2013 Rape Case: Asaram Withdraws Plea For Extension Of Temporary Bail From Gujarat High Court

Asaram, who has been convicted and sentenced to life by Gandhinagar court in a 2013 rape case, withdrew from Gujarat High Court on Friday (June 12) his application seeking extension of temporary bail. 

The counsel appearing for Asaram submitted before a division bench of Justice Gita Gopi and Justice LS Pirzada that the Rajasthan High Court had recently upheld Asaram's conviction and life sentence in a separate rape case and he is presently in jail in Jodhpur

"Under instructions I may be permitted to withdraw the application for extension of temporary bail," the counsel said. 

The court thereafter permitted the withdrawal.

On April 30 the high court had extended Asaram's temporary bail till June 15. For context, the high court had suspended his sentence and granted him six month temporary bail on medical ground on November 6, 2025. Thereafter Asaram moved an application for extension of temporary bail.

On May 27 the Rajasthan High Court had upheld an order convicting and sentencing Asaram to life imprisonment for sexually harassing and raping a minor in his Jodhpur Ashram in 2013, while setting aside his conviction for gang rape and aggravated penetrative sexual assault.

In doing so the court rejected Asaram's argument that the trial was vitiated by media propoganda. The court also remarked that it cannot grant any indulgence to Asaram over his age as it cannot ignore the survivor's voice, who "carries an erasure, of her dignity, of her identity, of the self she was before the moment which not only completely destroyed but cleaved her life into a before and an after".

Case title: ASHARAM v/s STATE OF GUJARAT & ANR.

CR.MA/1/2026 IN R/CR.A/607/2023