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New Delhi
The bail proceeding of Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, accused of molesting 17 students astatine a backstage institute successful Vasant Kunj, deed a intermission connected Thursday aft the presiding justice recused himself from the case.
Additional Sessions Judge Atul Ahlawat of the Patiala House Court withdrew from proceeding the bail plea of the 62-year-old erstwhile manager of the Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management-Research. The crushed for the judge’s recusal was not immediately known.
Following the development, the substance was referred to the territory justice of Patiala House Courts for reassignment. According to tribunal sources, the bail exertion is present apt to beryllium heard connected Friday.
Mr. Saraswati was arrested by the Delhi constabulary past period and remains in judicial custody. A magisterial tribunal connected Wednesday passed an interim bid allowing him entree to nutrient without bulb and garlic, on with his spectacles and medicines.
According to constabulary complaints, Mr. Saraswati allegedly forced pistillate students to sojourn his quarters precocious astatine nighttime and sent them inappropriate messages astatine unusual hours. He is besides accused of monitoring the victims’ movements done his phone.
A constabulary probe revealed that the accused operated multiple slope accounts nether antithetic names and withdrew implicit ₹50 lakh aft the FIR was filed. The constabulary said helium had submitted documents with varying particulars to unfastened these accounts. Fake visiting cards claiming links to the United Nations and BRICS were besides recovered from him.
