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Asaram bail: The Gujarat High Court on Friday (June 27) gave a big relief to Asaram in the 2013 rape case. His temporary bail extended till 7 July. In this case, he is serving a sentence of life imprisonment.
A division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and Sandeep Bhatt extended the temporary bail of Asaram from three months during the hearing of the petition, which was earlier given on 28 March. Its duration is ending on 30 June.
What did the lawyer say?
Asaram (86) is on bail on health basis. The bail period has been extended so that his lawyer can submit the necessary documents in the petition. The next hearing on the case will be held on July 2.
Asaram’s counsel, while demanding a few days’ deferment to submit the documents, claimed that 10 days were wasted due to the process of getting the order from the Jodhpur High Court after the court was given temporary bail on March 28 and Asaram was released on April 7.
He said, “So I request to give two days time so that if the matter is heard on Monday, I can keep the documents on record and they (defendants) can also verify it.”
What did the court say?
The court said in its order that “Keeping in mind the process of obtaining a certificate from the specific facts of the current case, especially Nalsa (National Legal Services Authority), we are extending temporary bail till July 7.”
On March 28, the High Court granted Asaram temporary bail for three months as the interim bail given to him by the Supreme Court was ending on 31 March. A division bench of the High Court had given a divided verdict after which the case was sent to the third judge, who ruled in favor of giving Asaram a three -month temporary bail.
In January 2023, a court in Gandhinagar sentenced Asaram to life imprisonment in the rape case. Asaram is also serving a life sentence in another case of sexual abuse of a minor girl in his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013. In the current case, she was convicted of raping a female follower from Surat several times between 2001 and 2006.
Input by: PTI-language