Police conducting raids to trace ex-Union minister Swami Chinmayanand
Shahjahanpur (UP), Dec 17 (PTI): Police are conducting raids to trace former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand, who has been declared as an absconder by a court here.
Superintendent of Police S Anand told PTI on Saturday that the directives of the MP-MLA court are being complied with. "Chinmayanand was not found at his address. We are conducting raids to trace him. We will soon find him and produce him in the court," he said.
Government lawyer Neelima Saxena said the MP-MLA court declared Chinmayanand as an absconder on December 15.
Saxena added that the court has directed the Shahjahanpur SP to produce Chinmayanand before it on January 16 and that the directive be pasted on the former Union minister's house as well as public places.
An official posted at the Kotwali police station said raids are being conducted to trace Chinmayanand and the same is being mentioned in the general diary, but Chinmayanand is absconding from his Mumukshu Ashram.
Chinmayanand's lawyer Hasan Khan said that action against his client was taken under Section 82 of the CrPC (proclamation for person absconding), but Chinmayanad is 76 years old, suffering from various ailments and recently underwent an eye operation in Hyderabad.
"He has high blood pressure and diabetes. He wanted to appear in court on December 15. However, his health condition deteriorated and as a result, he could not be brought to the court. His interim bail plea is to be heard by the High Court on December 19," Khan said.
Senior advocate Anoop Trivedi said that Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) pertains to proclamation for a person absconding.
In 2011, on a complaint from one of his disciples, a case of sexual exploitation was registered against Mumukshu ashram founder Chinmayanand.
The Uttar Pradesh government had, in 2018, sent a letter to the court through the district magistrate to withdraw the case, but the victim had objected to it.
The application for withdrawal was dismissed by the court and a bailable warrant was issued against the former Union minister.
Chinmayanand had then filed an appeal in the high court for the withdrawal of the case. Once the high court rejected his appeal, he approached the Supreme Court, but the top court also rejected his appeal.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
