Asaram will get life imprisonment
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The prosecution claimed earlier than the court docket that Asaram was a “routine offender” and sought life imprisonment for the self-styled godman together with a heavy advantageous. Asaram was on Monday convicted in a rape case filed by a former lady disciple in 2013.
The Gandhinagar court docket has additionally ordered Asaram to pay Rs 50,000 to the sufferer, who was his former disciple.
As per the FIR lodged at Chandkheda police station in Ahmedabad, Asaram allegedly raped the girl on a number of events from 2001 to 2006 when she was residing at his ashram on the outskirts of town.
Statements of 68 folks have been registered within the case the place seven, together with Asaram, have been named as accused. Earlier, eight folks have been named as accused however considered one of them later turned witness.
Asaram was charged underneath sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 354A (sexual harassment), 370(4) (trafficking), 376 (rape), 506 (felony intimidation), and 120(B) (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. The quantum of Punishment will likely be introduced tomorrow.
Asaram, who’s at present lodged in Jodhpur jail, was introduced earlier than the Gandhinagar court docket just about. He was arrested in 2013 and has since been in jail.
In 2018, a Jodhpur court docket discovered him responsible of raping a 16-year-old lady at his ashram within the metropolis, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. He was convicted underneath Part 376 of the IPC, the Safety of Youngsters underneath Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act.