File photo of BJP leader accused of rape, Chinmayanand.
The LLM student categorically denied that she had made any accusation against the former minister of the Chinmayanand Union as the prosecution had accused him.
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The law student who had accused former Union Minister Chinmayanand of sexually exploiting her repudiated statement before a special MP-MLA court in Lucknow on Tuesday. The LLM student categorically denied that she had made any accusation against the former Union minister as the prosecution had accused him.
Enraged by this, the prosecution immediately forwarded an application under Section 340 of the CrPC, seeking action against her for perjury. Judge PK Rai ordered his office to register the application and asked the prosecution to provide a copy of the application to the victim and the accused.
The court set October 15 for a hearing on the application. In February this year, the Allahabad High Court granted bail to Chinmayanand, whose trust runs the Shahjahanpur Law School where the woman studied.
He was booked into jail after a case brought against him by the law student and was arrested in September of last year. The case was registered under Section 376-C of the IPC, a crime related to the abuse of a person’s position by a person with the authority to “induce or seduce” a woman under his charge to have “sexual relations. which do not amount to the crime of rape. ” “.
Chinmayanand (72) also faces charges under Sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 354-D (stalking), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
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