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said was intoafter deal withwent badTumakuru police have ruled out the allegation of a 28-year-old woman that she was gang raped by a gang of five men in a SUV on national highway 4 on Tuesday night. The cops however said the woman was into flesh trade and had consensual sex with two men in their car after they had picked her up on Tumakuru bypass. Police have arrested the two men, identified as Kareem Pasha alias Totlukere Pasha alias Papu 30 a resident of Chikkatotlukere, Shafi Ulla 28, a resident of Gerahalli based on the woman’s complaint but said she had cooked up the gang rape story.They have also arrested V Raju, 45, an autorickshaw driver and resident of Antharasanahalli for robbing the woman of her mobile earlier in the night of the incident. The woman, a resident of Laggere in city, had alleged that she was gang raped by a gang, which also include a woman, in their Tata Sumo. However, the cops had been wary of her allegations as she kept on changing her statements. The case took a u-turn with the medical report proving that there was no forceful intercourse. The woman was also under the influence of alcohol at the time the incident happened, police said.Tumakuru SP, Karthik Reddy, said, “The statements of the woman were not matching. There was no woman present in the vehicle as had been alleged by her.” The cops said that the woman was into flesh trade and had cooked up the story about the gang rape. The only true fact of her story was that her mobile had been robbed by an auto rickshaw driver, the cops said.When police apprehended Raju, the autorickshaw driver, he told them that the woman had hired his vehicle to take her to a place. On the way the woman opened up a liquor bottle and got drunk, Raju told the cops. On reaching the destination, the woman refused to get down and had an argument with Raju, who took her back from the place where he had picked her up. Police said that it was at this point that the autorickshaw driver robbed the woman of her mobile phone, the cops said.According to the cops, Pasha and Shafi Ulla were travelling in their car when they saw the woman standing on the bypass. They made a deal with her to have sex with her in exchange for money. Then the woman got into the car and had consensual intercourse with them. But something went wrong between the woman and the duo, and they assaulted and pushed her out of the car near Hale Nijagal village. Since the woman did not want the fact that she was a prostitute become public, she cooked up the story about being gang raped, the cops said.Police said they will bring all these elements in the chargesheet, but as of now Shafi and Pasha have been arrested in connection with the complaint. Police said they are yet to decide on taking action against the woman for filing a false complaint.Speaking to BM, senior advocate, KBK Swamy, said that police can take action against the person making such false complaints. “Cases where the punishment is life imprisonment or more than 20 years, police have to book the false complainant. Why they are not doing is because the entire situation is feministic and virtually they are scared to make B-report for rape cases. There is a provision in IPC to book the false complainant and the police should execute their powers. Though the accused may come out clean, they cannot wash away the stigma of being labelled rapists.”