Twice-Convicted Rapist Asaram Accused of Misusing Medical Bail, Survivor Seeks Immediate Jail
Convicted Godman Asaram caught travelling India despite claiming deadly illness.
The teenage girl whom Asaram raped inside his Jodhpur ashram in 2013 has personally knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court with a chilling application: cancel the rapist godman’s bail and send him back to jail immediately, because the “critically ill” convict is actually travelling across the country like a free man.
Through Senior Advocate Aljo K Joseph, the survivor has submitted photographic and documentary evidence showing that the 86-year-old self-styled preacher has visited Ahmedabad, Indore, Rishikesh, several locations in Maharashtra and other cities after securing successive medical bails from the Rajasthan High Court on October 29 and the Gujarat High Court on November 6 — journeys that directly mock the claim of life-threatening illness used to obtain his release.
The plea exposes a shocking contradiction: a medical board constituted by the Rajasthan High Court itself examined Asaram in August and declared him “clinically stable” with no requirement for hospital admission, yet both High Courts granted him six months’ relief, allowing him to stay out of prison and receive only leisurely Ayurvedic treatment at an ashram in Jodhpur instead of serving the remainder of his life sentence.
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The victim has accused Asaram of converting medical bail into a permanent getaway, pointing out that he has never been admitted to any hospital for prolonged treatment despite repeated claims of severe heart disease and other ailments; instead, he has used every bail order to move freely, meet followers and live in comfort while his victim continues to fight for justice more than twelve years after the crime.
Asaram was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Jodhpur court in April 2018 for raping the minor and to another 20 years by a Gujarat court for raping two sisters in Surat; with public anger boiling over repeated bail grants, the survivor’s bold intervention has now forced the Supreme Court to decide whether a twice-convicted child rapist can continue exploiting medical grounds to stay out of prison indefinitely.
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