A vile spiritual guru forced a girl to have sex with him and raped a "devotee" he was holding as prisoner.
Asaram Bapu, 81, was found guilty of sexually abusing the woman several times between 2001 and 2006, and was sentenced to life in prison.
The 81-year-old was also ordered to pay £228 (23,000 rupees) and £496 (50,000 rupees) in compensation to the victim, who he had raped several times while holding the unnamed woman prisoner for five years.
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Bapu, a self-proclaimed guru, was already serving a life sentence after being convicted of raping a 16-year-old devotee in Rajasthan back in 2018.
The guru, who has millions of followers across India, had raped the 16-year-old as her parents waited outside a room where the pair chanted prayers.
Bapu, who convinced the parents he had "cured" her, threatened the 16-year-old following the grim crime, saying he would kill her if she told anyone.
His latest conviction comes from a case involving a woman who told police back in 2013 that Bapu had held her at his ashram for five years until she managed to make an escape.
The 81-year-old has since been convicted of the woman's rape as well as wrongful detention.
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The unnamed woman came forward to police with information over Bapu's crimes when the 81-year-old guru had already been arrested in a separate sexual assault case.
Two of the self-proclaimed guru's followers had claimed the 81-year-old raped their 16-year-old daughter and that he had forced the teenager to perform sex acts on him.
Bapu, a controversial figure that once claimed Jyoti Singh, who was gang-raped by six men and subsequently died of her injuries was as "guilty as her rapists", received life in prison for his crimes, Daily Mail reported.
The vile 81-year-old said of Singh at the time: "The victim is as guilty as her rapists. She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop."
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