Lucknow, Sept. 21 -- Within 48 hours of the victim threatening to immolate herself, the Special Investigation Team arrested former Union Minister of State for Home Swami Chinmayanand, who has been accused of rape by the law student of Shahjahanpur.
After the arrest, the SIT took Chinmayanand for medical examination and thereafter produced him before Chief Judicial Magistrate Omveer Singh who sent him to judicial custody for 14 days.
Later, disclosing the development to the media, the SIT claimed that the accused had confessed of sexual harassment and also said "main sharminda hoon, (I am ashamed)" to apologise for his act.
Swami Chinmayanand, however, has so far not been booked for raping the girl as alleged by her in her statement befor...