UP Girl Goes Missing Days After Accusing BJP Leader Swami Chinmayanand Of Harassment In Shahjahanpur

The girl, who had accused former union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Swami Chinmayanand of harassing her, has gone missing in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur. Chinmayanand is the director of the Swami Shukdevanand Law College in Shahjahanpur, where the girl was studying. On August 23, the girl had posted a video on social media alleging that BJP leader is threatening to kill her as she has some evidence against him. Requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for help, the girl said, “I am a student from SS College pursuing LLM. A big leader of the saint society, who has destroyed the lives of several girls, has been threatening me with life. I have all the evidence against him.” The girl has been untraceable since August 24. Her parents have filed a missing complaint with the police and have blamed the college director and BJP leader for it. Her father said that she didn’t tell them anything. He, however, said that she looked worried when she visited her home on Raksha Bandhan. Swami Chinmayanand was a minister of state (MoS) for internal security in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. In 2018, UP government decided to withdraw rape case lodged against Chinamayanand. The FIR was lodged on November 30, 2011, on the complaint of a girl who had spent many years at his ashram.