Keywords: SC, HC, POCSO
A division bench of the Supreme Court refused to allow bail to Asaram Bapu in a 2013 case against him for raping minor. Asaram had challenged a July 2022 Rajasthan High Court order denying him bail. Today, a division bench of judges Sanjiv Khanna and SVN Bhatti said that Asaram Bapu could approach the High Court with a fresh plea for suspense of judgment if his appeal against conviction by the trial court isn’t heard expeditiously. Consequently, senior Advocate Devadutt Kamath chose to withdraw the solicitation. A lower court doomed Asaram Bapu to life imprisonment in the time 2018 for committing rape against a minor at his Ashram in Jodhpur in 2013. In his appeal against his conviction before the High Court, he claimed that the entire execution case is fake and manufactured, before this time, Supreme Court had set aside the order of the Rajasthan High Court summoning IPS Officer Ajay Pal Lamba to testify as a court substantiation in connection with Asaram Bapu’s appeal querying his conviction for violating a minor. The division bench of judges Sanjiv Khanna and MM Sundresh had also directed the Rajasthan High Court to take up this matter for hearing expeditiously.
Shaikh Rizwan, Government Law College,Mumbai , 2nd, Intering under Legal Vidhiya
