'We Don't Trust You': Gujarat HC To Rape Convict Narayan Sai Who Sought Interim Bail To Look After Ailing Father Asaram; Plea Withdrawn

“Looking at your history, we don't trust you. The court had (earlier) imposed Rs. 1 lakh on you (for filing a forged medical document in 2022). All the documents on which you are relying should be on affidavit. File a fresh application with all the relevant documents on the affidavit, so that its authenticity can be checked…We don't trust you,” a bench of Justice AS Supehia and Justice Vimal K Vyas orally observed.

The Court was essentially referring to the alleged act of Narayan Sai of producing, before the HC, fake health certificates of his mother to obtain temporary bail in March 2022. The investigation, initiated at HC's instance, had revealed that Sai's accomplice had forged the health certificates, falsely indicating that his mother was on ventilator support at Palmland Hospital.

Sai is currently held in a Surat prison after being convicted for committing multiple instances of sexual assault against a woman at his father's ashram between 2002 and 2005.

Earlier this month, he had moved an interim bail plea on the ground that he wanted to take care of his ailing father, also a rape convict, claiming that he is 'critically ill' and hospitalized. However, considering Narayan's past track record, the High Court expressed its unwillingness to allow his petition.

A court in Gandhinagar last year sentenced Asaram Bapu, also known as Asumal Sirumalani Harpalani, to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of repeatedly raping his ex-disciple, a Surat-based woman, between 2001 and 2007 while she resided at his ashram in Motera, Ahmedabad. He is also serving a life sentence for raping a minor girl at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013.