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Chinmayanand admitted to Lucknow hospital, SIT submits report to special bench of Allahabad HC

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The Special Investigation Team(SIT) investigating the Shahjahanpur rape case submitted its progress report to the special bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday while the main accused, former Union minister and jailed godman Swami Chinmayanand, was rushed to the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lukhnow for immediate medical attention and was admitted to the ICU immediately.

Sources said that the self-styled godman was rushed from Shahjahanpur jail and admitted in the ICU of the Cardiology ward in SGPGIMS. Senior cardiologist Dr P K Goyal is treating Chinmayanand and the hospital is likely to issue a health bulletin in sometime.

Meanwhile, the SIT has submitted its status or progress report in the special bench of the High court on Monday. The victim too is in Prayagraj and is expected to move an anticipatory bail application.

The SIT team, led by IG Naveen Arora, is present in the court and had submitted the progress report along with pen-drive, CD and other evidences in a sealed packet. The court is likely to give its ruling after hearing the case. The SIT had already filed an FIR against the 23-year-old woman along with her three friends in blackmailing and extortion case.

Three youths were also arrested by the SIT so far and there are apprehensions that the police could arrest the after they submit the status report in the HC.

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