Ex- minister Chinmayanand gets bail in sexual abuse case Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted bail to former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand , accused of sexually abusing a law student.
Justice Rahul Chaturvedi issued the bail order on the plea filed by the BJP leader last year.
Chinmayanand, whose trust runs the Shahjahanpur law college where the woman studied, was arrested on September 20 under Section 376C of the Indian Penal Code, a charge short of rape. It is applied when someone in authority takes advantage of his official position to u2018 induce or seduceu2019 a woman to have sex with him.
In a parallel case, the woman was charged with trying to extort money from Chinmayanand, whom she had accused of rape.
The high court had granted her bail on December 4.
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