NEW DELHI: The Gujarat excessive court docket on Thursday granted six months' bail to self-styled godman Asaram in a 2013 rape case during which he's serving a life sentence — practically every week after the Rajasthan excessive court docket granted him bail in a separate, related case.A division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and RT Vachhani granted non permanent bail to facilitate his medical therapy, stating orally that the reduction was being prolonged on the identical grounds because the Rajasthan excessive court docket's order.Through the listening to, Asaram's counsel submitted the Rajasthan excessive court docket's order earlier than the Gujarat bench and urged the judges to think about his consumer's medical situation whereas searching for non permanent bail.Opposing the plea, the state counsel argued that the medical services unavailable to Asaram in Jodhpur jail could possibly be offered to him at Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad.The Rajasthan excessive court docket, on October 29, had granted Asaram six months' bail, noting submissions from his counsel that the 84-year-old had been affected by extended sickness and required therapy that would not be adequately offered in jail.Within the Gujarat case, a Gandhinagar court docket had in January 2023 sentenced Asaram to life imprisonment for raping a girl disciple from Surat a number of occasions between 2001 and 2006, whereas she was staying at his Motera ashram close to Ahmedabad.The self-styled godman was convicted beneath a number of sections of the Indian Penal Code, together with 376(2)(C) (rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354 (assault or use of felony power to outrage a girl's modesty), 357 (assault), and 506 (felony intimidation).Asaram can be serving a life sentence in one other case, which can be from 2013, for raping a minor woman at his Rajasthan ashram.(With PTI inputs)
