Rape allegation: Chinmayanand, law student taken to Lucknow for voice samples

SHAHJAHANPUR: The special investigation team (SIT) has taken the remand custody of former Union minister

Swami Chinmayanand

and law student from

Shahjahanpur district

jail to record their voice samples at a lab in Lucknow on Wednesday morning.

Chinmayanand was arrested by SIT on September 20 and was booked under sections 376C (sexual intercourse by person in authority), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354D (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC on the basis of the complaint filed by the 23-year-old woman who studies law at a college run by his ashram. The same woman was also arrested by SIT on September 25 after she was booked under IPC’s Sections 385 (extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (disappearance of evidences), 35 (criminal act done with a criminal knowledge or intention) and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act by SIT for attempting to extort Rs 5 crore from Chinmayanand along with three others.

A Shahjahanpur court had granted the permission to collect their voice samples for further investigation in both the cases probed by SIT on October 5.

Sub-inspector Sanjay Kumar from SIT took the remand of Chinmayanand at around 9am while the law student was taken into remand custody earlier in the morning.

“When I came to district jail at 8.30am to meet my daughter, I was told that SIT has already taken her to Lucknow,” said father of the law student.

“SIT has taken the remand custody of Swami Chinmayanand and the law student after providing legal court documents on Wednesday morning,” said Rakesh Kumar, jail superintendent.