A city-based woman tried to extort money from a noted industrialist using false allegations of rape, the city police claimed.

According to an official press statement issued here today by the police, one week ago, a middle-aged woman approached the Navrangpura police station and asked officials to lodge a complaint against a 69-year-old industrialist for raping her 15 years ago, adding that the industrialist is the father of her teenage daughter.

The police started investigations before filing an FIR, since the case involved a reputed Indian businessman.

According to the police, the woman had sent similar petitions to different heads of police earlier, demanding action against the industrialist for allegedly raping her.

After a week-long investigation, the city police issued a press release today, which gave a clean chit to the industrialist and put the woman in the dock, alleging that she had attempted to blackmail him in order to extort money from him.

In one of her petitions, she claimed that the industrialist had called her on her mobile phone when he was on a visit to Mumbai and called her to the Great Maratha Hotel, where both of them had sexual intercourse.

According to the police, she gave two different dates in her two seperate petitions, which made them suspicious. In one petition, she mentioned April 1999, while in another petition, it was May 2000.

"However, when we checked, we came to know that the hotel which was mentioned came into existance only in 2001. Further, the number she claimed to be hers, on which the man called her, was activated in October 2000, while the mobile number of the businessman got activated only in August 2013.

"So there is no question of calls going from that number to her during the period she mentioned," the police statement said.