<p>A lawyer from Panipat in Haryana was arrested for allegedly providing logistics to godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai when he was on the run in connection with a rape case before his arrest earlier this month.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Nishant Raj (28) was apprehended yesterday after he was summoned by local police for questioning.<br /><br />"He reached Surat yesterday and was arrested by police in the evening," DCP (Crime) Shobha Bhutada said today.<br /><br />According to police, Raj had assisted Sai "materially and logistically" and also provided the latter with a car.<br /><br />Sai was arrested on December 4 from Delhi-Haryana border after police chased his car, after evading the law for nearly two months in connection with the rape case.<br /><br />Raj was today produced in the court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate who remanded him in judicial custody.<br /><br />Sai, who is accused of repeatedly raping a young woman inmate of Surat ashram between 2002 and 2005, is in police remand till January 1 for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to offer bribe to policemen and even judicial officers to weaken the rape case.<br /><br />Two sisters from Surat had lodged separate complaints against Sai and Asaram, accusing them of rape and illegal confinement, among other charges.<br /><br />Sai was booked under various IPC sections of rape, unnatural sex, molestation, wrongful confinement, unlawful assembly, rioting and criminal intimidation on the complaint of the younger sister.<br /><br />The elder sister, in her complaint against Asaram, had accused him of repeated sexual assaults between 1997 and 2006 when she was residing at his ashram near Ahmedabad.<br /><br />Asaram (72) is currently lodged in a Rajasthan jail in connection with alleged sexual assault of a minor girl at his ashram in Jodhpur.</p>
<p>A lawyer from Panipat in Haryana was arrested for allegedly providing logistics to godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai when he was on the run in connection with a rape case before his arrest earlier this month.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Nishant Raj (28) was apprehended yesterday after he was summoned by local police for questioning.<br /><br />"He reached Surat yesterday and was arrested by police in the evening," DCP (Crime) Shobha Bhutada said today.<br /><br />According to police, Raj had assisted Sai "materially and logistically" and also provided the latter with a car.<br /><br />Sai was arrested on December 4 from Delhi-Haryana border after police chased his car, after evading the law for nearly two months in connection with the rape case.<br /><br />Raj was today produced in the court of a Chief Judicial Magistrate who remanded him in judicial custody.<br /><br />Sai, who is accused of repeatedly raping a young woman inmate of Surat ashram between 2002 and 2005, is in police remand till January 1 for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to offer bribe to policemen and even judicial officers to weaken the rape case.<br /><br />Two sisters from Surat had lodged separate complaints against Sai and Asaram, accusing them of rape and illegal confinement, among other charges.<br /><br />Sai was booked under various IPC sections of rape, unnatural sex, molestation, wrongful confinement, unlawful assembly, rioting and criminal intimidation on the complaint of the younger sister.<br /><br />The elder sister, in her complaint against Asaram, had accused him of repeated sexual assaults between 1997 and 2006 when she was residing at his ashram near Ahmedabad.<br /><br />Asaram (72) is currently lodged in a Rajasthan jail in connection with alleged sexual assault of a minor girl at his ashram in Jodhpur.</p>