Asaram Bapu in court (PTI photo)
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today declined to stop the media from reporting on the Asaram Bapu case.
In a plea, the spiritual leader had asked the court to restrain the media from carrying speculative reports about him, his family and his ashrams in the wake of rape allegations against him.
The court said it will hear the matter on October 21.
Senior counsel Vikas Singh, in a mention before a bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, said that there was no objection to media correctly reporting the court proceedings but it should be restrained from carrying speculative reports portraying his ashrams as some kind of brothels.
There were 10,000 boys and girls studying in the ashrams of his client and the media reports were adversely affecting them, counsel said.
Asaram, 75, was arrested in August on charges of sexually assaulting a minor girl and has been in prison at Jodhpur in Rajasthan since then.
In a plea, the spiritual leader had asked the court to restrain the media from carrying speculative reports about him, his family and his ashrams in the wake of rape allegations against him.
The court said it will hear the matter on October 21.
Senior counsel Vikas Singh, in a mention before a bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam, said that there was no objection to media correctly reporting the court proceedings but it should be restrained from carrying speculative reports portraying his ashrams as some kind of brothels.
There were 10,000 boys and girls studying in the ashrams of his client and the media reports were adversely affecting them, counsel said.
Asaram, 75, was arrested in August on charges of sexually assaulting a minor girl and has been in prison at Jodhpur in Rajasthan since then.
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