicted in 2018. He has been behind the bars since 2013. Additional sessions judge D K Soniawarded life imprisonment for section 376(2) of IPC (rape) and 377 (sodomy) as well. Gujarat court convicts Asaram for rape, sodomy During the trial, special prosecutor R C Kodekar examined 68 witnesses. In his further statement, Asaram termed the rape charges a criminal conspiracy against him.However, the sentences will run concurrently. He has been punished with two years in jail for molestation and different jail terms for illegal detention of rape survivor, for using force to detain her and for criminal intimidation. For these offences, the court has imposed fine of Rs 23,000 on the convict. 01:20 Asaram Bapu Guilty: What is the case against him? Besides, the court has ordered Asaram to pay Rs 50,000 compensation to the rape survivor. The judge punished Asaram with life imprisonment after special public prosecutor R C Kodekar called for exemplary punishment by submitting that looking at his criminal antecedent, he is a habitual offender. On the other hand, Asaram’s advocate pleaded for leniency citing his old age and ill health. Asaram attended the court proceedings through video conferencing facility while sitting in Jodhpur prison. Since the hearing has been in-camera, the court permitted entry in courtroom to only those lawyers ...

A court in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar on Tuesday sentenced self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, convicted in a rape case filed by a former woman disciple in 2013, to life imprisonment. It noted that the victim was younger than his daughter when she was sexually abused and termed it a “very serious crime" against the society that should be punished “to the fullest extent" to prevent the exploitation of religious people. Sessions court judge D K Soni pronounced the ruling after hearing the arguments on the quantum of the sentence. The court also observed Asaram doesn’t deserve sympathy given the nature of the crime and that the defence on the ground of his old age and bad health cannot be considered valid. “To prevent exploitation of religious people of the society, the perpetrators of such a heinous crime cannot be spared and should be punished to the fullest extent as prescribed by law," the judge said in the order. The prosecution had submitted before the court that Asaram should get the strictest punishment for the way he kept the victim captive, raped and sodomised her and forced her to remain confined in the ashram. “The court on Tuesday sentenced Asaram Bapu to life imprisonment under sections 376 (2)(C) for rape and 377 (Unnatural offences) of the Indian Penal Code. He was also ordered to pay Rs 50,000 towards the compensation to the victim. In the remaining sections, he was sentenced to one year in jail under each count and slapped with a nominal fine," said special public pr...

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• In 2013, a 16-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh's Shahajahanpur • The charge-sheet filed against Asaram and four others in the case in November had indicated blackmail in exchange of sexual favours. Asaram was booked under Sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (insult the modesty of any woman) of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO). • In the time that Asaram was in jail, a number of the key witnesses in the case were attacked or went missing. Asaram's doctor Amrut Prajapat was shot in Gujarat's Rajkot in June 2014. His cook Akhil Gupta and another key witness, Kripal Singh, were shot dead in 2015 in Uttar Pradesh. • Mahendra Chawala and Rahul Sachan, two other witnesses, were attacked on the premises of the Jodhpur court in 2015. They survived and went ahead to depose against Asaram. • While still in jail, a Surat-based woman had filed a case of rape and illegal confinement against Asaram and seven others including his son Narayan Sai, wife and daughter, in October 2013. The woman had accused Sai of • The FIR, lodged at Chandkheda police station in Ahmedabad, claimed that Asaram allegedly raped the woman on several occasions from 2001 to 2006 when she was living at his ashram on the outskirts of the city. • In April 2018, Asaram was sentenced to life in prison for raping the 16-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh. In addition to the life term in prison, he was also ...