The district and sessions court of Shahjahanpur on Friday reserved its order on a plea filed by the special investigation team (SIT) probing into cases against former union minister Swami Chinmayanand and the law student who levelled sexual assault allegations at him to bring all the five accused to Lucknow for voice sampling.
While the law student has accused Chinmayanand of rape and blackmail, the former minister has alleged that she and three others sent him an extortion message.
All the five accused, currently in judicial custody, had objected to the SIT’s plea to take them to Lucknow on police remand.
An official requesting anonymity said, “Voice sampling is must for both the cases. If the court permits, all the accused -- Chinmayanand, the woman, Sachin, Sanjay and Vikram -- will be brought to Lucknow for the test.”
The court heard their respective counsels’ arguments on Friday and reserved its order.
Earlier, the SIT had submitted before the court that it had to gather more information from the electronic evidences collected in both the rape and the extortion cases.
Probe officials said that some video clips that surfaced during the investigation had been made case property in addition to the 64 GB pen-drive given by the victim to the sleuths. In some of these videos, which were widely shared on the social media, there were allegedly some obscene conversations between the woman and Chinmayanand.
{{/usCountry}}Probe officials said that some video clips that surfaced during the investigation had been made case property in addition to the 64 GB pen-drive given by the victim to the sleuths. In some of these videos, which were widely shared on the social media, there were allegedly some obscene conversations between the woman and Chinmayanand.
{{/usCountry}}Another video, which relates to the extortion case, reportedly showed the woman, three others and the driver in a car. The woman and her three companions are allegedly heard discussing the extortion demand that Chinmayanand received on August 22. Driver Anoop claimed to have shot the video and reportedly later confirmed the woman’s involvement in the extortion demand.