UP court asks SSP to arrest ex-Minister Chinmayanand
Special MP/MLA judge Asma Sultana has also written to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shahjahanpur to arrest Chinmayanand and produce him before the court.
Special MP/MLA judge Asma Sultana has also written to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shahjahanpur to arrest Chinmayanand and produce him before the court.
The Supreme Court had stepped in after the 23-year-old law student went missing for a few days in August last year after posting a video clip on social media, alleging sexual abuse.
The BJP leader was released from the Shahjahanpur district jail on Wednesday after the Allahabad High Court had granted him bail on Monday.
The 73-year-old politician was arrested after a complaint by the 23-year-old law student of the Swami Shukdevanand Law College student, which is run by the former union minister’s trust in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur. She had accused Chinmayanand of blackmail and rape by posting a video message on the social media on August 23, 2019.
BJP leaders DP Singh Rathore and Ajit Singh have been named as accused by the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
The case came to spotlight when the 23-year-old complainant went missing on August 24 after posting a video on social media alleging that a “senior leader of the seer community” was harassing and threatening her.
On October 4, Chief Judicial Magistrate Omvir Singh had ordered to record the voice samples of Chinmayanand, the law student and three others.
Earlier on Monday, the district court in Shahjahanpur rejected the bail applications of both Chinmayanand and the 23-year-old law student who is accused of extortion of Rs 5 crore from the former Union minister.
According to SIT chief, Inspector General of Police Naveen Arora, they had sufficient evidence that Rs 5 crore in extortion money had been demanded from Chinmayanand.
Swatantra Dev Singh, UP BJP chief when asked whether the party proposed any action against Chinmayanand, said, 'He was never a BJP member and hence the question does not arise.'
