The Supreme Court agreed to take up suo moto cognizance of a plea of a group of lawyers on a missing law student from Shahjahanpur (UP) who had made sexual harassment allegations against former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand.
The case, taken up by a bench led by Justice R Banumathi on the court’s motion, will be heard on Friday. The girl went missing soon after she accused the BJP leader, who is the director of the college where she studies, of sexually harassing college students.
Her family has accused the police of soft-pedalling the probe because of the involvement of the BJP leader. The police had registered the case only after a video posted by the woman on Facebook before she went missing made national headlines.
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In the widely-circulated video, the woman accused a big leader of the saint society of threatening her and destroying the lives of several girls.
She didn’t name Chinmayanand in this video. Her father, who filed a police complaint, however, accused the BJP leader who has a sprawling ashram in Shahjahanpur and runs several colleges in the eastern UP town.