The Special Investigation Team appointed by the Supreme Court has recently probed the three male friends of the rape victim in connection with the alleged charges on Swami Chinmayanand. Apart from this, the SIT also probed some employees from the victim’s college. The examined friends include the one friend who was with her when she was in Rajasthan after she went missing, late in the last month. He and the two other friends were present inside the car when the rape victim had made a video recording, narrating about her ordeal.  

The SIT called the friends of the victim to the Police Lines and recorded their statements. They also examined the principals of her alma mater, which include, a law college and a post-graduate college, both located on the campus of Mumukshu Ashram of former Union Minister Chinmayanand. Additionally, SIT also examined two other college employees, who had been summoned on Saturday but failed to turn up for the recording of their statements. The victim, on Saturday, gave a pen drive containing 43 videos to the SIT to support her allegations after the sleuths asked her to submit whatever evidence she had against the former Union minister.

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Victim's father claims conspiracy

The girl's father, meanwhile, termed the leakage of the video footage given to the SIT by his daughter as a 'conspiracy.' He said that he would request the Supreme Court to order a probe into it. "From where have the screenshots and videos come to social media? The screenshots have been posted even on various social media platforms. These were given to the SIT by my daughter. This is a conspiracy," he said. 

Read: Chinmayanand case: Student gives pen drive with videos to SIT

Swami Om supports Chinmayanand 

Swami Om claimed the victim had met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi and it was because of their support that zero FIR was lodged against Chinmayanand. He said, “If any false case is registered against Chinamayanand, then crores of Hindus will hit the streets throughout the country and rise in rebellion”. The ex-contestant on the reality TV show Bigg Boss, also added, “The UP government must not register any case of rape against Chinmayanand and if it has been lodged, it must be withdrawn." On Friday, SIT took the victim to Chinmayanand's bedroom on Friday morning and had collected various pieces of evidence and quizzed her mother on Saturday.

(With PTI Inputs)

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