Asaram case hearing begins today
January 10, 2014  09:06
A Jodhopur court will today begin hearing arguments in the rape case controversial godman Asaram Bapu.

Judge Manoj Kumar Vyas court had on Thursday ordered the beginning of arguments from Friday after the prosecution moved an
application under section 211 of the CrPC, pleading the court to read out the charges on the accused without arguments. 

"There have been 16 hearings in the court after the court took cognisance of the charge sheet, but the defence has been constantly evading the arguments on charges on one ground or the other," Public Prosecutor R L Meena said. 

He said, "When we appeared in court today, the defence sought time until the revision petition filed by prosecution in High Court against an order of the lower court to provide the defence with the recording of the statements of the victim and spot of incident was decided. 

"When court asked us, we expressed our intention to begin the charge arguments with immediate effect," Meena said. 

Upon this, the court allowed the prosecution to begin the charge arguments from Friday.
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