Father Of Rape Survivor Opposes Godman Asaram's Bail In Top Court

The father of a child rape-victim has moved the Supreme Court opposing the bail plea of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu.

Apprehending threat to the life of family members, father of a child rape-victim has moved the Supreme Court on Thursday opposing the bail plea of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. The application for intervention has been filed in the pending petition of Asaram in which he has sought suspension of his sentence and interim bail to undergo treatment for various ailments at an ayurvedic centre near Haridwar in Uttarakhand. A Jodhpur court, on April 25, 2018, had sentenced Asaram to life in prison after finding him guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ashram (hermitage) in 2013. "It is humbly submitted that the petitioner (Asaram) is highly influential and politically connected and has a force of millions of blind followers around the country, and also a hired killer Kartik Haldar who killed and attacked eyewitnesses, confessed to the Police that Petitioner ordered the killings," the father of rape survivor said in the application.