Sleuths of Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the sexual harassment by Swami Chinmayanand, on Friday took the complainant to Mumuksh Ashram to collect scientific evidences.
The girl, a law student at Chinmayanand’s college, was also taken to SS Law College in this regard.
The SIT team, backed by a team of forensic experts, visited the room shown in a video of Chinmayanand’s massage that went viral on social media.
For conducting the investigation smoothly, the SIT team asked the college administration to close the college for a day on Friday. A notice in this regard was pasted on Thursday evening.
Sources said that a forensic team also inspected Swami Chinmayanand’s bedroom at his home inside the ashram on Friday noon. A heavy deployment of police force was made outside the ashram to ensure that there was no untoward incident.
BJP leader and former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand was interrogated by the SIT for around seven hours on Thursday and was asked not to leave the city till the completion of inquiry. At the quizzing session, Chinmayanand was accompanied by his lawyer Om Singh.
After quizzing, the SIT team sealed his ‘Divya Dham’ residence inside Mumuksh Ashram around 3 am on Friday.
The SIT team on Thursday also interrogated SS College principal Avnish Mishra and SS Law College principal Dr Sanjay Kumar Barnwal. Both institutions are run by the ashram of the BJP leader.
The girl student of SS Law College has levelled charges of sexual harassment against Chinmayanand. She has also accused Shahjahanpur District Magistrate Indra Vikram Singh of pressuring her father and family to withdraw complaint against Swami Chinmayanand.
The girl’s father filed a complaint with the police, accusing 72-year-old Chinmayanand of sexually harassing his daughter, a charge refuted by the former Union minister’s lawyer, who termed it a “conspiracy” to blackmail the BJP leader.