Law Student Who Accused Chinmayanand Of Rape Has Been Denied To Appear In Exams
The 23-year-old law student who had accused former union minister Swami Chinmayanand of raping her is set to miss a year. Officials of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University MJPRU have denied her permission to appear in her second-year LLM exams due to &ldquolow attendance. The girl was to appear for her third semester exams scheduled to start from Tuesday She was asked to produce a court order in this regard.
On Monday, a university in Bareilly refused to allow the law student, who had accused former union minister Swami Chinmayanand of raping her, to write her examination.
The girl was to appear for her third semester exams, scheduled to start from Tuesday.
She was asked to produce a court order in this regard.
The 23-year-old law student, who herself is lodged in Shahjahanpur district jail in an extortion case, is set to miss a year. Officials of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University (MJPRU) have denied her permission to appear in her second-year LLM exams due to ¡°low attendance¡±.
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This is happening despite the local CJM court granting her permission to appear for her exams and instructing the jail superintendent to send the woman to Bareilly in police custody.
The woman will be brought to Bareilly from Shahjahanpur district under police custody but will not be allowed entry into the examination hall, said a report by The Times of India.
Head of the varsity¡¯s law department, Amit Singh, said that the woman has zero attendance and she didn¡¯t even appear for internal exams.
On September 2, in wake of the sexual harassment charges, the Supreme Court directed the additional solicitor general to ensure that the woman and her younger brother get admission to a different law college in Bareilly.
Law student¡¯s lawyer Kalwinder Singh told TOI, ¡°The Supreme Court had clearly indicated that it was a special case as studies were not possible in Chinmayanand¡¯s institution. Directions were given to the Bar Council of India for accommodating her transfer to the Bareilly college. If the university doesn¡¯t allow her to appear for her exams, it may be contempt of the SC order. The court of CJM has also granted permission to the law student to appear for her exams and instructed the jail superintendent to send the woman to Bareilly in police custody.¡±
MJPRU vice-chancellor Anil Shukla said told TOI, ¡°The woman didn¡¯t even come for a day after admission and we cannot change laws for just one student. We have not received any direction either from the high court or Supreme Court to allow her to appear for her examination despite zero attendance. There were directions for giving her admission which we did. Even the district court didn¡¯t allow her any exemption in the attendance clause. In case any of the higher courts gives us direction then we will conduct her examination considering it to be a special case.¡±
The law student, along with her three other friends was charged under IPC sections 385 (extortion), 506 (criminal intimidation), 201 (disappearance of evidences) and 35 (criminal act done with a criminal knowledge or intention) and section 67 of the Information Technology Act for allegedly extorting Rs 5 crore from Chinmayanand.
Chinmayanand was arrested on September 20 and booked under sections 376C (sexual intercourse by person in authority), 342 (wrongful confinement), 354D (stalking) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC on the basis of the complaint filed by the 23-year-old woman who studied law at a college run by his ashram.
