BJP leader D P S Rathore, who was facing charges in the extortion case filed by former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand against the law student who had accused him of sexual harassment, on Thursday surrendered before a local court here which subsequently granted him bail.
The 23-year-old law student, who had leveled sexual harassment charges against former Union Minister Chinmayanand, has been released on bail from Shahjahanpur district jail. Late on Wednesday evening, she was granted bail by the Allahabad High Court. Her bail applications were earlier denied by lower courts in Shahjahanpur.
The 23-year-old law student, who accused former Union Minister Chinmayanand of rape, has been granted bail by the Allahabad High Court, two months after she was arrested on charges of extortion.
The law student from Uttar Pradesh, who was arrested for extortion and blackmail after she accused former minister Chinmayanand of rape, was given bail after spending two months in jail.
Former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, accused of sexually exploiting a student of a law college run by his trust, told a UP court on Saturday the case diary provided to him was incomplete, prompting the court to order that a complete diary be made available to him.
The 23-year-old student, who had on Monday appeared in her first-semester back paper amid tight security, was not allowed by the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University in Bareilly to appear for the third-semester exam.
The Supreme Court has granted an interim stay on the Allahabad High Court's order, allowing former union minister Chinmayanand to access certified copy of the statement recorded by the Shahjahanpur law student
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday sought the state government's stand on the bail plea of a woman law student accused of trying to extort Rs 5 crore from BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, who too has been arrested on charges of sexually exploiting her.
"The probe into the case has been completed and the charge sheet will be filed in the court tomorrow. The pen drive which was snatched from the victim law student in Dausa (Rajasthan), has been recovered from BJP leaders DPS Rathore and Ajit Singh," IG-rank officer Naveen Arora, heading the SIT, told reporters in Shahjahanpur on Tuesday.
The handbag of the victim, who is a law student, was found in a drain near Chinmayanand's ashram in Shahjahanpur.
A bench of Justice Rahul Chaturvedi slated November 8 for hearing Chinmayanand bail plea after it came up for hearing before it.
The law student, who had accused former union minister Chinmayanand of sexual harassment, has submitted a 'miscellaneous application' in the Allahabad High Court, seeking inclusion of rape charges in the FIR filed against him.
The law student who had accused former Union minister Chinmayanand of sexual exploitation completed admission formalities for the Masters of Law (LLM) course in Bareilly University on Friday, officials said.
A local court here on Thursday rejected the bail plea of Sanjay Singh, a friend of the law student who has accused former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand of rape. Sanjay Singh was booked in a case of extortion along with the woman and two others after they allegedly demanded Rs 5 crore from Chinmayanand. The woman is currently lodged in a jail.
The court deferred the hearing after briefly taking it up through video conferencing. "Chinmayamand had to reach the court for hearing but due to security reasons, the hearing was done through video conferencing," Chinmayanand's lawyer Om Singh said.
Two BJP leaders from Uttar Pradesh's Shajahanpur were now on the radar of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is probing sexual assault charges against former Union Minister Chinmayanand.
A court reserved its order on an application by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) seeking permission to take voice samples of former Union minister Chinmayanand and a law student, who has accused him of raping her on Friday.
Chinmayanand used to tear the clothes of the law student whenever she resisted his sexual advances. The district government counsel Anuj Singh has said that according to the law student's statement, the former minister used to tear her clothes whenever she refused to remove them on her own, which is why they slapped IPC Section 354D on Chinmayanand.
Former Union Minister Chinmayanand, who has been accused of sexual harassment by a law student, was discharged from the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) here late on Monday and shifted to the district jail in Shahjahanpur, police sources said.
About 80 Congress workers were arrested on Monday while holding a public meeting ahead of a march they had planned in support of the student who has accused BJP's former Union minister Chinmayanand of rape, police said.
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