Swami Chinmayanand Case: Law Student Arrested, Admits To Charges Of Extortion, Says SIT

INDIA Team Latestly|

A young law student in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly raped by former union minister Chinmayanand was arrested and jailed on September 25 in an extortion case filed by the BJP politician. IPS officer Bharti Singh, a member of a Special Investigation Team (SIT), said that during the interrogation the victim accepted that she along with three other people planned to extort money from the former Union Minister. The 23-year-old and three of her male friends have been charged with extortion, criminal intimidation and "disappearance of evidence" and sent to 14 days judicial custody. 72-year-old Chinmayanand was arrested on Friday but is not in jail. He has claimed heart ailments and has been in hospital, "under observation", since Sunday, September 20.

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