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Nagpur: In Nagpur, Maharashtra, a 19-year-old woman while trying to marry her lover filed a fake complaint of gang rape with the police, due to which the Nagpur police deployed its personnel to investigate the matter. Over 1,000 security personnel, including Nagpur Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar and other senior officials, investigated the matter here on Monday, officials said on Tuesday.
The girl lodged a complaint at Kalmana police station around 11 am. Investigators came to the conclusion that the woman had fabricated a gang rape story after scanning over 250 CCTV footages from across the city, a senior police officer said. Later the woman told the police that she did this to marry her lover.
The officer did not say what the girl’s actual plans were. Earlier, in her complaint to the police, the woman alleged that she was raped by two men at a secluded place near Chikhali area.
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She claimed that when she was going to attend her music learning class in Ramdaspeth area in the morning, these two men came in a white colored van and asked her the way to Butibori. After this, the two men forcibly dragged her into the van and covered her face with a cloth, the officer said, quoting the girl’s complaint. The kidnappers took her to a secluded place and allegedly raped her.
Realizing the seriousness of the matter, the city police immediately started investigation. The Kalmana police registered a case against unknown persons under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code. Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police Sunil Phulari and other senior officers reached Sitabardi police station to investigate the matter.
The official said Kumar constituted 40 special teams of over 1,000 policemen to check CCTV footage, van vehicles in the city and interrogate the woman’s friends, while the woman was sent to Mayo Hospital for medical examination.
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He said that after more than six hours of hard work and interrogation of more than 50 people, the police came to the conclusion that the woman had fabricated a story of gang rape. The official said that from the CCTV footage it was found that the woman got down from a bus at Variety Chowk at 9.50 am, walked towards Jhansi Rani Chowk at 10 am, she took an auto rickshaw from Anand Talkies Chowk at 10.15 am. Took it and got down at Mayo Hospital at 10:25 in the morning.
After this she took another auto rickshaw and got down at Chikhali Chowk at 10:54 am. The woman was seen walking towards Kalmana police station at 11:04 am in a CCTV camera installed at a petrol pump, he said. He told that after getting this information, the police questioned the woman and asked her whether she had fabricated this story. The woman told the police that she did this to marry her lover. (agency)