Jalahalli

kidnapping

21-year-old woman set off alarm bells for the police when she walked into thepolice station at 4 am and said she had been gang-raped inside a van. She claimed she was sedated by a woman when she was travelling in an auto, and then shifted to a van where two men raped her.She claimed that she somehow managed to escape from their clutches. However, she kept changing her statements and the police got suspicious. It was then that the woman spilled the beans and admitted she had filed a false rape case as she had not gone home in the night. Police claimed she did this to hoodwink her husband and family. The police took the woman, a resident of Jalahalli, to a hospital for a mandatory checkupShe claimed that a woman and her son accosted her for help near the Jalahalli government school around 5 pm the previous day. The boy was injured, she said, and his mother requested her to take him to a nearby hospital. While in an auto to a nearby hospital, the unidentified woman sprayed some chemical on her face, she claimed. After regaining consciousness, she found herself in a van with two men, she told the police.“There was no need to doubt the woman’s statements at the time she filed the complaint. We suspected it could be a new type of racket targeting lone women,them and subsequently raping them to extort money from them by blackmailing them. But when her statements were being recorded, she confessed she had filed a false complaint,” said a police officer. Before the confession, the woman caused quite a flutter. She called her mother claiming she had been gang-raped. Then she called her family members and repeated the charge.“The woman has some disputes at home and had not gone home overnight. In order to convince her family members, she fabricated a false rape charge,” said Chethan Singh Rathor, DCP (North). Following her false complaint, the Jalahalli police had registered a case of gang rape (IPC 376D) and kidnap (IPC 366). They will now have to file a closure report.