The missing 23-year-old girl law student from Uttar Pradesh (UP), whose father had accused former union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand of abducting her, was found with a friend in Rajasthan today (Friday, Aug 30), said the UP police.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice team caught her in Rajasthan. They are bringing her to Shahjahanpur. We would question her in detail,\u201d said Superintendent of Police, Shahjahanpur.<\/p>\n
UP DGP OP Singh said TOI that the girl has been recovered with a friend from Rajasthan. She is being brought back to Shahjahanpur and later the details of how she reached there will be shared with the media.<\/p>\n
Singh told NDTV,\u201cShe is hail and hearty. It seems she went out of her own will to various places,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court also took up the case today. A bench of Justices R Banumathi and AS Bopanna asked the state government to inform it as to by when the girl can be produced before the court.<\/p>\n
The girl, a native of Shahjahanpur, was accompanied by a youth. The police team learnt that the two had withdrawn Rs 1500 from an ATM in Jaipur yesterday. The money was swiped from the card owned by the youth.<\/p>\n
Former BJP MP Chinmayanand, president of the college\u2019s management committee, has been booked for abduction on the basis of a complaint by the student\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
The girl had been missing since August 24, a day after she posted a video on Facebook alleging that a \u201cbig leader of the Sant Samaj\u201d had \u201cdestroyed the lives of many other girls and also has threatened to kill me\u201d. She also claimed to have proof against Swami Chinmayanand,but said that he is very powerful and even the SP and the DM can\u2019t act against him. She requested Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help her.<\/p>\n
The same day, the victim\u2019s mother went to her hostel but she was not traceable while her phones were found to be switched off. The girl is a second semester student of LLM.<\/p>\n
College authorities have claimed that the student has been absent since the beginning of the third semester on August 5.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s father, in a written complaint to the SP Shahjahanpur, had said that his daughter has alleged that Chinmayanand and his aides have sexually harassed her and other hostel inmates.<\/p>\n
The police filed the family’s case only on Tuesday, three days after she went missing, and charged Chinmayanand with kidnapping and criminal intimidation. The former MP, however, was not questioned. His lawyer asserted that the allegations were false and an attempt to extort the politician.The police are probing Chinmayanand\u2019s complaint in which he alleged that he received an extortion text message from an unknown phone number demanding Rs 5crore from him.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided to take up the case after lawyers raised concerns that it could turn into the another “Unnao case”, where a powerful BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar\u2013 expelledonly recently from the party \u2013 isaccused of raping a minor girl from his village in 2017 and conspiring to murder her in a recent car crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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