Chinmayanand’s lawyer fails to file bail application

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Chinmayanand’s lawyer fails to file bail application

Sunday, 22 September 2019 | PNS | Lucknow

In a major disappointment to rape accused former Union minister Chinmayanand Swami, his lawyer failed to file his bail application because of strike by local lawyers in Shahjahanpur on Saturday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party leader was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday and remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody by Shahjahanpur’s Chief Judicial Magistrate Omveer Singh.
Sources said that Swami Chinmayanand slept for five hours at night in the jail and also meditated for about an hour early Saturday morning.
Denying any special treatment being meted out to the BJP leader inside the prison, Jail Superintendent Rakesh Kumar said on Saturday  that Swami Chinmayanand took two meals after being lodged in the prison on Friday afternoon. He said that Swami Chinmayanand went to bed at 10:30 pm and woke up at around 3:30 am and meditated. After the barrack was opened at 5 am, he took a morning stroll inside the jail premises.
After freshening up, Swami Chinmayanand had tea and dalia like other inmates and for lunch, he ate pulse, chapati and vegetables.
Chinmayanand’s lawyer Om Singh told the media that the bail application could not be moved before a magistrate as working at Shahjahanpur court was suspended due to strike by lawyers on Saturday.
The lawyers have been pressing for the opening of a bench of Allahabad High Court in Shahjahanpur.
Meanwhile, the victim expressed displeasure over the SIT move of not booking Swami for rape. On Saturday, she claimed that she could not understand the reason for not charging Swami Chinmayanand under Section 376 of Indian Penal Code for rape. She suspected that the SIT, even as it arrested the accused, was working to bail him out in the case.
She also suspected that charges of extortion against her was also made even when she had nothing to do with it.
Earlier, in her statement before a magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the complainant had accused Swami Chinmayanand of blackmailing and raping her over a prolonged period.
The SIT on its part booked Chinmayanand under sections 376 (c) (a person in position of fiduciary seducing a woman for sexual intercourse not amounting to rape), 354D (stalking), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code.
Expressing faith in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the girl said that the arrest was probably made on the Chief Minister’s intervention but stressed that the functioning of the SIT was unsatisfactory and she would apprise the court about it.
Beside Chinmayanand, the SIT also arrested three acquaintances of the complainant, including two of her cousins, and booked them under sections 385, 506 and 201 of IPC and Section 67 of IT Act for blackmailing the BJP leader for extorting Rs 5 crore from him.

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