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The 81-year-old is currently lodged in a Jodhpur jail, where he is serving a life sentence in another case of raping a minor girl at his ashram in Rajasthan in 2013.
The trio asked the girl to meet them at Kundara in Kollam and abducted her in a car before raping her.
The Centre, represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, told the bench that the issue has legal as well as social implications and the govt would like to file its response to the petitions.
Nasu, a native of Lakshamveedu colony in Anchal, was taken into custody after the decomposed and naked body of a woman was found in a deserted railway building at Chemmamukku in Kollam.
A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi took up the pleas by CPI(M) leader Subhashini Ali, journalist Revati Laul, former vice-chancellor of the Lucknow University Roop Rekha Verma and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra against the premature release of the convicts.
The case against Pranav was registered by the Kadavanthra police in Ernakulam based on a complaint filed by a woman belonging to Malappuram.
A court had on November 3 granted anticipatory bail to Perumbavoor MLA accused of rape and attempt to murder. This order was challenged in the High Court.
"he memories of the horror that took place two decades ago began to haunt us again. How could we sleep in peace? The persons who destroyed our lives are walking free right in front of us," he says.
The incident happened between last Friday and Saturday. The survivor sought medical help on November 26 owing to severe pain, following which the police were informed.
The girl was illegally adopted; the sexual abuse started when the adoptive father died | She ran away from home after her mother refused to help her.