Police in Surat have filed a 1,100-page chargesheet against Narayan Sai, the son of controversial godman Asaram, in a rape case on the complaint of a city-based woman.
Section 377, which banned gay relations, also used to be invoked to protect minors against sexual abuse
Ram Chander Chhatrapati, who ran a local daily 'Poora Sacch', was shot a few months after he published an anonymous letter narrating how women were being sexually exploited by Singh at the Dera headquarters in Sirsa.
Justice V B Gupta passed the order on a petition filed by the Centre challenging the lower court's December 13 order in which it had allowed Chandraswami, facing trial in ten Foreign Exchange Regulation Act violation cases, to go abroad.
The godman is very popular in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh because of his spiritual and social works.
Gujarat police on Thursday filed the chargesheet against controversial godman Asaram in the rape case, on the complaint filed by a Surat-based woman.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a Delhi High Court order allowing controversial godman Chandraswami, who is facing prosecution in a dozen criminal case, to go abroad to meet his disciples.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim, head of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, is no regular godman.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea by self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, seeking a direction restraining media from broadcasting stories allegedly projecting him in a bad light, after he was charged with sexual assault of a minor.
In a major breakthrough, one person was on Saturday arrested in connection with the murder of the main witness in Asaram rape case in Shahjahanpur earlier this month.
A petition has been filed by self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and his son Narayan Sai in the Gujarat high court seeking quashing of the complaints of sexual assault filed against them by two Surat-based sisters.
A witness in a rape case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu was shot at and seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Shajanpur district, police said in Bareilly on Saturday.
A key accused and associate of controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu on Wednesday surrendered before a court in Jodhpur.
The father of the 16-year old girl, who has accused Asaram Bapu of sexually assauting her, called off his fast-unto-death in nearby Shahajahanpur district soon after the arrest of the godman in Indore.
The actor's arrest had sparked social media outrage with people calling it an attack on the freedom of speech.
This is a sixth case of attack on a witness in rape cases against Asaram and his son Narayan Sai.
There will not be any change in leadership, said Khattar after submitting a report to Shah on the violence in Haryana.
The high court had passed the restraining order after Ramdev claimed that the book had defamatory content.
A fact-finding committee has been set up by the Press Council of India to look into the attack on media persons by police personnel in Hisar district during clashes that erupted at the ashram of controversial 'godman' Rampal.
There was a blast in the godown next to the house.
Saratchandra wrote when India was under British raj, but his concerns were contemporary.
A key witness in the rape case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who was shot at by unidentified assailants in Shahjahanpur district, succumbed to injuries, the third witness in the case who has been killed.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought to see the "evidence" collected by the Multi- Disciplinary Monitoring Agency set up to probe into the conspiracy angle of Rajiv Gandhi's assassination.
More than two weeks after he was shot at from close range, jailed self-styled godman Asaram's former aide and Ayurveda doctor Amrut Prajapati died in Ahmedabad on Tuesday at his residence.
The Rajasthan high court on Monday extended till September 28 the stay on the notification for shifting the trial in the rape case against Asaram to the central jail premises in Jodhpur and sought the state government's response.
United States Congressman Joseph Crowley has nominated India's Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for the Nobel Peace Prize saying that the godman had helped bring peace to thousands of people through his Art of Living Foundation.
The bail order will be applicable from May 4.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre and the Haryana government on alleged assault by the police on media persons during an operation to arrest 'godman' Rampal in Hisar and sought their response on a plea of some journalists seeking judicial probe into the incident.
Self-styled godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai was on Thursday remanded in 14-day judicial custody by a Surat court in a rape case filed against him by one of the two city-based sisters.
CBI counsel Mohammed Shakeel told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Dudeja that the agency wanted to show the evidence to the court.
Narayan Sai, the son of godman Asaram Bapu, has filed an anticipatory bail plea in a local court in connection with the complaint of sexual assault against him.
Self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a minor, on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court, seeking to restrain the media from carrying out its own trial against him.
California assembly speaker Marvin M Dimally will depose through a videoconference from the Indian consulate in San Francisco.
Father of the teenage girl, who accused self-styled godman Asaram Bapu of sexually assaulting her, on Wednesday alleged that the family has received threats to desist themselves from demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the matter or otherwise they would have to face "dire consequences".
The Bharatiya Janata Party has sought a ban on ashrams run by 'godmen' like Rampal, saying they have become centres of "terror" in the name of faith.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences director to set up a medical board to review medical reports and if required clinically examine self-styled godman Asaram Bapu to ascertain whether interim bail should be granted to him in the Jodhpur rape case.
MSG 2 is a bizarre experience, says Raja Sen.
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