Yet another godman faced sexual harassment charges by a student of his own college in Shahjahanpur. Reports said that former Union minister in the BJP-led government Swami Chinmayanand found himself in the middle of a controversy after a girl student of his college levelled charges of sexual exploitation against him.
A law student of SS Law College, owned by Swami’s Ashram, has alleged via a video posted on social media that the college management had made life difficult for her. She made direct charges of sexual exploitation against Swami.
The girl’s family claimed that she was missing for the past two days. A case of missing has been registered and investigations are on.
Meanwhile, Swami denied charged and alleged that there was a conspiracy to extort Rs 5 crore from him. He claimed that he had got extortion calls and he lodged an FIR against unidentified people.
“Swami lodged the FIR on August 22 alleging that an extortion of Rs 5 crore had been demanded through WhatsApp. He said the extortionist also threatened to make his video viral if the amount was not coughed up,” he told the police.
The FIR was lodged by Swami’s Mumuksh Ashram situated in Shahjahanpur’s Kotwali police station area. Swami had been in controversy few years back when he was accused of similar charges by a woman in his school. However, he was acquitted in the case later. Chinmayanand is currently with BJP and is said to be close to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as the latter has visited his ashram in Shahjahanpur twice.