Former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, against whom a law student had levelled rape charges, was discharged from hospital on Monday. He was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow.
Delhi HC Bail Order in Rape Case May Have Flouted Supreme Court Ban On Outing Victim s Statement
The order granting anticipatory bail to Varun Hiremath quotes extensively from the victim s statement recorded under Section 164 CrPC even though the SC made it clear in the Chinmayanand case last year that no one is entitled to a copy at this stage.
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New Delhi: On Thursday, Justice Mukta Gupta of the Delhi high court granted anticipatory bail to a Mumbai-based journalist accused of rape in a 19-page order which quotes extensively from the victim’s statement recorded before a magistrate under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Realising that the bail order may thus have compromised the complainantâs right to confidentiality till the conclusion of the trial, Justice Gupta directed that the order not be uploaded on the court’s website.