Chinmayanand vs law student case: Allahabad HC says not sure who exploited whom

The Allahabad high court, which granted bail to former BJP MP Chinmayanand, who was accused of sexually exploiting a law student, said in its order that both-Chinmayanand and the girl-appeared to be using each other.

Justice Rahul Chaturvedi, who delivered the order, said that "both the parties crossed their limits and at this stage, it is very difficult to adjudicate as to who exploited whom?? In fact, both of them used each other".

"The family members of Miss "A" (the girl) were being benefited out of the solipsistic behaviour of the accused applicant (Chinmayanand)," the court said further.

The court found it surprising that "during the period of the alleged atrocities committed upon Miss "A" she did not make any complaint or even any whisper to her family members against the accused applicant".

"It was a complete matter of quid pro quo but over a span of time the greed for extracting more, she along with her accomplices seems to have advanced for hatching a conspiracy against the applicant and tried to blackmail him for ransom, through the obscene video clips recorded by herself," it said.

It also observed that there was no direct contact between the daughter and her father."The relationship between father and the daughter seems to be quite strange as they were having no direct contacts and were alien to each other and the father was taking stock of the situation of his daughter through her Facebook account," the court added.

The court further said that the girl, who wanted to pursue Masters in Law, but as her merit was too low in the admission test/graduation (LL.B.) course, she developed contacts with Chinmayanand, who was the Rector of the Law College.

"The applicant, using his good authority and offices, got Miss "A" admitted in the aforesaid Law College and not only this he purchased and gifted a Scooty and her boarding was also arranged in the OBC hostel of the College," it added.

Chinmayanand was arrested in September last year on charges of sexually exploiting a law student of a college of which he was the director.

The law student had been granted bail by the Allahabad high court last month. The seer had alleged that the law student and her two friends tried to blackmail him by threatening to make the 'videos' public.