Asaram's trial has been a virtual ‘who’s who’ in the legal industry, with costliest lawyers such as Ram Jethmalani, Salman Khurshid & UU Lalit coming to the guru’s defence.
The deceased, a resident of Bimaur village, was reported missing Thursday. After the victim's family filed a missing complaint, a team was deployed to investigate the matter, the ASP said.
The top court posted the matter for further hearing after two weeks. Sai, who is also a self-styled godman, is serving life sentence in a rape case filed by a former devotee.
Asaram Bapu had earlier sought the suspension of his jail term for 2 months saying he needed to get holistic treatment of his multiple ailments at a medical centre near Haridwar.
Asaram Bapu's followers call for boycott of Rajat Sharma's 'Aap ki Adalat' as show guest Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was critical of 'godmen' accused of sexual assault.
Ushinor Majumdar in his book 'God of Sin' traces the empire of Asaram Bapu and his son Narayan Sai, shedding light on everything wrong with self-styled godmen.
The Supreme Court bench dismissed Asaram Bapu's bail plea and said the lower court will proceed with the trial in a sexual assault case lodged against him in Gujarat.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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