Asaram Bapu Age, Wife, Family, Children, Biography & More StarsUnfolded

Publish date: 2024-05-17
• In 1959, his name surfaced in a murder case, which he allegedly did under the influence of alcohol but was bailed due to lack of evidence.

• In 2000, locals at Bhairavi village of Navsari district filed a complaint against him for encroaching 6 acres of land in addition to 10 acres of the area allocated by the Gujarat Government.

• In 2001, after a Satsang (spiritual discourse), the Yoga Vedanta Samiti of his Ashram didn't vacate the premises (100 acres valued at over Rs. 7 billion) of the Mangalya Temple, Madhya Pradesh.

• In 2002, his followers forged all the land of a Rajokri-based devotee Bhagwani Devi after convincing her to donate some part of her property to the Asharam's trust.

• In 2008, after the mysterious death of four boys at Motera Ashram (Ahmedabad), the local public filed an allegation against him for practicing black magic there and protested him strongly.

• In Bhilwara (Mewar, Rajasthan), once the Nashik Municipal Corporation destroyed some part of his ashram for illegal possession of the Government land.

• Once, the Bihar State Religious Trust in Patna filed a court case against his Asharam for grabbing a piece of land.

• On 8 January 2010, his illegal possession of 67,059 square metres of land in the of land in the Ahmedabad ashram was taken over by the Gujarat Government.

• Once, his disciples Satya Narayan Dhoot and Bhanwar Lal Soni filed a court case against him for encroaching their lands in Rajasthan.

• In September 2012, he was backlashed for slapping a video journalist during his discourse in Ghaziabad.

• In May 2013, the Municipal Corporation of Cuttack demolished his ashram, which was illegally built there.

• In September 2013, the father of the sexually assaulted girl by Asaram; submitted the audio clippings of the death threats made by his followers against him, to the court.

• In September 2013, a illegal encroachment by Asaram's ashram in Nashik was removed by The Nashik Municipal Corporation.

• In 2014, the local authorities demolished an illegally built ashram of Asaram in Chowkitaal in Bhedhaghat.

• On 11 January 2015, Asaram was accused for murdering Akhil Gupta, who was the prime witness of the Surat rape case.

• On 25 April 2018, a Jodhpur Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe Court sentenced Asaram to life imprisonment, and the other two accused (Shilpi and Sharad) were sentenced to 20-years for raping a 16-year-old girl from Shahajahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Judge Madhusudan Sharma pronounced the verdict inside the Jodhpur Central Jail.
Asaram Bapu outside Jodhpur Court

• In 2020, the Samba district administration demolished an illegally constructed Asaram's ashram at at Raie village in Ghagwal area of Samba district.

• On 30 January 2023, a local court in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, convicted him of rape. However, his son Narayan Sai, his wife Lakshmi, daughter Bharti, and four female followers, who were also accused in the case, were acquitted by the court. 10 years ago, a woman from Surat accused him of repeatedly raping her when she visited his ashram in Ahmedabad. On 31 January 2023, Gandhinagar sessions court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection with this 2013 rape case and also imposed a fine of Rs. 50,000 on him.

• On 1 May 2023, the Rajasthan High Court granted him bail in connection with presenting false documents in the Supreme Court; however, he could not come out of jail as he was convicted in other cases.

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