Asaram Bapu Guilty: What is the case against him?

Asaram Bapu held guilty of raping and sodomising his former devotee who had accused him of sexual abuse a decade ago. A Gandhinagar court held Asaram guilty. This is the second conviction for Asaram. A Jodhpur court had held him guilty in 2018 of raping a minor girl in 2013 and had sentenced him to life imprisonment. Asaram is currently serving that sentence in Jodhpur Central Jail. Asaram was convicted of rape, sodomy, molestation, illegal detention, using force to illegally confine the survivor and criminal intimidation. After Asaram was booked under Pocso charges in Jodhpur and jailed, one of his former devotees turned up in Surat and accused him of raping her at his ashram in Motera between 1997 and 2006. The victim’s younger sister accused Asaram’s son, Narayan Sai, of sexually exploiting her at an ashram in Surat district. Sai, too, was convicted of rape and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Surat court.