Asaram's son Narayan Sai held guilty in rape and sexual assault case
Surat, Apr 26 (UNI) A local court in Surat city of Gujarat on Friday held Narayan Sai, the son of self-styled godman Asaram, guilty in a sensational rape case lodged over six years ago by one of the lady disciple of his father.
The Court of sessions judge P Gadhvi, which has also held 4 other co-accused including two women guilty, would announce the quantum of punishment on April 30.
According the the Public Prosecutor, Sai has been held guilty under section 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural sex), 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (Intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 114 (presence of abettor in the crime) of the IPC.
'Former disciples of his father Ganga and Yamuna (both women) and Hanuman and one Rajkumar Malhotra who was driving his car when he was on a run after lodging of the case have also be held guilty,' he said.
He said that Sai can get a punishment from 10 years to life imprisonment for his act depending upon court's view.
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 and sexually assaulted her while both of them were living at Asaram’s ashram. She was living in Asaram Ashram here 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 times between 1997 to 2006. The case is being heard by a court in Gandhinagar.
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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