UP woman, kin arrested for fake gang-rape case in Rajasthan

ALWAR: The Sadar police of Alwar on Saturday arrested a woman of Meerut and her brother-in-law for blackmailing and lodging fake FIR implicating two men for gangrape at Siliserh.
Police investigation contradicted the woman’s claims that she was gang-raped by two youths from whom she sought lift in a car as her relative’s bike broke down midway.
Police in its investigation concluded that 24-year-old woman along with her brother-in-law Ravi Yadav and one Deepak Meena had planned to blackmail and extort Rs 1.5 lakh from two youths who were implicated of rape.
“We have arrested the woman and her relative Ravi Yadav while the accused Deepak Meena who had invited two men from Delhi by car to trap them in a rape case is still at large,” said Tejaswini Gautam, Superintendent of police, Alwar.
The woman had lodged a case on September 8 stating that she was raped near Siliserh in car.
“After the complaint no evidence of rape was found in the medical examination of two accused youth and of woman. That’s when we were suspicious on the “rape theory”. Woman and her brotherin-law were sternly questioned and interrogated in which it was found that woman, her brother-in-law and one Deepak Meena conspired in Delhi of blackmail someone. They had planned to bring somebody to Rajasthan and task was assigned to Deepak Meena,” the SP added.
“It was planned that after the arrival of youths from Delhi, the girl will go along with them and implicate them of rape and had planned that they will settle the case after getting Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh,” the officer added.
As per plan Ravi Yadav after arriving at Alwar brought the girl near Siliserh on a bike. “The woman asked for lift and later lodged the case of rape,” said an officer.
Police have arrested the accused Ravi Yadav and the woman.