Gujarat HC permits Asaram’s jailed son to fulfill ailing father by way of video conferencing

The Gujarat High Court Saturday dismissed the appliance filed by Narayan Sai, convicted in a rape case, searching for momentary bail to fulfill his ailing father, self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who’s in Jodhpur jail. The court docket, nonetheless, handed an order stating that they’d be allowed to fulfill one another by way of video conferencing from each the jails in August.
Sai was sentenced for all times imprisonment in Surat jail after a rape case was filed towards him by a former devotee in 2013. Asaram Bapu, who has been imprisoned on the Central jail in Jodhpur, after being convicted in a rape case, has been affected by numerous well being problems and has additionally undergone remedy within the AIIMS hospital in Jodhpur and is presently enterprise Ayurveda remedy within the jail.
Narayan Sai, in an an software with Gujarat High Court requesting a brief bail for 20 days to fulfill his father, had talked about that he’s the one son of his father who’s 84 year-old and has been affected by in poor health well being.

A division bench of the Gujarat High Court of Justices Sonia Gokani and Rajendra M Sareen, in an order said, “…The court cannot be oblivious of the fact that prevalence of Covid-19 virus is receding in the recent past gradually, and the jails which were not opened for the visitors of the jail inmates have gradually opened with all requisite precautions… The father of the present applicant has multiple diseases and those details are quite apparent from the pleadings. In such circumstances, it would be in the fitness of things for the patient father so also for the administration to allow the meeting of the present the applicant with his father through video conference, which is available between the Surat and the Jodhpur jail.”
“Bearing in mind the ill-health of the father of the applicant at Jodhpur Jail let the two meetings take place through video conferencing. Once between father and the son and the second one with father when the Ayurvedic doctor visits him so that if required, he may be allowed 5 to 10 minutes interaction with the doctor for his treatment,” the order additional stated.

The bench directed, “These meetings shall be video recorded as per the protocol of both the jails and the meetings shall not be for less than 30 minutes and not more than 45 minutes.”
Advocate Kishan Dahiya, who was representing Narayan Sai, stated, “…After 7 months, both father and son will see each through video conferencing. Now it is upto the IG prison of Rajasthan and IG prison of Gujarat to decide and fix the date of video conference.”