SHAHJAHANPUR: A day after former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand was questioned for seven hours and his bedroom at his ashram was sealed by the special investigation team (SIT), the law student’s family said the probe was moving in the right direction. The 23-year-old postgraduate student’s statement was recorded under section 161 of CrPC on Friday and handed over a pen drive in which “all the evidence against the BJP leader” is stored. It has a total of 43 videos.

“I have full trust in the apex court and they will help me get justice,” the woman said.

“The aides of Chinmayanand had shot a video of me bathing in the hostel washroom. He then threatened to make those videos viral and raped me on first occasion and also shot the sexual assault. Thereafter, I had no option other than acting on his instructions. I have requested the SIT to recover all those videos from him,” she alleged.

About the "missing evidence" from her hostel room, she said, “Chinmayanand has removed many evidence from my hostel room, but removing those evidence cannot save him.”

Meanwhile, the former Union minister’s advocate Om Singh said, “The videos she has mentioned about are fake as the date shows in the videos is 2014 when the woman didn’t even join the college. Also, why didn’t she share the videos with police or filed a case through court as she is herself a law graduate? Her motive was to extort money from my client and tarnish his image. We are sure SIT will reveal the truth soon.”

On Friday, Chinmayanand, whose organisation runs several colleges, was questioned for about seven hours at the police lines here on Thursday night. SIT members and a forensic team also spent six hours at his Divya Dham ashram, where his bedroom was later sealed.

The postgraduate student has alleged that she was raped and "physically exploited" for a year by the BJP leader. Chinmayanand's lawyer has, however, alleged an extortion attempt.

The woman first levelled harassment charges against the BJP leader in a video clip uploaded on social media. She was then missing for several days before an Uttar Pradesh police team traced her to Rajasthan and produced her before the Supreme Court.

