Yesterday, Rajasthan High Court granted bail to Asaram in a case pertaining to furnishing a forged RTI reply in the Supreme Court in support of his bail plea.

The bench headed by Justice Kuldeep Mathur of the high court's Jodhpur bench observed that "no direct role was attributed to the petitioner in the creation of the forged RTI reply submitted before the apex court" 

The court further noted that offences alleged to have been committed by him are triable by a magistrate. The court also took into account that the second accused Ravirai Marwah has already been granted bail and the trial is likely to go on for long.

During the hearing, Justice Kuldeep Mathur approved the bail, based on Asaram's counsel's argument that the medical certificates submitted in the Supreme Court were not sent by Asaram himself, as he was already imprisoned at the time. 

The case was lodged against Asaram after Marwah, one of his sympathisers, submitted the forged RTI reply pertaining to the self-styled godman's health condition in the Supreme Court for the purpose of his bail in 2016.

The document was allegedly obtained from a Jodhpur jail through an application filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by one Ganesh Kumar and was provided to Marwah, who subsequently handed it to Asaram's lawyer in the apex court.

On January 18, Asaram was produced before the CJM Metro Court in connection with the case. The charges against him were pronounced in court, after which his lawyer filed a bail petition in the High Court. T