Police have filed an FIR against a 21-year-old maid who had accused her employer's 11-year-old son of raping her.

The Juvenile Justice Board in Delhi found her allegations 'highly unlikely' to be true.

The woman had entered a contract to work as a domestic help at the child's house for about a year.

The Juvenile Justice Board in Delhi found her allegations 'highly unlikely' to be true

She alleged that in the absence of his parents, the boy would misbehave with her, push her down on the bed, and rape her.

She also claimed that the boy would lie down on top of her and even physically assault her.

Witnessing anomalies in her statement and based on the investigation which revealed that she had filed the case with an 'oblique motive', principal magistrate Murari Prasad Singh directed the police to file an FIR against her.

The police booked her for giving false information to a public servant and also putting false charges against the boy.

The woman alleged that the boy used to threaten her with his bat and even blackmailed her, saying that if she revealed any of this to his family members she would lose her job.

She told the police that she faced assault at the hands of the boy for four continuous days and, fed up with this, she went back to the placement agency.

The agency staff took her to the police on April 9 last year. 'We should bear in mind that the child in this case is of tender age of 11 years.

'It also appears to be highly unlikely that an adult of 21- 22 years would not put up any resistance whatsoever on being physically and sexually assaulted by a child of such a tender age.

'The fact in her medical report that she had been beaten by a bat by the child was not even stated in the FIR,' the magistrate said.

The court also observed that the maid stated that the sister of the child's mother was at home and it is unlikely that she would not have noticed any of the alleged occurrences for four consecutive days.

During the investigation, police also found that the maid had collected Rs 40,000 from the family but worked for only four days.

When she was called and asked to work, she threatened to file a complaint.

The court said the case was filed with an oblique motive. 'The maid resorted to file a false case against the child who had not even turned 12 years,' said the magistrate.

'Such orders send a firm and a clear message in society that criminal law should not be exploited by anyone. In this case, an 11- year-old boy's life plunged into jeopardy because of a false accusation by an adult.

'Probably, it will take a long time for the child to recover from this tragedy,' said Anant Asthana, lawyer and child rights activist.

The Juvenile Justice Board in India has sole authority to deal with matters concerning children in conflict with law.

A JJB has to be constituted for each district or group of districts, and consists of two social workers and a judicial magistrate.