Swami Chinmayanand: A case of sexual exploitation was filed against Swami Chinmayanand, the founder of Mumukshu Ashram, by his disciple in the year 2011. In the year 2018, the Uttar Pradesh government had sent a letter to the court through the District Magistrate to withdraw this case of sexual exploitation. But the victim had objected and requested the court that she did not want to withdraw the case.
2011 Shahjahanpur rape case: A court in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday honorably acquitted former Union Minister of State for Home Swami Chinmayanand (Swami Chinmayanand Case) in the case of sexual exploitation of a student, declaring him not guilty due to lack of evidence. Swami Chinmayanand Saraswati’s lawyer Firoz Hasan Khan told PTI that Additional District Judge Ehsan Hussain of the local MP-MLA court, while hearing the case on Thursday (February 1), acquitted Swami Chinmayanand due to lack of evidence.
The founder of Mumukshu Education Institute located in Shahjahanpur city and former Union Minister of State for Home had made serious allegations of sexual exploitation by one of his students who taught in his college. In her complaint, the victim had accused Swami Chinmayanand of misconduct, the case of which was registered by the city Kotwali police on 30 November 2011. After completing the investigation of the case, the police had filed the charge sheet in the court, after which the hearing was going on.
Honorably acquitted
The lawyer said that in this case, 6 witnesses were presented by the prosecution and government advocate Neelima Saxena has also argued. He said that apart from the medical officer and the victim, writer Khurshid, who filed the report, and radiologists MP Gangwar and BP Gautam have testified on behalf of the prosecution. Khan said that the court has honorably acquitted Swami Chinmayanand without finding him guilty in this case.
What is the whole matter?
A case of sexual exploitation was filed against Swami Chinmayanand, the founder of Mumukshu Ashram, by his disciple in 2011. In the year 2018, the Uttar Pradesh government had sent a letter to the court through the District Magistrate to withdraw this case of sexual exploitation. But the victim had objected and requested the court that she did not want to withdraw the case. Therefore the application for withdrawal of the case was rejected. Also, a bailable warrant was issued against Swami Chinmayanand.
After this, Chinmayanand filed an appeal in the High Court to withdraw the case. When the High Court also rejected his appeal, he approached the Supreme Court, but the apex court also rejected his appeal. Swami Chinmayanand got anticipatory bail on December 19, 2022 in the sexual exploitation case from Allahabad High Court. Since then this matter was pending in the court.
