Chinmayanand Case: SIT digs drains, finds victim's purse and document

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the alleged sexual assault case against former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand has dug the drain outside the college to search for evidence in the rape case. The SIT brought the drain water out of the tubewell on Saturday, November 2, and recovered the purse of the complainant, some files as well as student identity cards.

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Search for spy camera fitted spectacle

The purpose of digging the drains was to look for a spy camera fitted spectacle through which a sting video was made of Chinmayanand by the complainant who is a law student. The student had thrown off the spectacle in the drains. 

Chinmayanand has been booked under section 376C of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which is usually applied in cases where a person abuses his position to "induce or seduce" a woman under his charge to have "sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape".

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The alleged victim in the case was arrested from Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh in a counter case of extortion and sent to jail. The law student who had accused the former Union Minister of rape was arrested because she did not hand over her mobile phone to the special investigative team (SIT) and a video showed her discussing an extortion plot against Chinmayanand with three friends surfaced. The video was shot by one of the three allies of the law student to ensure that none of them would go back on their word on how to share the extortion amount of Rs 5 crore. The SIT team had earlier said that enough digital and forensic evidence has been found against the four and the woman is the mastermind of the extortion plot.

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The law student and the three men have been booked on charges of extortion, criminal intimidation, disappearance of evidence, a criminal act done with a criminal knowledge or intention and Section 67 of the Information Technology Act

The bail plea of the law student, arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from the former Union minister, will be heard on November 6.

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