{"id":319637,"date":"2020-02-03T10:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319637"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:18:18","slug":"allahabad-high-court-grants-bail-to-rape-accused-chinmayanand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/allahabad-high-court-grants-bail-to-rape-accused-chinmayanand\/","title":{"rendered":"Allahabad High Court grants bail to rape accused Chinmayanand"},"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\" \/>Former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, who has been accused of sexual exploitation by a law student, was on Monday granted bail by the Allahabad High Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chinmayanand, whose trust runs Shahjahanpur Law College where the student studied, was arrested in September 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The woman was also arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from Chinmayanand . She was released on bail in December last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 23-year-old law student went missing on August 24, a day after she posted a video clip on social media, alleging that \u2018Chinmayanand was harassing and threatening to kill her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After this, the woman\u2019s father lodged a complaint, accusing a senior leader of harassing his daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, who has been accused of sexual exploitation by a law student, was on Monday granted bail by the Allahabad High Court. Chinmayanand, whose trust runs Shahjahanpur Law College where the student studied, was arrested in September 2019. The woman was also arrested for allegedly trying to extort [&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":[2248,11765],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319637"}],"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=319637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319640,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319637\/revisions\/319640"}],"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=319637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}