Chief Magistrate Dismisses Chinmayanand’s Plea To Book Student Under Gangster Act

Mumbai: In another development in Chinmayanand case, who is accused of rape by a law student, local court on Tuesday dismissed his petition demanding that the Gangster Act should be slapped on the woman and three others for trying to blackmail him.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Omvir Singh dismissed the petition saying that it was not under his jurisdiction. He directed that it be moved before the court concerned, Pooja Singh, counsel for Chinmayanand told PTI.

Chinmayanand had also sent a letter to the state police chief demanding that the stringent Uttar Pradesh Gangster and Antisocial Activity (Prevention) Act be enforced against the woman and her three friends.

According to the petition, one of the accused in the extortion case, Sachin Sengar came to meet Chinmayananda at his home on 9 August.

He allegedly told Chinmayananda that he had all the evidence with him and a false case would be registered if the former minister did not pay.

The petition claimed that Sanjay Sengar has had two cases registered in the past, one of which has been filed at the Tilhar police station in Shahjahanpur for an attempt to murder.

The petition alleged that cases have also been registered against the student’s father. It also accused the woman’s mother.

Chinmayananda has been booked under Section 376C of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which is usually applied in cases where a person is accused of “inducing or molesting” a woman under his charge Misuses the post, for which “incest” should not be a crime, “rape.”

He also faces charges of staring, wrongfully imprisoned and criminal threatening. The woman studies in one of the colleges run by the politician’s ashram.

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