A woman in Hyderabad has admitted to filing afalse complaint against her neighbour and his two friends. Thecomplainant, 30, is a resident of Saleh Nagar and a divorcee. She lives withher two children and works as a domestic worker to earn her livelihood.
Two days ago, she approached the Golcondapolice and lodged a complaint in which she accused the owner of a grocery shopin her locality and his two friends of gang-raping her. She alleged thethree took her out in a car under the pretext of showing her residentialproperty for rent and gang-raped her.
The police started investigating the entirematter. “During the course of investigation, the complainant admitted that theallegations are false. There was a personal reason behind making falsifiedclaims,” confirmed ACP RG Siva Maruthi.
“The woman used to borrow money from one ofher acquaintances. The lender had also previously given her money for groceryand other essentials when she was going through financial crises. Similarly,when she needed Rs 10,000, she asked him again, but he denied. The enragedcomplainant, in order to acquire money from him at any cost, hatched a plan toterrify him for whom she expected him to lend him the money,” said DCP IqbalSiddiqui.
Iqbal added, further, “She lodged thecomplaint on Friday. She confessed on Sunday saying that her allegations werefalse. We are waiting for legal opinion from the court to execute punishmentfor her falsified claims.”
On the basis of complaint filed by the woman,a case was registered under Indian Penal Code and the woman was sent formedical examination. But now, the case took a turn as woman has herselfconfessed that she has filed a false complaint. The police have sought legalopinion for taking appropriate action.