Gujarat Court sentences Asaram's son Narayan Sai to life imprisonment for rape of believer

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Thursday conceded contingent safeguard of three weeks to Narayan Sai, child of self-broadcasted godman Asaram, who has been in the slammer for over a year regarding an assault body of evidence recorded against him by a Surat-based lady. 

Equity Paresh Upadhyay conceded the help to Narayan, who has been held up in a Surat prison since his capture in December 2013, to empower him to take care of his sickly mother Lakshmiben Harpalani. 

The safeguard request will be pertinent from May 4, the judge stated, including Narayan will be under the police surveilence amid the safeguard time frame and state DGP will send an officer for this reason.

Narayan had said in his plea that his mother had been suffering from a spinal cord-related ailement and that doctors at Ahmedabad's Sterling Hospital



had suggested surgery.

The woman had accused Narayan of repeated sexual assault between 2002 and 2005 when she was living at his Surat ashram, following which he was booked under various sections of IPC including rape, unnatural sex, molestation, wrongful confinement etc.

Interestingly, the elder sister of the victim had lodged a separate complaint against Narayan's father Asaram accusing him of repeated sexual assault between 2001 and 2006 when she was living in his ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Lakshmiben was additionally reserved by police for abetment, yet was later allowed safeguard by a neighborhood court in 2013. 

Asaram is at present held up in a Rajasthan correctional facility since his capture in September 2013 for supposedly explicitly attacking a minor young lady at his Jodhpur ashram.