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By India Today Web Desk: Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman and rape convict Asaram Bapu, has been awarded life imprisonment in a rape case filed against him by a former woman devotee in 2013. Narayan Sai was convicted on Friday by a Surat court. Apart from life imprisonment, Narayan Sai has also been fined Rs one lakh. The other four convicts have been sentenced to 10-year jail and fined Rs 5,000, each. Narayan Sai was convicted under Indian Penal Code Sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 323 (assault), 506-2 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (conspiracy). Narayan Sai's aides--Dharmishtha alia Ganga, Bhavna alias Jamuna and Pavan alias Hanuman--were held guilty for being part of a conspiracy. Sai's driver Rajkumar alias Ramesh Malhotra was held guilty under IPC Section 212 (harbouring an offender). Ganga and Jamuna, also called "sadhika" (women disciples), were accused of putting the victim in illegal confinement and thrashing her at Sai's behest. They were also accused of trying to brainwash her into agreeing to have a relationship with Sai. Hanuman, a loyal "sadhak" (disciple) of Sai, was accused of abetment, including taking the victim to Sai's room. The elder sister accused Asaram of sexual assaults between 1997 and 2006 when she lived at his Ahmedabad ashram. The younger sister accused Narayan Sai of sexual assaults when she lived at Asaram's ashram in Jahangirpura area of Surat between 2002 and 2005. Narayan Sai was arrested from Delhi-Haryana border i...

• • • From defending Advani to Asaram Bapu: A look at Ram Jethmalani's notable cases From defending Advani to Asaram Bapu: A look at Ram Jethmalani’s notable cases When asked why he would want to represent Asaram, Jethmalani had said, "My practice is of a different kind from other lawyers. I make tons of money at the bar, but I do it from 10% of my clients. Bapu is in the 10%." Senior Advocate Ram Jethmalani at the Tees Hazari court. (Express photo by Prem Nath Pandey) Noted criminal lawyer and former law minister Ram Jethmalani passed away on Sunday at the age of 95. He breathed his last around 7.45 am at his residence in New Delhi. Jethmalani rose to become one of the most successful civil and criminal advocates in the country by taking up several politically sensitive cases. He represented those accused of killing former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Harshad Mehta in the stock market scam, L K Advani in the Hawala scandal, Amit Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case among others. Here are some of his notable cases Nanavati vs State of Maharashtra In 1959, Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati, a Naval Commander, was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja, his wife’s lover, in what is a historic case in the annals of the judiciary. Ram Jethmalani led the prosecution. The High Court agreed with the prosecution’s argument that the murder was premeditated and sentenced Nanavati to life imprisonment for culpable homicide amounting to murder. On November 24, 1961, the Supreme Co...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the order of the Gujarat high court granting a 14-day furlough to rape convict Narayan Sai, son of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and BV Nagarathna allowed the appeal of the Gujarat government challenging the June 24 order of the high court granting furlough to Sai. Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and his son Narayan Sai are both accused of sexual assault. Sai was convicted in a rape case by a Surat court in April 2019 on a complaint by two women that they were raped between 2002 and 2005 at a Surat ashram run by him and his father.(PTI) The top court said that furlough is not an absolute right and it depends on various factors. It said the jail superintendent has given a negative opinion for a grant of furlough to Sai as a mobile phone was found from his cell. On August 12, the top court had stayed the Gujarat high court order giving two-week furlough to Sai. The top court had issued a notice to Sai on the Gujarat government's plea challenging the high court's single-judge order of June 24 and stayed it till further orders. It had said that the proviso to Rule 3(2) of the Bombay Furlough and Parole Rules 1959, provides that a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment may be released on furlough “every year” after he completes seven years actual imprisonment. The single-judge bench of the high court ordered the release of Sai on furlough for two weeks on June 24, 2021, but the division bench had stay...

• • • Gujarat HC allows Asaram's jailed son to meet ailing father through video conferencing Gujarat HC allows Asaram’s jailed son to meet ailing father through video conferencing The court, however, passed an order stating that they would be allowed to meet each other through video conferencing from both the jails in August. The Gujarat High Court Saturday dismissed the application filed by Narayan Sai, convicted in a rape case, seeking temporary bail to meet his ailing father, self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is in Jodhpur jail. The court, however, passed an order stating that they would be allowed to meet each other through video conferencing from both the jails in August. Sai was sentenced for life imprisonment in Surat jail after a rape case was filed against him by a former devotee in 2013. Asaram Bapu, who has been imprisoned at the Central jail in Jodhpur, after being convicted in a rape case, has been suffering from various health complications and has also undergone treatment in the AIIMS hospital in Jodhpur and is presently undertaking Ayurveda treatment in the jail. Narayan Sai, in an an application with Gujarat High Court requesting a temporary bail for 20 days to meet his father, had mentioned that he is the only son of his father who is 84 year-old and has been suffering from ill health. Top News Right Now • 68 murdered in Maliana, all accused acquitted 36 years later, residents ask: So who killed our families? • In appeal, Rahul says was mistreated, sent...

Ahmedabad: A fresh case of sexual assault has been registered against spiritual leader Asaram Bapu, who is in jail on similar charges. The complaint lodged by two sisters in Surat also names Asaram's son Narayan Sai. The elder of the two sisters has alleged in her complaint that she was raped by Asaram at his Ahmedabad ashram; the younger sister has accused Narayan Sai of raping her in Surat. They say they are Asaram's followers and the incidents took place between 2002 and 2004. The complaint against Narayan Sai has been registered at Jhangirpura police station in Surat, while the one against his father Asaram has been transferred to Ahmedabad as the alleged incident happened there, Surat Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana said. Asaram, 75, was arrested in August on charges of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl and has been in prison in Jodhpur in Rajasthan since then. Shilpi, one of his key aides and the warden of Asaram's 'ashram' in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh where the alleged sexual assault took place, too has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. In court, investigators alleged that the spiritual leader has paedophilia. But Asaram's famous lawyer, Ram Jethmalani, alleged that the teen complainant is not under-age or younger than 18, and that she made up the charges because she likes to spend time online and watch movies and was restricted in both activities at the boarding school where she was enrolled at one of Asaram Bapu's ashrams in Madhya Pradesh.