SC Directs HC-Monitored Probe By SIT Into Woman's Allegations

The woman had gone missing after levelling allegations against Swami Chinmayanand in a video and was later found in Rajasthan by UP police.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to set up an SIT, headed by an IGrank officer, to investigate the charges levelled by a Shahjahanpur woman law student, who has accused former Union minister and BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand of harassment, as well as the two related FIRs, and said that an Allahabad High Court bench will monitor the probe.

After interacting in-chamber with the woman and her parents, a bench of justices R Banumathi and A S Bopanna issued a slew of directions, including asking the state to provide police protection to her parents and family members and explore the possibility of admitting the woman and her brother in another college at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.

The woman had gone missing after leveling allegations against Chinmayanand in a video and was later found in Rajasthan by UP police.

The apex court judges said the woman had raised certain grievances against the institution where she studied and her mother and father have some apprehensions about the safety of their children. The bench, however, underscored that it is not expressing any opinion on the grievances and apprehensions raised by them.