Two-week furlough was granted to Narayan Sai who was convicted of rape.
The Supreme Court on Thursday assures the release of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu’s son Narayan Sai on a two-week furlough granted by the Gujarat High Court on June 24.
The furlough was to take effect from Friday as the High Court had stayed till then the operation of its own order.
The Court while issuing notice on an appeal filed by the Gujarat government challenging the HC order, also agreed to examine whether the release of convicts under the Bombay Furlough and Parole Rules 1959 (applicable to Gujarat) and the provision of furlough for life convicts “every year” referred to a calendar year or the duration of a year after the last release on furlough.
Sai was convicted in a rape case by a Surat court in April 2019 on a complaint by two women that they were raped between 2002 and 2005 at a Surat ashram run by him and his father Asaram Bapu. The trial court sentenced him to life under Section 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 323 (assault), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
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