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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 ...

Now in police custody for the alleged sexual assault of a minor girl, self-styled godman Asaram Bapu is said to control an empire worth Rs 5,000 crore with a fan following of 2 crore people across the world. Here is everything you didn't know about Asaram Harpalani, better known as Asaram Bapu. Previous cases against him range from land-grab to assault. Asaram Bapu case: Lawyer claims victim's family being threatened Asaram seeking woman therapist in jail? No clue, say lawyers In The Indian Express details complaints against the godman ranging from encroaching upon land, compromising on quality in his Ayurveda products to the quiet dispatching of girls into the ‘Gyan Ki Kutiya” in his ashrams. According to the report, Asaram faces land grab charges in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and elsewhere. There are also a series of land grab allegations against the godman, mostly regarding land occupied by his ashrams. In fact, in 2009, the Gujarat state government told the state legislative assembly that one of his ashrams had encroached upon 67,099 square metres of land in Ahmedabad. A large number of political figures are followers of the godman. PTI “Until his arrest, Asaram enjoyed VVIP status at airports; he would not be frisked and would drive straight to the aircraft. After the allegation of sexual assault, he reportedly moved around with muscle men. His disciples and Asaram himself have been known to assault people,” the report says. Before the current scandal broke, A...

• 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 ...

By Saurabh Vaktania, Gopi Maniar Ghanghar : A Gujarat court on Monday convicted self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in connection with a decade-old sexual assault case. Asaram Bapu was accused by a Surat-based woman of repeatedly raping her while she was at his ashram in Ahmedabad's Motera around 10 years ago. The Gandhinagar sessions court, which convicted Asaram Bapu today, will pronounce the punishment in the case on Tuesday. Asaram Bapu was charged under sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 354A (sexual harassment), 370(4) (trafficking), 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. Asaram's son Narayan Sai was an accused in the case as well. Asaram's wife Lakshmi, daughter Bharati, and four female followers -- Dhruvben, Nirmala, Jassi and Meera -- were also accused in the case. All of them were acquitted by the Gandhinagar court. ASARAM BAPU IN JAIL Asaram Bapu is currently lodged in a jail in Jodhpur. In 2018, a trial court in Jodhpur convicted him in a separate sexual assault case and sentenced him to jail. He was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl in his Jodhpur ashram in 2013. At the time, the 77-year-old godman was convicted under Section 376 of the IPC, the Protection of Children under Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act. Asaram was arrested from Indore in August, 2013 and brought to Jodhpur in September, 2013.