The Gujarat High Court on Thursday granted self-styled godman Asaram Bapu six months of interim bail on medical grounds in connection with a 2013 rape case. The court noted that the Rajasthan High Court had earlier suspended his sentence in a separate Jodhpur case for similar health-related reasons.

A division bench comprising Justices Ilesh J Vora and R T Vachhani clarified that the relief was being granted strictly for medical treatment and that Asaram’s convictions and life sentences will continue to remain in effect, Hindustan Times reported.

Asaram Bapu was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jodhpur court in April 2018 for the rape of a minor at his ashram in 2013. In 2023, a Gujarat court handed him another life term in a separate rape case filed in Gandhinagar the same year. He a

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