Rape slur on BJP godman

A disciple has lodged an FIR against BJP leader and former Union minister of state for internal affairs Swami Chinmayanand,accusing him of rape,illegal confinement,forcing her to undergo abortion twice and attempt to murder.

A disciple has lodged an FIR against BJP leader and former Union minister of state for internal affairs Swami Chinmayanand,accusing him of rape,illegal confinement,forcing her to undergo abortion twice and attempt to murder.

The woman claimed she was vice-chairman of Swami Sukhdevanand Law College and manager of Daivi Sampada Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya,both at Chinmayanands Mumukshu Ashram in Shahjahanpur,but her entry had been barred since she got married on September 29.

Shahjahanpur SP Ramit Sharma said the FIR had been lodged at Kotwali police station. Chinmayanand,who was in Haridwar,could not be reached despite several attempts.

The woman said that she first met Chinmayanand in 2001,accompanied him on several religious tours,and later became her disciple. He started making advances towards her when she visited his ashram,Parmarth,in Haridwar in 2004,she alleged. Later,he confined her at his Shahjahanpur ashram,in 2005 made an attempt to strangulate her when she tried to escape,raped her after mixing sedatives in food and also made a video recording,she alleged.

She alleged Chinmayanand went on exploiting her sexually,threatened her,and forced her to abort her pregnancy in 2006 and 2009 at private hospitals in Bareilly and Lucknow,respectively.

The woman said that after she got married,he barred her entry to both institutions and had been threatening her,though she never resigned.

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