Tag: Asaram

  Jodhpur: Self-styled godman Asaram was sentenced to life imprisonment today by Jodhpur Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Court in a rape case. Asaram was convicted for raping a minor girl in his ashram at Manai village near Jodhpur in 2013. Judge Madhusudhan Sharma of the court of SC/ST cases also convicted two other accused Shilpi […]

New Delhi:  As self-styled godman Asaram was on Wednesday sentenced for life for raping a minor girl, the Congress party posted a video on Twitter, showing him with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “‘A man is known by the company he keeps’ – Aesop’s fables #AsaramVerdict,” tweeted the party attaching the video. The video shows Modi […]

  Jodhpur: A purported audio clip of Asaram, serving his life-in-prison term at a Jodhpur jail, has surfaced online in which the self-styled godman is heard telling a person over phone that his time behind bars is ephemeral and “good days will come”. According to Jodhpur Central Jail DIG Vikram Singh, the 15-minute audio clip […]

  Jodhpur: During the trial of self-styled godman Asaram, a prosecution witnesss had deposed to the court that the the former believed sexual exploitation of girls is not a sin for ‘Brahmgyani’ or a highly enlightened person. Asaram also used to take medicines to increase sexual prowess, said prosecution witness Rahul K Sachar, an Asaram’s […]

The Gujarat High Court today rejected the bail application of incarcerated self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in a rape case

Panipat: The main eyewitness in the sexual assault case related to Narayan Sai, the son of controversial godman Asaram Bapu was shot at by unidentified assailants in Haryana on today, police said. Mahender Chawla was shot at outside his house in Sanouli village in Panipat district, 170 km from Chandigarh, and two bullets hit him […]

Surat: The Surat Sessions Court on Friday pronounced Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman Asaram, guilty in a 2013 rape case. The quantum of sentence will be announced on April 30. Narayan Sai, 40, was arrested from Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra in December 2013 after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against him and […]

Gandhinagar: The Justice D K Trivedi Commission which probed the death of two children who studied at a residential school run by godman Asaram in July 2008 has given a clean chit to him and his son Narayan Sai. The commission’s report, submitted to the state government in 2013, was tabled in the Gujarat Assembly […]

Jodhpur: The Jodhpur High Court on Monday dismissed self-styled godman Asaram’s plea for suspension of sentence in a rape case after it was withdrawn as not pressed. “We decided to ‘not press’ the application for suspension of sentence after brief arguments,” said Pradeep Choudhary, counsel for Asaram. However, a division bench of justices Sandeep Mehta […]