Book woman for false gang-rape case: Rohtak court

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 23

Two men were arrested and sent to jail nearly six months ago on a complaint by  a young woman that they had kidnapped her and gang-raped her for several days. However, it has now come to light that the woman had married one of them and the other was a witness to their marriage ceremony.

Strangely, neither the complainant nor the police officials investigating the matter had apprised the Rohtak court about her marriage to one of the accused. Meanwhile, the complainant’s husband and his friend remained in jail for nearly six months. While husband Kuldeep, a resident of Dighal village in Jhajjar district, is still lodged in jail under judicial custody, his friend Amit has been granted bail by court.

Taking serious note of the matter, Special Judge-cum-Rohtak Additional Sessions Judge Rajinder Pal Goyal has directed the Rohtak SP to register an FIR against the woman for cheating and making a false case of gang-rape against the two men.  

On March 15, the woman’s mother lodged a complaint with the police stating that her 22-year-old daughter had gone missing from a computer centre. An FIR was registered on her complaint. Later, the “victim” alleged that Kuldeep and Amit kidnapped her from the computer centre and took her to Dighal and then to Gurugram. She alleged that they kept her in a paying-guest accommodation, gave her some intoxicant and raped her repeatedly for several days. Kuldeep and Amit were booked on the charges of  kidnapping and rape, were arrested and sent to jail under judicial custody.

“The woman did not tell the court that she had married Kuldeep at the Arya Samaj Mandir in New Delhi on March 19. Amit was a witness to the marriage ceremony. The couple even moved the District and Sessions Court in Gurugram for police protection and directions to the parents of the woman not to harass them or interfere in their married life,” said Rajbir Singh Kayat, lawyer for Kuldeep and Amit.