‘Why Chinmayanand not arrested yet?’

LUCKNOW : The Shahjahanpur woman, who has accused former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand of rape and blackmailing, on Tuesday questioned the Special Investigation Team (SIT) for not registering an FIR against the former minister.

The 23-year-old recorded her statement before the judicial magistrate on Monday for almost four hours. In her almost 20-page statement, she is said to have accused the former minister of rape and kidnapping.

On Tuesday, she said the SIT had not even registered an FIR againstChinmayanand.“Whatis SIT waiting for? I want SIT to explain in 24 hours why the person has not been arrested even after the statement under 164 CrPC is recorded,” she said.

“We have not been informed about anything. A day has passed since I recorded my statement before a judicial magistrate. But what the SIT is doing in connection with rape charges,” the woman added. On being asked about Chinmayanand’s illness, she said he was acting like a kid. “He is making an excuse when his arrest is imminent,” she quipped.

On Monday evening, Chinmayanand was attended by a team of doctors from Shahjahanpur district hospital and treated for low blood sugar and diarrhoea. He was advised to take rest, said his lawyer Om Singh.

The woman, a second-year student at a college in Shahjahanpur run by Chinmayanand, had gone missing on August 24 after posting a video on social media a day earlier in which she accused “a big leader of the saint society” of threatening her and “destroying the lives of several girls.”