“Explosive video evidence” against BJP Leader Chinmayanand
NEW DELHI : The 23-year-old UP law student, who has accused BJP leader and former Union minister Chinmayanand of rape, reportedly has “explosive video evidence” to support her charge, which has been handed to the police in a pen drive by her friend.
The friend handed over the pen drive to the Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), which has reportedly questioned the woman for more than 15 hours. Earlier the law student alleged that she was filmed and blackmailed.
Using the video, Chinmayanand allegedly raped the student. She says he also filmed the assault and used it to blackmail her. She says she decided to start filming him earlier this year and for this, installed a camera in her glasses.
According to sources, the woman in her statement to the Delhi police and magistrate described what she alleged was a year of sexual assault by the BJP leader. She stated the same allegations before a Supreme Court appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT), who had questioned her for nearly 11 hours.
The woman, who has alleged that she was raped by the former union minister for a year, reportedly filmed Chinmayanand with a camera on her spectacles. The 23-year-old has accused Chinmayanand, who was a union minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, of raping her for a year using videos to blackmail her.
The woman, in her 12-page complaint said that she met Chinmayanand in June 2018 for admission in a law course at a college which he runs. She alleged that he took her phone number and arranged her admission. He also called her and offered her a job at the college library for Rs 5000. The woman worked in the library while continuing classes since her family was poor.
“He asked me to move into the hostel in October and later invited me to his ashram,” the complaint added. The woman claimed he showed her a video of her bathing in the hostel and threatened to make it “viral” and forced himself on her. She said the leader also filmed the rape and used it for blackmail. The assaults continued until July this year.
On September 5, she filed a complaint with the Lodhi Road Police Station in Delhi as she had “lost faith in the Uttar Pradesh police” since they denied registering her complaint.
The woman went missing on August 24, a day after she posted a video online in which she insinuated the leader had harassed and threatened her. In the video, she sought help from Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and PM Narendra Modi.
The woman’s father filed a complaint with the UP police after she went missing. Although she did not name the BJP leader in the initial video, the woman’s father named Chinamayanand in his complaint.
On August 30, she was traced to Rajasthan and was produced before the Supreme Court. In court, she informed judges that she went into hiding to protect herself. The apex court ordered the Special Investigation Team to enquire into her allegations. The former Union minister, however, refuted the allegations and called it a ‘conspiracy’ to blackmail him.(With Agency Inputs ).
