Asaram’s son, Narayan Sai held guilty in rape case by a Gujarat court

Surat: A local court in Surat city of Gujarat today held Narayan Sai, the son of self-styled godman Asaram, guilty in a rape case lodged over six years ago by one of the lady disciple.

The Court would announce the quantum of punishment on April 30.

Narayan Sai (40) was arrested from Pipli near Haryana’s Kurukshetra in December 2013 after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against him and his father Asaram in October that year In Jahangirpura police station here. The younger sister had alleged that Sai had repeatedly raped her while both of them were living at Asaram’s ashram in Surat between 2002 and 2005.

The case against Asaram by the elder sister was transferred to Ahmedabad as the place of occurrence in her case was Ahmedabad Ashram of Asaram situation in Motera area of the city. She had accused Asaram of raping her several time between 1997 to 2006.

Sai was lodged in the central jail in Lajpore here since his arrest in 2013. He was on a run for almost two months after the filing of the case. Sai was also made accused in a sensational bribery case involving policemen to weaken the cases against him and his father. In September last year his estranged wife Janki had lodged a complaint of harassment against him and Asaram in a police station in neighbouring Rajashtan. She had alleged that he had also married to one of his disciples.

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