Uttar Pradesh: Woman, lawyers arrested for lodging false rape complaint to extort money; 3.75 lakh recovered from accused

A 28-year-old woman and three lawyers have been arrested for lodging a false complaint of rape against a 20-year-old boy. The accused allegedly committed the crime to extort money from the victim. They have been booked under various IPC sections including 195 (Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment)
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Agra: A woman (28) and three lawyers have been arrested for lodging a false complaint of rape against a 20-year-old boy at Hari Parvat police station. The accused attempted to blackmail the victim into paying Rs 5 lakhs to settle the issue. A total amount of Rs 3.75 lakh was recovered from their possession, reported news agency IANS.
According to Police officials, the woman had filed a police complaint on June 24 claiming that the victim Rahul Sikarvar, her acquaintance, had invited her for celebrating his birthday at a hotel. She alleged that he mixed some intoxicants in her cold drink and then raped her. She mentioned in her complaint that Rahul had recorded a video and threatened to make it public so she wouldn’t tell anyone about the incident. Police had registered an FIR under various IPC sections including 376 (punishment for rape) reported IANS.
During the investigation, the complaint was found to be fake and it was revealed that the woman and her three lawyers, Jitendra Rajput, Nishant Kumar, and Shekhar Pratap Singh, had conspired against Rahul to extort Rs 5 lakhs from him. The Station house officer of Hari Parvat police station, Arvind Kumar, said on Thursday that the woman and three lawyers have been booked under IPC Sections 195 (Giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of offence punishable with imprisonment for life or imprisonment), 384 (extortion), 385 (Putting person in fear of injury in order to commit extortion) and 420 (cheating).
All of them have been sent to judicial custody after they were arrested on Wednesday. Two other lawyers including Rahul's lawyer Avinash Vaishya, who helped the complainants, are still at large, reported IANS.
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