Self-styled godman Asaram has moved a Gujarat court for bail on grounds of delay in filing of the first information report in connection with the sexual assault case lodged by two Surat-based sisters against him and son Narayan Sai.
Fresh sexual assault complaints have been registered against controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu and his son Narayan Sai in Surat after two sisters accused the duo of abusing them.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed the plea of controversial godman Chandraswami alias Nemi Chand Jain, who is facing prosecution in twelve Foreign Exchange Regulation Act cases, to travel abroad. A bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul dismissed the Enforcement Directorate's plea that the accused, if permitted to go abroad, may not come back to face trial in the country. Allowing Chandraswami's plea to visit the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Mauritius.
Section 377, which banned gay relations, also used to be invoked to protect minors against sexual abuse
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.
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.
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.
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 sisters, based in Surat, had alleged they were raped and illegally confined by Asaram and his son Narayan Sai.
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.
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.
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.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim, head of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect, is no regular godman.
A key accused and associate of controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu on Wednesday surrendered before a court in Jodhpur.
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.
The godman is very popular in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh because of his spiritual and social works.
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.
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.
There was a blast in the godown next to the house.
This is a sixth case of attack on a witness in rape cases against Asaram and his son Narayan Sai.
The actor's arrest had sparked social media outrage with people calling it an attack on the freedom of speech.
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.
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.
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.
There will not be any change in leadership, said Khattar after submitting a report to Shah on the violence in Haryana.
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.
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 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.
CBI counsel Mohammed Shakeel told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravinder Dudeja that the agency wanted to show the evidence to the court.
Saratchandra wrote when India was under British raj, but his concerns were contemporary.
The high court had passed the restraining order after Ramdev claimed that the book had defamatory content.
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.
The bail order will be applicable from May 4.
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.
California assembly speaker Marvin M Dimally will depose through a videoconference from the Indian consulate in San Francisco.
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.
