Self-styled godman Asaram was granted bail by the Rajasthan High Court on Monday for presenting a forged RTI reply in the Supreme Court in help of his bail plea. Granting bail to Asaram, Justice Kuldeep Mathur of the excessive court docket’s Jodhpur bench noticed that no direct function was attributed to the petitioner in the creation of the forged RTI reply submitted earlier than the apex court docket and the offences alleged to have been dedicated by him are triable by a Justice of the Peace.
Asaram is already serving a life sentence since 2018, following his conviction in a case of sexual exploitation of a minor scholar of his “gurukul”. The court docket additionally took under consideration that co-accused Ravirai Marwah has already been granted bail and the trial is probably going to go on for lengthy. The case was lodged in opposition to Asaram after Marwah, one in all his sympathisers, submitted the forged RTI reply pertaining to the self-styled godman’s well being situation in the Supreme Court for the aim of his bail in 2016.
The doc was allegedly obtained from a Jodhpur jail via an software filed under the the Right to Information (RTI) Act by one Ganesh Kumar and was supplied to Marwah, who subsequently handed it to Asaram’s lawyer in the apex court docket. On discovering that the doc was forged following an objection by the state authorities, the Supreme Court had directed police to file a case in opposition to Asaram and Marwah regardless of the self-styled godman tendering an apology in the court docket. Asaram’s counsel Gokulesh Bohra mentioned police had arrested Asaram in the case from the Jodhpur jail on a manufacturing warrant and filed a chargesheet in opposition to the 2.Â
“While Marwah has already been granted bail, we also argued in the court that Asaram has already been in judicial custody in another criminal case for the last 10 years and he is not allowed to meet devotees and other visitors in the absence of the jail authorities,” Bohra mentioned. He additional instructed the court docket that the petitioner couldn’t have had any alternative to put together a pretend doc and was solely a signatory to the vakalatnama filed earlier than the Supreme Court for bail.
(With inputs from PTI)
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