The lawyer shared two images showing posters promoting Parents Worship Day, featuring photographs of Asaram Bapu. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), he criticised DMRC for allowing a convicted rapist’s images to be displayed in a public space.
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The 81-year-old is currently lodged in a Jodhpur jail, where he is serving life sentence in another case of raping a minor girl at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and M R Shah issued a notice to Narayan Sai on the plea of the Gujarat government challenging the order of the single-judge bench of the High Court.
Special judge Madhusudan Sharma's verdict was read out in the Jodhpur Central Jail where 77-year-old Asaram has been kept for over four years.
Police commissioner Ashok Rathore said the forces have requested the judiciary not to pronounce the judgement in the case from the court as it may lead to clashes between the security forces and the godman's followers in the court premises.
Counsel for the victim, Pramod Kumar Verma, said that they had provided a list of 58 witnesses, of which 44 were examined while the remaining 14 were dropped considering their "irrelevance".
There is clearly only one power that can act against fake godmen, and that is the courts. They should force all governments, whether from the majority or minority religions, to enforce the law.
Arrested religious preacher Asaram Bapu, accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, will be brought here tomorrow, city Police Commissioner Biju George Jospeh said late tonight.
Fresh trouble for self-styled godman Asaram as the Registrar of Companies on Wednesday wrote to the Ministry of Corporate affairs and recommended action against Asaram and his son in the land grab case in Madhya Pradesh.
Self-proclaimed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu has now blamed the media for misquoting his statement about the Delhi gangrape case. He alleged that the media was trying to defame him but he was not afraid of such a slander campaign.
Self-proclaimed godman Asaram Bapu has kicked up a controversy after holding the Delhi braveheart herself responsible for the the barbaric sexual assault on her by a group of six men.