As Slippery As It Can Get! Chinmayanand Case 'Counterproductive' For Women In The Right

Uneasiness, heartache, and an eye infection. Former Union minister Chinmayanand coul­dn바카라�t be more sick to hold on to a hospital bed, rather than ruminating in his inhospitable cell at Shahjahanpur district jail in Uttar Pradesh. There바카라�s no information, though, if his skin ailment has flared up again바카라�well, the one that the 72-year-old BJP leader was getting treated allegedly with a young woman바카라�s oil massages.

The woman, a law student at a college that he runs, alleged that he had raped her through a year. He was arrested, and during the hearing on his bail application on September 30 it was alleged that he tore off the woman바카라�s clothes because he enjoyed a naked rubdown. His bail was rejected. Still, the massage is seen as a diversionary tactic to open the escape hatch for the suspect to escape by the skin of his teeth. 바카라�Swami Chinmayanandji has a skin problem. So, he takes an oil massage with a homeopathic medicine regularly. Is there anything wrong with that?바카라� his lawyer Om Singh asks. 바카라�Swamiji said he was asha­med of the act.바카라�

A massage바카라�even a coerced one in the nude바카라�isn바카라�t as big a crime as rape, which attracts far more stringent punishment as per amended laws protecting women against sexual abuses in India. The defence counsel can exploit this aspect, unless there바카라�s foolproof evidence that proves the woman바카라�s charges. The most serious charge against Chinmayanand is 바카라�sexual intercourse by a person in authority바카라�, which is legally not as grave an offence as rape.

The case has been recording sharp turns since the law student posted a video on her Facebook page on August 24 in which she pleaded to the Prime Minister and chief minister of UP to protect her from a sanyasi who has spoiled many women바카라�s lives. Soon after, the woman disappeared and her father lodged a complaint of abduction and sexual harassment against Chinmaya­nand. That very day, Chinmayanand lawyer Singh filed a complaint, accusing her of extorting money from the political leader. In the meantime, the case reached the Supreme Court, and UP Police traced the girl to Dausa, Rajasthan. The top court asked the UP government to ensure her safety and to set up a special investigation team (SIT). Also, Allahabad high court was directed to constitute a bench to monitor the case.

But the defence has turned the heat on the law student, with an extortion allegation following which she was arrested on September 25. Lawyer Singh asks 바카라�why will someone make 50-odd video clips for over a year to prove rape바카라�, if the actual intent wasn바카라�t to blackmail his client for money.

Chinmayanand is allegedly enjoying a long rope from the SIT, which has yet to press rape charges against him, though the women had filed a written complaint at Lodhi Road police station in Delhi and repeated the allegations before a judicial magistrate. SIT chief Naveen Arora declined to respond to any allegation, saying 바카라�it will hamper the investigation바카라�. For his part, the woman바카라�s lawyer, Anup Trivedi, alleged that the SIT has arrested her wrongly, but won바카라�t comment on the sessions court바카라�s refusal to grant her bail.

Women바카라�s rights activists and legal experts fear that the case might go cold. 바카라�If the girl has recorded her statement before the magistrate and also mentioned in her complaint in writing to the SIT that she was raped, I think rape charges should have been pressed against Chinmayanand,바카라� Rakesh Dwi­vedi, a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court, says.

According to Ranjana Kumari, a women바카라�s rights campaigner, the allegation that the girl has tried to extort money from Chinmayanand is a devious counter-ploy to divert attention. 바카라�It is a message to every girl that if you complain against the high and mighty, you will be punished instead of the culprit. It is really discouraging girls from coming out and complaining,바카라� she says.