SHAHJAHANPUR: Three days after a 23-year-old LLM student went missing, the Shahjahanpur police has lodged an FIR against former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand , for allegedly kidnapping and threatening to kill her. The former minister is the chairperson of the SS Postgraduate College of the city where the girl is pursuing post-graduation in law.

“We have registered an FIR against former minister Swami Chinmayanand and we have already deployed police teams to track the accused and recover the girl. The hostel room will also be seized and the girl’s records checked. We have provided security to the girl's family to ensure that they are not threatened by the accused," SSP S Channappa told TOI.

The girl's father had given a written complaint to the police on Sunday after her video, in which she blamed the former minister for her disapperance and accused him of torture, went viral. However, the FIR was lodged at Shahjahanpur Kotwali police station on Tuesday night only after he uploaded his complaint at the Integrated Grievance Redress System (IGRS) portal of the UP government.

The FIR was registered after a meeting between the girl’s father with DM Indra Vikram Singh and SSP S Channapa.

Police have assured him that they will find his daughter soon. “My priority is the safety and security of my daughter. I have requested police to rescue my daughter who is definitely in a deep trouble. She had made the last call on her mother’s phone at 6pm on August 24 and her phone has been switched off after that call," he told TOI.

The girl is missing since she shared a video on Facebook in which she had blamed the former minister for her disappearance and had alleged that he had ruined the life of many girls of the college and she had proof against him.

The girl had also alleged that the former minister is quite influential and had threatened to kill her parents.

Chinmayanand, who served as an MoS in Vajpayee government, has been booked under Sections 364 (kidnapping or abduction with purpose of murder) and 506 (Criminal intimidation).

This is not the first such case filed against the former minister. In 2011, an FIR was registered against him at Kotwali police station in Shahjahanpur by a woman who alleged that he kept her at Haridwar ashram where he repeatedly raped her.

Chinmayanand obtained a stay against his arrest. In 2018, UP government started the process to withdraw this case, however, the chief judicial magistrate rejected the order after the complainant filed an objection against it. At present, the case is pending before Allahabad high court .



In Video: 23-year-old LLM student goes missing, ex-minister Swami Chinmayanand booked for abduction