Supreme Court asks Asaram to move High Court for relief

New Delhi, March 1

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain rape convict Asaram for suspension of life sentence in view of his deteriorating health condition.

In 2018, he was convicted by the special POCSO court in Jodhpur of raping a teenager and sentenced to imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life. He has been in custody since September 2, 2013, after being arrested in Indore and brought to Jodhpur for raping a girl in his ashram that year. A Bench led by Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing Asaram, to move the Rajasthan HC for relief after he said the convict was willing to accept the public prosecutor’s statement that he could receive treatment at Madhavbaug Heart Hospital in Maharashtra’s Khopoli in police custody.