Supreme Court rejects Asaram Bapu's plea

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea by self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who sought suspension of his sentence, in the rape case of a minor girl, to avail ayurvedic treatment. A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee, V. Ramasubramanian, and Bela M. Trivedi observed that Asaram was convicted in a crime, which is "no ordinary crime at all".

Earlier, the Rajasthan High Court had denied relief to him in the matter and Asaram had moved the top court. The bench told Asaram's counsel that his client will get ayurvedic treatment in jail. "Continuing ayurvedic treatment is not a problem. We'll direct the jail authorities to take care that ayurvedic treatment is granted," it said. (IANS)

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