{"id":315144,"date":"2019-09-20T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315144"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T05:25:23","slug":"bjp-leader-swami-chinmayanand-accused-of-rape-by-law-student-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-leader-swami-chinmayanand-accused-of-rape-by-law-student-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, accused of rape by law student, arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314746 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/chinmaya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"484\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/chinmaya.jpg 484w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/chinmaya-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/chinmaya-460x420.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Minister of State (Home) in the ministry led by Atal Behari Vajpayee and a prominent BJP leader from Thakur community, Chinmayanand was arrested today from his Mumukshu Ashram in Shahjahanpur, days after a law student levelled rape charges against him and provided video recordings to substantiate her charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victim yesterday threatened to immolate herself if Chinmayanand is not arrested despite providing sufficient evidences of offences committed by him. She questioned the way SIT giving undue weightage to a habitual offender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chinmayanand has reportedly been taken to a Lucknow hospital by UP Police\u2019s special team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The special investigation team (SIT) probing the woman\u2019s allegations had on Monday taken the woman before Judicial Magistrate Geetika Singh to record her statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She repeatedly alleged that Chinmayanand sexually exploited her for a year after helping her with admission into his college.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of State (Home) in the ministry led by Atal Behari Vajpayee and a prominent BJP leader from Thakur community, Chinmayanand was arrested today from his Mumukshu Ashram in Shahjahanpur, days after a law student levelled rape charges against him and provided video recordings to substantiate her charges. The victim yesterday threatened to immolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11765,2013,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315145,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315144\/revisions\/315145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}