Overview
- Asaram, serving a life term for the 2013 rape of a minor, received six months’ interim bail from a Rajasthan High Court division bench led by Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma.
- He is barred from public gatherings, religious sermons, and meeting followers, and will remain under police supervision for treatment purposes only.
- The fresh relief follows his August 30 surrender after the High Court declined to extend an earlier interim bail, relying on a court‑constituted medical board’s finding that his condition was stable.
- This marks at least the third interim relief in about nine months, after the Supreme Court granted medical bail in January and the Gujarat High Court extended it in March.
- The conviction and life sentence remain unaffected, and he must surrender or seek further legal relief after six months, as victim‑rights advocates question the effect of repeated medical releases on accountability.