MP-MLA court acquits rape-accused former union minister Swami Chinmayanand

A former minister in the union cabinet, Swami Chinmayanand was arrested in September 2019 after being accused of raping a law college student.

Former union minister Swami Chinmayanand, who was facing charges of rape and extortion, was acquitted by a special MP-MLA court on Friday. Chinmayanand Case Twist: Rape victim arrested by SIT in an extortion case.(@ShivendraAajTak)Watch #NewsToday live with @sardesairajdeep: https://t.co/4fqxBVUizL pic.twitter.com/88SGUd0sSk Swami Chinmayanand was arrested in September 2019 after being accused of raping a law student studying in the Shahjahanpur law college run by the former union minister's trust. A case was registered against him under section 376C of the IPC, an offence pertaining to the abuse of one's position by a person in authority to "induce or seduce" a woman under his charge to have "sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape".