A woman and three lawyers were arrested for allegedly extorting money in Agra, UP (Photo/ANI) Source The Print
False Case: ধর্ষণের মিথ্যা মামলা করার অভিযোগে এক মহিলা ও তাঁর তিন আইনজীবী সঙ্গীকে গ্রেফতার করল পুলিশ
আগ্রা: মিথ্যা ধর্ষণের অভিযোগ করায় গ্রেফতার করা হয়েছে এক মহিলাকে। যুবকের বিরুদ্ধে মিথ্যা মামলা সাজাতে ওই যুবতীকে সাহায্যের অভিযোগ উঠেছিল তিন আইনজীবীর বিরুদ্ধে। অভিযুক্ত তিন আইনজীবীকেও গ্রেফতার করেছে পুলিশ। ধর্ষণের মামলায় ফাঁসিয়ে নির্দোষ যুবককে ভয় দেখিয়ে তাঁর থেকে টাকা নেওয়ার অভিযোগও রয়েছে এই চার জনের বিরুদ্ধে। সম্প্রতি ঘটনাটি ঘটেছে উত্তর প্রদেশের আগ্রাতে। অভিযুক্ত চার জন জেল হেফাজতে রয়েছে বলে জানিয়েছে পুলিশ।
Lawyers from both sides (victim and accused) were found involved in extorting money (from the accused).
“A case of registering a fake case and extortion was registered and the woman complainant and three lawyers were arrested along with cash of Rs 3.75 lakh,” Agra Superintendent of Police said.
During interrogation, the names of two other lawyers, including a woman lawyer, also surfaced as co-accused.
“Search for them is underway. We are further investigating the matter,” the police official said. (ANI)
During investigation, the complaint was found to be fake and it turned out 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. Two other lawyers including Rahul’s lawyer Avinash Vaishya, who helped the victim's lawyer in the case, are still at large, said police.
Police said during interrogation, the woman said that out of Rs 5 lakh— her share was Rs two lakhs and the remaining amount was to be distributed among the lawyers including their fee. The amount of Rs 3.75 lakh was recovered from their possession, while the remaining amount had already been spent by them, said police.
Station house officer of Hariparwat police station, Arvind Kumar, told TOI that the woman and three lawyers were 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 extor¬tion) and 420 (cheating
Deepika Bhardwaj Unravels The 'Ayushi Bhatia Serial False Rape Case'
On Wednesday, December 29, the Gurugram Police busted a ‘honey trapping’ racket and arrested a 22-year-old woman named Ayushi Bhatia who has been accused of filing eight fake rape cases against eight men in the last year. The Gurugram police confirmed that the woman, reportedly a student of BA (Hons) in Atma Ram College, Delhi, confessed to committing the crime. She was produced in a city court on Wednesday and sent to judicial custody later.
The accused is heard saying in the audio clip shared by the journalist
that she has five ongoing cases in court where she has implicated
five boys who had established physical relationships with her. “In my
complaint, I stated unequivocally that the boy made promises, developed
relationships, and then abandoned me. Because some boys take advantage
of girls and then abandon them. Whatever you want to call it, this is my
work. I file a complaint against such men and send them to jail. The
family members of the boy persuaded me to take back the cases, but I did
not yield to their requests. Got every bail granted to him cancelled.
Later the High Court granted him bail.
According to media reports, a mother from Karnal filed a complaint
against Ayushi Bhatia at New Colony Police Station on Tuesday, December
28, alleging that her son was being charged in a fake sexual assault
case. Her son was seeking a place to rent in the Vijay Park
neighbourhood. He stumbled upon a sign advertising a vacant ‘To-let’ and
dialled the number on the sign. He moved there on October 15, but the
woman began contacting the boy regularly after a few days. When the boy
objected, Bhatia told him that if he didn’t marry her or give her money,
she would accuse him of assault.
From NDTV
The Recurring Pattern
The Logical Indian spoke to journalist Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, who brought the matter to light. Bhardwaj detailed how Bhatia ran the honey trapping racket. The woman met people on dating apps, at parties, gyms, clubs, and social media platforms; then cross-checked their background, friend list, and the people they were following. She would then meet them up in person, have consensual sexual intercourse, and later convict them of assaulting her until they adhered to her terms and conditions. The woman has filed subsequent FIRs against seven men on record. TLI accessed a short audio clip of Bhatia.
A Sufferer's Ordeal
Mahesh had approached Bhardwaj in October on Twitter to seek her help. The man explained he had multiple suicidal thoughts triggered by false accusations of incest. The 24-year-old met Ayushi Bhatia on a dating app, 'Happen', on August 21 and connected instantly. Four days later, Bhatia started blackmailing Mahesh by roping him into a false rape case. The latter went to the police station to file a complaint, but he was asked to approach the cybercrime cell of his jurisdiction and file a written complaint, as the crime was associated with an online dating application. By the time Mahesh could think of some other way, Bhatia started threatening him of filing a gang rape case against him and his friends, whom she had found on his friend's list if he did not marry her. To save himself and his friends, he eventually abided by her. Within ten days of marriage, Bhatia started fighting with him and held him back from leading a normal life. A few days later, Mahesh ran away, following which, the woman tried to file a rape case against him, following which he was called to the police station. He said the officers laughed at him for marrying Bhatia. The police revealed that the woman had filed at least five to six sexual assault cases with them, which shook Mahesh, as he was naive of Bhatia's pattern. The cops gave him the numbers of all the FIRs filed in the previous cases. Bhatia had charged people under section 375 (sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent, by coercion or fraud or at a time when she has been intoxicated or duped) and 376 (sexual assault) of IPC.
In a shocking instance of its kind, it has come to light that as many as seven FIRs were registered by Haryana Police under sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) relating to rape and outraging a woman’s modesty etc against different men at the instance of a 20-year-old Gurugram-based woman over the last few months.
Besides this, as per sources, she has demanded and received lakhs of rupees from an as-yet-undetermined number of men who were ‘honey-trapped’ by her and put in fear of such police cases.
The FIRs in question, registered at various police stations in Gurugram Police Commissionerate, include FIR no. 312/2020 lodged at Police Station (PS) Rajendra Park under IPC Sections 376 (Rape) and 506 (Criminal Intimidation); no. 662/2020 at PS Gurgaon Sadar under Sections 376 (2)(n), 506 and 323 (Voluntarily causing hurt); no. 418/2021 at PS Sector 10 under Sections 376 and 439; no. 156/2021 at PS New Colony under Section 376; no. 74/2021 at PS Sector 15 under Sections 376, 354A, 323 and 341 (Wrongful restraint); no. 17/2021 at PS Cyber under Section 509 (Insulting woman’s modesty) and Sections 66E and 67 of IT Act; and no. 269/2021 at PS DLF Phase 3 under Sections 376, 354 (Outraging modesty), 323 and 34 (Common intention).
Ayushi Bhatia engaged in a blackmail and extortion racket, taking money from men by ‘settling’ cases outside police stations while lodging FIRs against multiple men.
The Commission on October 22, 2021, wrote to the Commissioner of Police, Gurugram to furnish details of the FIRs and a report of an enquiry conducted by the police. On October 26, 2021, the officiating chairperson of the Commission, Preeti Bhardwaj Dalal, wrote to the Director General of Police, Haryana to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter.
“We presume this case has the linings of criminal activities which may be similar to sexpinage, extortion, femme fatale-honey trapping. This is a serious matter and requires urgent action and attention from your department,” she wrote.
Speaking to National Herald, Bhardwaj said that she came to know of the matter when a young man sought help from her. “The woman forced this man to marry her by threatening him that she’ll file a fake rape complaint against him. When I delved into the matter, the sordid details tumbled out. It became clear that she was running a well-organised racket of targeting men who were members of a gym or through dating apps etc. She is totally fearless and is conversant with nuances of criminal laws,” she said.
“She typically alleges that the man raped her on the pretext of marriage. I personally know of a man who paid her Rs 3.5 lakhs out of fear. How many others are there is unknown as of now. Only a thorough probe by the police can unravel all the details. It seems to be the proverbial tip of the iceberg,” she added.
Reached for her comments regarding the status of the formation of an SIT, Dalal said, “It has not been formed yet but we are following up on the matter. I have met Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij and he has assured me that the needful will be done.”
“Such misuse of laws by a woman is a serious issue. They are meant to help and protect women. Levelling of false rape allegations destroys the standing of the accused in society,” she added.
Delhi-based criminal lawyer Nishant Kumar Srivastava said “In fact, one can hear many stories in the corridors of court complexes around the country about well-organised and well-greased syndicate of such people including women, men and police officials who trap innocent males with a woman getting friendly and intimate with them. They later threaten to file false FIRs against them and extort money from the hapless male who faces loss of reputation and ruined family life – divorce by wife and hatred by children and relatives and friends – and above all his name being made public in the media overnight. Many of them end up ‘settling’ the matter in the police station itself after exchange of money,”
Asked about the legal consequences for such a woman filing false FIRs, Srivastava said, “The law is clear as to the legal consequences of setting the criminal action in motion maliciously and on false grounds. Section 211 (False charge of offence made with intent to injure) of the IPC deals with it and provides for a punishment of imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and also fine.”
This is not the first time that such ‘sextortion rackets’ have come to light. Just last month, Ghaziabad police arrested five members of a gang that allegedly extorted a whopping Rs 22 crore by targeting around 200 businessmen and senior executives after blackmailing them with images and videos of sex chats.
Spearheading the gang was a couple who had hired three women for a monthly 'salary' of Rs 25,000 and a share of the money they made.
As per media reports, the gang would open accounts on various social media platforms and send friend requests to men. After a few days of casual chats, they would share their WhatsApp numbers with the targets and ask them to make video calls. When they did, the accused would persuade them to strip. Screenshots and videos of the sex chats would be made and later used to blackmail the victims. Most of the victims coughed up the money and did not approach the police, fearing social stigma.
In another case, the Cyber Cell of Delhi Police last month arrested a 24-year-old man from Rajasthan who ran a ‘sextortion’ racket for a period of over one and a half years, extorting over Rs 30 lakh from over 300 male and female victims across the country.
The police said the accused, who studied just till class 10, targeted the victims through Facebook and WhatsApp, running the racket with assistance from three relatives and called it their “family business”. Their modus operandi was to blackmail people using their morphed photos in lewd images and videos
Karnal team of the State Vigilance Bureau caught Excise and Taxation Inspector Sumitra Godara from her office in Gurugram on Monday, said Sumit Kumar, Police Inspector of Karnal Vigilance Team "A building material supplier Mohit, a resident of Faridabad approached Sumitra Godara in her Gurugram office, she demanded a bribe of Rs 7 lakh for issuing the GST number and on Monday she called him to his office to pay the token money of Rs 2 lakh following which Mohit informed Vigilance Bureau," Inspector Kumar said.
The vigilance Bureau subsequently laid a trap to nab Godara and asked Mohit to offer the GST inspector an initial sum of Rs 2 lakh for the favour. As Mohit offered the money, the Vigilance Bureau team, waiting outside, nabbed her red-handed while taking a bribe," the police official said.
In Karnal, Haryana, ASI Sarita, a woman of Sector 32-33 police station, was caught red-handed by the Vigilance taking a bribe of Rs 4 lakh. The accused woman ASI had demanded 8 lakh in the name of removing the section of rape and removing the names of some youths from the case. Serious allegations have also been made against the DSP and SHO in the case.
ASI Sarita has already taken Rs 10,000 from the family members.
A woman of Sonkra village got married to the youth of Jundla village and both the villages do not fall under this police station, the family alleged in the complaint. They alleged the ASI was demanding Rs 8 lakh to remove various sections from the FIR.
On the complaint of the family members, who produced some audio recordings of demanding bribe, the vigilance bureau constituted a team led by woman inspector Parveen Kumari. The team members laid a trap and arrested her red-handed while accepting Rs 4 lakh.
Navjot Singh Sindhu told in the complaint that a woman had filed a false case against him. In which she alleged that he had raped her. The investigation of the matter was handed over to the DSP.
A call came from Sector-32 police station and called to meet him. When he met the woman ASA Sarita, he demanded Rs 10 lakh to remove the section on rape and to remove the names of some youths. On this, he said from where will he give 10 lakh rupees. After this, Sarita asked him for 8 lakh rupees and said that 4 lakh rupees have to be given first and 4 lakhs after the work is done.
After this complaint, a team was formed and Rs 4 lakh was given to the complainant with chemicals. As soon as he gave Rs 4 lakh to ASI Sarita, the team raided and arrested Sarita red-handed.
Vigilance will investigate the allegations
The complainant told Vigilance that the woman ASI had said that out of this Rs 4 lakh has to be given to the DSP and 3 lakh to the SHO. She will get only one lakh. At the same time, the lady policeman said that all this money has to be given in her hands. In the case, the complainant alleges that this matter is of another police station, while deliberately it is being brought to Sector 32-33 police station.
VIGILANCE CAUGHT RED HANDED JHAJJAR WOMAN ASI ACCEPTING A BRIBE OF RS 10 K
Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has caught a Woman Assistant Sub Inspector posted in Women Police Station, Jhajjar red-handed while accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000.
Accused ASI Poonam allegedly demanded money by threatening the complainant to implicate in the false rape case if he did not pay the money.
The complainant, who did not wish to pay the bribe, brought this matter to the notice of the Vigilance Bureau. After verifying the complaint, the Bureau team laid a trap and caught the accused ASI red-handed while accepting Rs 10,000.
BHOPAL: A 46-year-old woman and her 29-year-old son-in-law in Ashok Nagar district, in Madhya Pradesh, have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for falsely accusing their four neighbours of gang rape and fabricating evidence in support of her allegation, a senior public prosecutor said on Thursday.
The woman and her son-in-law were in a relationship and decided to frame their four neighbours in 2014 because she did not get along with them, additional district prosecutor Mohammad Azam of Ashok Nagar district, 150km from state capital Bhopal, said.
The First Information Report (FIR) was registered on her statement in August 2014. A DNA test to compare the semen sample from the woman’s clothes with that of her son-in-law, Gopal Rajak. Ashok Nagar’s first additional sessions judge Mahesh Kumar Chauhan sentenced the woman, Guddi Ojha and her son-in-law Gopal Rajak to serve 10 years in prison for fabricating evidence to secure a conviction and criminal conspiracy, six months in jail for giving false information to a public servant.
Police had arrested the accused after lodging the FIR under section 376 D. The medical report of the woman confirmed rape, and her clothes and vaginal swab were taken for further investigation,” Public prosecutor Jafar Qureshi said this was a rare case where the police charged a woman for filing a false case and fabricating evidence and pursued the case to its logical conclusion.
“During interrogation, Gopal Rajak confessed that he was in a relationship with Guddi and they filed a false case to implicate their neighbours, who used to fight with Guddi and Gopal on trivial issues,” police officer VP Singh Jat, who investigated the case, said. originally published
Second case
KOLKATA:
A 25-year-old woman, who falsely accused a neighbour of molestation and
attempted rape has been charged with perjury and sentenced to a month in jail
by the Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) of Bolpur in Birbhum.
Jul
17, 2013
The
woman claimed that on March 15 this year, when she was alone in her house, one
Ram Sardar grabbed her from behind and attempted to
rape her. When she raised an alarm, people rushed to the scene and Sardar
attempted to flee. The woman's brother-in-law allegedly tried to grab him but
the accused assaulted him and fled. Based on her complaint before the ACJM of
Bolpur, the Nanoor police station registered a case against
Sardar on April 3. He was arrested and charged with an attempt to rape.
Trouble
started when ADSJ Manas Basu started examining the witnesses, including the
alleged victim. She
deposed that she had lodged the complaint against Sardar as there was pressure
upon her from the parapeople. She claimed that Sardar is a good and well-behaved person and the contents of the written complaint are false.
The court found that none
of the witnesses corroborated the facts as stated by the woman in her initial
complaint.
On June 28, 2013, the ADSJ dropped all charges against Sardar and set him free. The judge was so displeased he moved a suo motu case against the woman, charging her with perjury for lying under oath under Section 344 of the CrPC.
"Considering the present position of the society and the anxiousness of the hon'ble apex court regarding atrocities on women, it is very relevant that women should not use the courts as their machine of blackmailing innocent people. The court must not be the puppet in the hands of the unscrupulous people.
The legislation has made provisions to prevent such practices which must be adopted by the courts in appropriate cases. This court gave a reasonable opportunity to the accused at the time of the evidence and is now setting the law in its course as admitted facts need to be proved (Chapter III of the Indian Evidence Act). The accused is found guilty under Section 344 of the CrPC for giving false evidence,"" the judge noted in his order.
On August 19, 2018, A woman had lodged a complaint at the Phoolbagan police station in June, that the barber had sexually assaulted her eight-year-old daughter while giving her a haircut.
During the examination of witnesses in the case earlier this week, the woman admitted in
the court that she had levelled false allegations against the man under the
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The man, who is in his
40s, was arrested following the complaint and was in custody since then.
During the trial before the Special Judge (P) Jimut Bahan Biswas at Sealdah Court, when the mother of the child was being questioned as a witness, the woman said she had made false allegations against the man, public prosecutor Vivek Sharma said.
However, she did not tell the
court the reason for levelling the false charges, Sharma said. The judge acquitted
the man of all charges and ordered his release. The Judge then
initiated proceedings against the woman and sentenced her to two months in jail
for bringing the false charges against the man, who had also been behind bars
for over two months.
Sharma said that under the POSCO Act, there is a provision for sentencing a person up to six months in jail for bringing false
charges.
Girl gets 3 months in jail for a false rape charge
Oct 14, 2018, ANANTNAG: A teenage girl has been sentenced to three months in prison for falsely accusing a man of rape and criminal intimidation in Anantnag.
A girl had in March filed an FIR at Achabal police station against Tajammul Nisar, accusing him of abduction, rape and criminal intimidation. Following the complaint, she testified before the Judicial Magistrate, Anantnag, and repeated the accusations. The case was subsequently put under trial in a fast-track court.
“Finally, the girl backtracked and told the court that she had lied as Nisar had turned down her proposal for marriage,”
Additional Sessions Judge, Anantnag, Masarat Shaheen termed the sentence a “lenient” one in her judgment dated October 10. “Taking a lenient view, the accused is sentenced to three months in simple imprisonment. She shall be lodged at the Central Jail, Srinagar,” the judgment reads.
Additional Public Prosecutor, Syed Suhail Haqqani, said. The judge told The Tribune that she comes across many cases where false allegations are levelled against men for different reasons. “This should definitely serve as a deterrent. The truth always prevails,” she said.
Virginia,
MN (KROC AM News) - A northern Minnesota woman has admitted sex
trafficking her young daughter to men numerous times in exchange for money and
drugs.
The
girl said it started when she was 11-years old.
The
woman is now facing a recommended prison sentence.
St Louis County authorities charged 36-year-old
Daisy Joy Buley of Ely last year with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and
first-degree aggravated sex trafficking. During a court hearing last week, she
pleaded guilty to the second count and will be sentenced in March.
A 22-year-old Kenosha woman
with a long criminal history will spend three years in a state prison
after a conviction for second-degree sexual assault of a child and
possession of narcotic drugs.
Amber
S. Wasurick, who is currently incarcerated at Taycheedah Correctional
Institution in Fond du Lac in connection to three other cases, was
sentenced Jan. 18 by Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Anthony
Milisauskas.
A neighbor told police she saw the defendant leaving a garage, and the
neighbor asked Wasurick, “Why are you in the garage with these young
men?” The defendant replied, “They told me they were 19,” the complaint
states. The neighbor further stated that Wasurick is a known prostitute
and drug user in the area.
Police found Wasurick in the 6400 block
of 26th Avenue and observed her eyelids were droopy, she was slow to
react and appeared to be under the influence.
One of the boys told police that he and the other victims had engaged in sexual contact with the defendant inside the garage.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Officers say a man
has been arrested for several charges after they responded to a shooting call
on Bellevue Boulevard in November.
The victim told officers he was
walking home when he saw his wife walking from his apartment with another man.
Officers said the victim, wife, and suspect then got into the wife’s car to
talk about the relationship between the suspect and wife.
The victim told police he was
sitting in the back seat when the suspect, Martavious Taylor, 38, fired a
gunshot at the victim’s head. Taylor then drove the vehicle to the the victim’s
home and forced him out of the car.
Officers said Taylor shot the victim in the leg and started beating
him in the face with a gun. Taylor then put his foot on the victim’s
neck and said, “I’m Martavious. Mac Scooter.”
According to court documents, the victim said he begged for Taylor
not to kill him and heard his wife say, “Kill him. He is going to
retaliate.” Police said Taylor took the victim’s phone and the victim’s
wife took $100 from his pocket while he was on the ground.
Taylor forced the victim back into the vehicle and drove around until
forcing him back out of the car on Bellevue Boulevard and shooting him
in the hand.
The victim told officers after Taylor shot him in the hand, he fired two more shots at him as he began to run.
Taylor was once convicted for aggravated assault in 2011 Source WREG
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