{"id":309663,"date":"2019-02-21T08:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309663"},"modified":"2019-02-21T08:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T08:01:01","slug":"jodhpur-court-rejects-interim-bail-application-of-rape-convict-asaram-bapu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jodhpur-court-rejects-interim-bail-application-of-rape-convict-asaram-bapu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodhpur court rejects interim bail application of rape convict Asaram Bapu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309664 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/asaram-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/asaram-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/asaram.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Jodhpur court on Thursday rejected the interim bail application of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is serving a life term sentence in the Jodhpur central jail for raping a minor girl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Rajasthan Police had arrested Asaram Bapu in August 2013 for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl at his ashram. The verdict was delivered inside the premises of Jodhpur Central Jail, where Asaram was lodged, reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victim, who was a student at Asaram\u2019s ashram when the incident took place, had accused the self-styled godman of raping her at his Jodhpur ashram. The minor girl and her family members had registered a case against Asaram with the Delhi Police, but the case was later handed over to the Jodhpur Police.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jodhpur court on Thursday rejected the interim bail application of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. He is serving a life term sentence in the Jodhpur central jail for raping a minor girl. The Rajasthan Police had arrested Asaram Bapu in August 2013 for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl at his ashram. The verdict was delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2560,2014],"tags":[1259,963],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309665,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309663\/revisions\/309665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}