The interim anticipatory bail was granted to Chinmayanand till the next date of listing on 6 February, on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh, along with two sureties.
The woman categorically denied that she had levelled any allegation against Chinmayanand as the prosecution had charged, leading to a case of perjury against her.
The 23-year-old law student was booked for extortion after former union minister Chinmayanand accused her and three others of blackmailing him for Rs 5 crore.
Former Union minister Chinmayanand is in jail on charges of sexually assaulting a law student. The SIT is also looking into the case of the student allegedly extorting Chinmayanand.
Authorities are running parallel investigations into BJP leader Chinmayanand, accused of rape, and his accuser, a UP law student suspected of blackmailing the politician.
Set up by Lal bahadur Shastri, the Santhanam Committee's key concern was that corruption, once limited to the lower rungs of the bureaucracy, had now infected the All India Services and political leadership.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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