Jodhpur, Oct 29 (UNI): The Rajasthan High Court Wednesday granted a six-month interim bail to rape case convict Asaram Bapu.

The High Court division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Sangeeta Sharma granted him interim bail on medical grounds.

Senior Advocate from Delhi Devdutt Kamath appeared for the convict while Additional Advocate General Deepak Chaudhary pleaded for the Rajasthan government.

Asaram is a convict in a 2013 case of rape on a minor girl, a student of his ashram’s school. He is serving life imprisonment in the case and has been in Jodhpur jail for the past 12 years.

After 12 years of imprisonment, in January this year he was granted, for the first time, an interim bail for medical treatment by the Supreme Court and the Rajasthan

See Full Page