Special Investigation Team (SIT) files charge sheet in Chinmayanand case

Special Investigation Team (SIT) files charge sheet in Chinmayanand case

Shahjahanpur: The Special Investigation Team (SIT ) probing the sexual harassment case against former Union Minister Chinmayanand and therefore the extortion case against the alleged victim, a law student, on Wednesday, filed charge sheets in both the cases.

After a 2-month-long investigation, the Special Investigation Team filed the Twenty-page charge sheets in both the cases. The case diary runs into 4,700 pages.

The Special Investigation Team additionally submitted Seventy Nine evidences and told the court that it had cross-examined 105 people during the examinations.

The Special Investigation Team  field the charge sheet in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Om Vir Singh

All the accused, including Chinmayanand, the law student and her male companions Sanjay Singh, Vikram Singh and Sachin Sengar, were available in court. They were brought from jail under tight security and a heavy police deployment had been made in the district court too.

The charges were read out before them separately and therefore the accused were came back to the court.

As indicated by Special Investigation Team chief Naveen Arora, the charge sheet also mentions that D.P.S. Rathore, a BJP leader, was also likewisein an attempt to extort Rs 1.25 crore from Chinmayanand.

D.P.S. Rathore, is Shahjahanpur district cooperative bank chairman and a BJP leader. His aide Ajeet Kumar is the brother-in-law of 1 of the accused in the extortion case according to Arora.

D.P.S. Rathore and Kumar have been charged under different sections of the Indian Penal Code for extortion, causing vanishing  of proof and criminal intimidation.

The Special Investigation Team has yet not arrested them but has incorporated their name.

Rathore and Kumar had told the woman and her friend Sanjay to hand over all evidences (stored in a pen drive) to them so that it could be kept safe.

The Special Investigation Team recorded statements of 105 people and added 24 pieces of physical evidence, and 55 documents in the charge sheet. The SIT has concluded the probe and will file a final status report on  28 November.

Meanwhile, forensic labs studying the videos featuring Chinmayanand and the woman have said they have not been tampered with. Voice samples have also confirmed their authenticity.

"We traced the WhatsApp number from which the extortion message was sent to Chinmayanand. That number was installed by Sanjay...it is adequate to book them under IT Act," Arora said, referring to the extortion case.

The Special Investigation Team probe suggests that the proof from woman's hostel room was removed by her and Sanjay Kumar-one of the accused in the extortion case.

"It is accepted that a pair of spectacles (with an in-built camera) was also taken away by them. They took away every small thing from the room," Arora said.

2 reports -- 1) regarding the police functioning and 2) about lapses on the part of college administration -- will be submitted to the government, he included.

The High Court will hear the bail plea of the woman on 6 November  and Chinmayanand's bail plea on 8 November .

The Special Investigation Team that probed the case was constituted on the orders of the Supreme Court on 7 September7.

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