Shahjahanpur: The Shahjahanpur court sent Union Former Minister Swamy Chinmayanand to 14 days judicial custody on the allegations of raping a law student in his college on Friday.

          According to the police sources the SIT of up police arrested him at around 08:50am from his ashram amid heavy security deployment. He was then produced at the court of chief judicial magistrate, which remanded him to judicial custody.

          Police said they have also arrested three other persons on charges of extorting money from Chinmayanand. “Chinmayanand was arrested his ashram. The SIT team arrested him and conducted a medical examination. He was produced in a court and sent to jail,” said director general of police O.P. Singh.

        The arrest comes nearly a month after the women, who is a student at one of the Chinmayanand’s colleges, leveled allegations against him.