Daijiworld Media Network - Uttar Pradesh (SR)
Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Sep 4: The BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand, who is accused of harassment, on Wednesday said that he has full faith in the judiciary. On Tuesday, the UP government constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate charges against him by a Shahjahanpur woman.
He was facing the media for the first time after the FIR was filed against him by a female law student and her family in UP's Shahjahanpur. Talking to the media he said, "I have full faith in the judiciary and I will say whatever I have to say before the SIT, the matter is in the Supreme Court. An SIT has been constituted."
He even asked the reporters to switch off their cameras "I will not talk to the electronic media. What will you do?," he asked at the press conference .
The Special Investigation Team, constituted by the Uttar Pradesh government, will be headed by an IG-rank police officer who will look into the two cross FIRs filed in the high-profile case.
The UP Police had visited Haridwar to trace Chinmayanand after charges were filed against him by the Shahjahanpur police when the female student went missing following her allegation in a video clip that she was being harassed.