{"id":30499,"date":"2013-10-08T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=30499"},"modified":"2013-10-08T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T10:34:03","slug":"restrain-media-speculation-asaram-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/restrain-media-speculation-asaram-sc","title":{"rendered":"Restrain media from speculation: Asaram to SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/asaram.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"30500\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/restrain-media-speculation-asaram-sc\/asaram\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/asaram.jpg?fit=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,181\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"asaram\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/asaram.jpg?fit=300%2C181&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30500\" alt=\"asaram\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/asaram.jpg?resize=300%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/asaram.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/10\/asaram.jpg?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to restrain the media from carrying speculative reports about him, his family and his ashrams in the wake of rape allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p>Senior counsel Vikas Singh, in a mention before an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice P. 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