Top Court Judge Recuses From Hearing Plea To Transfer Chinmayanand Case
Chinmayanand was once arrested on September 20 remaining yr below phase 376-C of the Indian Penal Code.
New Delhi:
Best Court pass judgement on, Justice R Banumathi, on Monday recused herself from listening to two petitions together with one in search of switch of the rape case filed in opposition to former union minister and BJP chief Chinmayanand from Uttar Pradesh to a Delhi court docket.
The second one petition, filed by way of senior suggest Colin Gonsalves on behalf of the rape survivor, challenged the bail granted to Chinmayanand by way of the Allahabad Top Court.
Closing week, Gonsalves discussed the subject earlier than a Best Court bench headed by way of Leader Justice SA Bobde for switch of the case to Delhi for a good trial and stated that the accused is a formidable guy and lifetime of sufferer’s circle of relatives is at risk.
Leader Justice Bobde had stated that the sufferer and her circle of relatives can observe for police coverage.
In February, Allahabad Top Court had transferred from Shahjahanpur to Lucknow the trial within the sexual abuse case in opposition to Chinmyanand.
The Allahabad Top Court had on February three granted bail to Chinmayanand, a former Union minister of state, within the alleged rape case filed by way of a lady who studied regulation in a school run by way of Chinmayanand in UP’s Shahjahanpur.
In December 2019, the 23-year-old regulation scholar, who has accused Chinmayanand of rape, was once launched from a district prison in reference to an extortion case after she was once granted bail by way of Allahabad Top Court.
The girl was once arrested on September 25 in reference to an extortion case filed at the foundation of Chinmayanand’s grievance alleging that she, in conjunction with 3 of her pals, had demanded Rs five crore from him.
Chinmayanand had alleged that they threatened to make public some purported movies of him getting a therapeutic massage from the regulation scholar. However, the girl had alleged that she was once time and again raped and blackmailed by way of Chinmayanand for over a yr.
