The Gujarat High Court on Thursday granted six months’ interim bail to self-styled godman Asaram Bapu on medical grounds in connection with a 2013 rape case registered in Gandhinagar, while making it clear that his convictions and life sentences in the cases against him remain intact.

A division bench of Justices Ilesh J Vora and R T Vachhani observed that the relief was strictly limited to medical treatment. The court noted that the Rajasthan High Court had earlier suspended Asaram’s sentence in a separate Jodhpur case on similar medical grounds.

Asaram Bapu, serving life imprisonment in two separate rape cases, was convicted by a Jodhpur court in April 2018 for raping a minor at his ashram in 2013, and later by a Gujarat court in 2023 for sexually assaulting another woman devotee in 20

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