<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, a district court at Shahjahanpur today dismissed the bail pleas of BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand and the law student who has accused him of rape.<br />'' <br />'' The two were sent to 14-day-judicial custody after being arrested in cases, now running parallel.<br />'' <br />'' The former Union minister was booked for rape, on the basis of the complaint filed by the 23-year-old woman who studies at a college run by his ashram.<br />'' <br />''<br />''She has been charged with extortion, following a complaint by Chinmayanand's lawyer that she and three others were demanding money from the BJP leader.</span><br />