Judicial custody of Swami Chinmayanand extended till Oct 16

Shahjahanpur: A local court here on Thursday extended the judicial custody of former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand  till October 16.

A law student has levelled rape charges against the BJP leader.

His counsel Om Singh said the BJP leader was produced in the court  through videoconferencing from the jail because of security reasons  and CJM Omvir Singh extended his judicial custody by 14 days.

Another counsel of the BJP leader, Puja Singh, told PTI that the court was told about his medical condition and it was requested that  the leader be provided Category A  facilities in the jail as he had  been a Union Minister.

 He was made to sleep on the floor and given food like a common  prisoner, he said, adding that the Shahjahanpur jail did not have  proper



facilities. 

He should be shifted to another jail in the  State, Puja Singh said.

 Om Singh said the SIT probing charges against the former Union  Minister had moved an application in the court of the CJM for a permission  to take voice samples of Chinmayanand and the law student. The plea  will be taken up on Friday.

The former Union Minister was booked under Section 376-C of the  IPC, a charge short of rape, on the complaint of the 23-year-old law student.

The woman has been charged with extortion following a  complaint  by Chinmayanand's lawyer that she and three others were demanding  money from the leader.

The district court has already rejected bail applications of both.