India police arrest former minister after rape claim

India police arrest former minister after rape claim https://ift.tt/32USg7f September 20, 2019 at 04:31PM Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/27ryfmF

Indian police Friday arrested a former minister from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party after he was accused of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman. Swami Chinmayanand, 73, a former internal affairs minister, is the second senior member of the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party to face sex charges in recent months. Chinmayanand runs several educational and welfare institutions in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and the victim was a student at one of his colleges, according to media reports.

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