The bail extension was granted so Asaram’s lawyer may submit the mandatory paperwork in his plea. The matter has been saved for additional listening to on July 2.
The short-term bail granted to Asaram by Gujarat High Court on March 28 this yr is ready to run out on June 30.(PTI)
The division bench of Justices Ilesh Vora and Sandeep Bhatt prolonged Asaram’s short-term bail, granted on March 28 initially for 3 months, throughout the listening to of the plea. Asaram (86) is on bail on medical grounds. The extension was granted in order that his lawyer may submit the mandatory paperwork in his plea, and the matter has been saved for additional listening to on July 2. Notably, the short-term bail granted by Gujarat High Court on March 28 this yr is ready to run out on June 30.
In his submission, Asaram’s lawyer sought an extension of some days to submit paperwork, claiming that after the court docket granted short-term bail on March 28, 10 days had been wasted because of the process to get orders from the Jodhpur High Court, and he was launched on April 7.
“So I request for two days so that if the matter is kept on Monday, I can place the document on record, and even they (respondents) can verify. Then on Monday, in any case, I have to surrender, so lordships may give me one or two days till the matter is pending,” he stated.
The court docket, in its order, acknowledged that contemplating “the peculiar facts of the present case, more particularly, the process of getting the certificate from NALSA (National Legal Services Authority), which according to submission is underway, we are inclined to extend the temporary bail till July 7”.
The excessive court docket on March 28 granted short-term bail for 3 months to Asaram because the interim bail granted to him earlier by the Supreme Court was to run out on March 31. A division bench of the excessive court docket then delivered a cut up verdict, after which a 3rd choose, to whom the matter was referred, dominated in favour of granting him three-month short-term bail. In January 2023, a court docket in Gandhinagar sentenced Asaram in a rape case to life imprisonment. Asaram can be serving a life sentence in one other case of raping a minor lady at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013.
In the current case, he was convicted for raping a girl disciple, who hailed from Surat, on a number of events from 2001 to 2006 when she was dwelling at his ashram at Motera close to Ahmedabad.
He was convicted beneath Indian Penal Code sections 376 2 (C) (rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 342 (wrongful detention), 354 (assault or legal pressure to lady with intent to outrage her modesty), 357 (assault) and 506 (legal intimidation).
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