Maharashtra: Nagpur woman cooks up fake gang-rape story to marry partner

A 19yearold woman allegedly lodged a fake police complaint of gangrape in a bid to marry her boyfriend keeping the Nagpur police on their toes for the entire day officials said on TuesdayOver 1000 security personnel including Nagpur Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar and other senior officials investigated the case here in Maharashtra on Monday after the woman lodged the complaint at Kalamna police station around 11 am they saidAfter going through the footage of more than 250 CCTVs across the city the investigators arrived at the conclusion that she had cooked up the gangrape story The woman later told the police that she did it to marry her boyfriend a senior police official said but did not divulge on what were her exact plansEarlier the woman in her police complaint alleged that she was raped by two persons at an isolated area near Chikhali areaShe claimed that the two persons came in a white coloured van and asked her about the road to Butibori when she was going to attend a music class in Ramdaspeth area in the morningThe men then forcibly took her into the van and covered her face with a cloth The abductors took her to an isolated place and allegedly raped her the official said quoting her complaintSensing the gravity of the matter the city police immediately launched a probe into itThe Kalamna police registered an offence against unidentified persons under relevant sections of the Indian Penal CodeCommissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar Additional CP Sunil Phulari and other senior officials rushed to the Sitabuldi police station for the probe into the caseKumar ordered formation of 40 special teams comprising more than 1000 police personnel to check the footage of CCTVs vans in the city and to question friends of the woman while she was sent to Mayo Hospital for a medical examination the official saidHe said after more than six hours of hectic efforts and questioning of over 50 people the police concluded that the woman had concocted the gangrape storyFrom the CCTV footage it came to light that the woman alighted from a bus at the Variety square at 950 am walked up to the Jhansi Rani square at 10 am boarded an autorickshaw at the Anand Talkies square at 1015 am and got down from the threewheeler at the Mayo Hospital at 1025 am the official saidShe later boarded a shared autorickshaw and alighted at the Chikhali square at 1054 amA CCTV camera installed at a petrol pump captured her walking towards the Kalamna police station at 1104 am the official saidAfter getting the facts in hand the police questioned the woman and asked her if she had cooked up the story The woman told the police that she did it to marry her boyfriend he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever