Court to hear case against Chinmayanand on Dec 13

An Uttar Pradesh court has fixed December 11 as the hearing date in rape case against Swamy Chinmayanand. Chinmayanad is already in jail in connection with a case filed against him by a law student of his college.

Shahjahanpur (UP): A court here has fixed December 13 as the next date of hearing in a rape case filed against former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand in 2011.

The case was registered against Chinmayanand at a police station here in 2011 and the police had filed a charge sheet against the BJP leader in 2012.

Additional District Judge, Special MP/MLA Court, Narendra Kumar Pandey has fixed December 13 as the next date of hearing in the case, Mukesh Kumar Gupta, the lawyer of the complainant, told a news agency.

The rape survivor was a disciple of Chinmayanand at his ashram between 2000 and 2011. It was during that time that she had accused the former Union minister of raping her.

Chinmayanad is already in jail in connection with a case filed against him by a law student of his college under section 376C of the IPC, an offence pertaining to the abuse of one's position by a person in authority to "induce or seduce" a woman under his charge to have "sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of the rape".