Chinmayanand accuser arrested for ‘extortion’

LUCKNOW: The 23-year-old law student, who accused former Union minister Chinmayanand of rape, was arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur on Wednesday in an extortion case that the politician filed against her, leading to her family and activists questioning the police action and alleging that the arrest was meant to weaken the case against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran.

A local court didn’t give her any immediate relief later in the day and scheduled her bail plea hearing for Thursday.

“The woman was arrested from her residence and taken to a hospital for medical examination. She was sent to judicial custody for 14 days,” said inspector NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave two more weeks to the CBI to complete its probe of the July truck-car collision in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli in which the Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer were grievously injured and two of her aunts were killed.

The agency received the

general of police Naveen Arora, who heads the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case.

Chinmayanand, 72, was arrested last Friday but is currently in one of Lucknow’s top hospitals, where he is being additional two weeks after submitting before the court that the injured lawyer was still unfit to record his statement.

The woman, who has alleged rape by former BJP legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, was discharged on Wednesday from New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

treated for cardiac problems. He was also sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Arora said the woman was arrested after “enough” digital and forensic evidence was found.