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A lawyer has accused a senior from Lucknow of raping her in his chamber on 24 July.
After the accused government counsel Shailendra Singh Chauhan challenged the FIR, the Allahabad High Court directed the UP Police to not arrest him.
The court also restrained Chauhan from indulging in any sort of intimidation to the life or property of the complainant.
Chauhan is the additional chief standing counsel in the Lucknow Bench of the high court. He is also the standing counsel for the Lucknow Municipal Corporation in the high court.
The Division Bench of Justices AR Masoodi and Rajeev Singh at Lucknow passed the order in response to a writ petition filed by the accused, Shailendra Singh Chauhan, challenging the FIR.
The woman said that there was a delay in registering the case and in getting her medically examined.
Investigating Officer Jainendra Kumar alleges that the female lawyer made a lot of changes in the FIR because of which it got delayed.
"We wrote the FIR, then she made some changes. We wrote it the second time and she changed the details again. We can't make so many changes in the FIR. We sent her for medical examination soon after writing the FIR," said the Investigating Officer.
The woman also alleges that the judges in the court had already practised with Chauhan and so they all favoured him. She complained that so far, neither has the accused been removed from his position nor has any action been taken against him.
On 5 August, the SC stayed the high court's order that granted Chauhan interim relief from arrest, holding that from a bare perusal of the FIR, a case for intervention in favour of the accused was made out.
"The honourable Supreme Court has passed a stay order on the high court order. Now the case lies in two concurrent courts, one in the high court and the other in the Supreme Court. The matter is pending," said Chauhan's lawyer.
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