A Delhi court, while hearing the bail plea of self-styled godman Chaitanyananda Saraswati on Monday, observed that the gravity of the offence increased multi-fold because of the number of victims.

Saraswati is in judicial custody in a case, in which he is accused of molesting 17 women students.

Additional Sessions Judge Deepti Devesh, who adjourned the plea to October 27, observed during the proceedings that no grounds were made at the present stage for the grant of statutory bail.

To the defence counsel’s vehement insistence that Saraswati had been implicated in the case, the judge orally observed, “The gravity of the offence increases multi-fold because of the number of victims.”

Earlier, the accused’s counsel said that his client was falsely implicated, and a false case had been lod

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