Asaram Convicted For Raping 16-12 months-Outdated By Gujarat Court docket: 10 Details

1. In 2013, a 16-year-old lady from Uttar Pradesh’s Shahajahanpur had accused Asaram of raping her at his ashram in Manai village close to Jodhpur on the night time of August 15. He was taken to Jodhpur Central jail the identical month from the place he filed plenty of bail petitions.

2. The charge-sheet filed towards Asaram and 4 others within the case in November had indicated blackmail in trade of sexual favours. Asaram was booked below Sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 376 (rape), 506 (felony intimidation) and 509 (insult the modesty of any lady) of the Indian Penal Code, and Part 8 of the Safety of Youngsters from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).

3. Within the time that Asaram was in jail, plenty of the important thing witnesses within the case have been attacked or went lacking. Asaram’s physician Amrut Prajapat was shot in Gujarat’s Rajkot in June 2014. His cook dinner Akhil Gupta and one other key witness, Kripal Singh, have been shot useless in 2015 in Uttar Pradesh.

4. Mahendra Chawala and Rahul Sachan, two different witnesses, have been attacked on the premises of the Jodhpur court docket in 2015. They survived and went forward to depose towards Asaram.

5. Whereas nonetheless in jail, a Surat-based lady had filed a case of rape and unlawful confinement towards Asaram and 7 others together with his son Narayan Sai, spouse and daughter, in October 2013. The girl had accused Sai of repeated sexual assault when she was dwelling at Asaram’s ashram in Surat.

6. The FIR, lodged at Chandkheda police station in Ahmedabad, claimed that Asaram allegedly raped the girl on a number of events from 2001 to 2006 when she was dwelling at his ashram on the outskirts of the town.

7. In April 2018, Asaram was sentenced to life in jail for raping the 16-year-old lady from Uttar Pradesh. Along with the life time period in jail, he was additionally charged below two different legal guidelines for which he bought one other 20 years in jail.

8. Forward of the pronouncement of the decision, safety had been tightened in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana. The judgement within the case was pronounced contained in the Jodhpur Central Jail for concern of attainable communal violence.

9. Final 12 months, Uttar Pradesh police stepped up safety for the household of the sufferer after her father claimed a risk to his life and that of his relations from the supporters of the self-styled ‘godman’.

10. Asaram has hundreds of followers throughout India with intensive cash and muscle energy.

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