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New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Monday said that the bail application of Asaram Bapu will be heard after a medical test is conducted on the controversial spiritual guru.
The apex court said the bail plea will be hard after after a medical test is performed on Asaram on December 03.
The 72-year-old Asaram, who is currently lodged in Jodhpur jail, was arrested in September last year after a 16-year-old girl lodged a police complaint Aug 20, 2013, accusing him of sexually assaulting her at his ashram in Jodhpur.
In the last hearing, the SC asked the AIIMS to set up a medical board to review the medical papers and reports of Asaram who is suffering from neurological aliment trigeminal neuralgia and whether he required surgery.
While court asked the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to review the medical papers of Asaram, it declined his plea for bail saying that he could make a fresh application for bail after all the material witnesses in the case have testified before the trial court.
It had also asked the Rajasthan government to make available all the medical records of Araram to the AIIMS including those that he may like the medical board to look into.
IANS
