Gonda woman lodges fake abduction case, held

Lucknow: A festering land feud between two neighbours in Gonda led a 20-year-old woman, Shaira, to spin a kidnapping story and lodge a fake complaint with Gonda police. Shaira, who tried to frame his father’s rival, Buddhu, was arrested on Wednesday after her cover blew up.
On Monday, the girl walked up to the Wazirganj police station in Gonda and told police she had wriggled out of the clutches of her captors after she was sedated and bundled into a SUV by Buddhu and his accomplices and driven to a desolate place.Police tracked Buddhu’s location in Delhi on the day, the girl claimed she was abducted. Cops also found he was locked in a protracted land dispute with Shaira’s father, who had vowed to throw him behind bars.
Superintendent of police, Gonda, Shailesh Pandey, who supervised the probe said, Shaira stated in her complaint she was kidnapped while returning home from college and driven to an isolated place from where she escaped when her captors got busy in morning chores.
“A named FIR was lodged and teams were formed to crack the case. During investigations, we found nobody came to lodge a missing complaint from the girl’s family and the location of those named in the FIR were found to be in Delhi. We also unearthed that girl’s father, Munawar, had a land dispute with his neighbour, Buddhu, and wanted to muzzle him by trapping him in a kidnapping case,” said the officer. To recreate the crime scene, a woman inspector was told to take Shaira to the spot where she was purportedly abducted and the location from where she fled. However, Shaira failed to locate the crime spots, raising suspicion among investigators.
“After Shaira was arrested, she broke down and spilled the beans. She also named her father as a co-conspirator,” the SP said.