Ghaziabad: Woman's Gang-Rape Claim 'False', Story Cooked Up To Grab Property, Say Police

Ghaziabad Police claimed that the woman had cooked up the story to grab property over which she had a dispute with the accused.

In a twist to the Ghaziabad "gang-rape" case, police on Thursday said the Delhi woman's claim was "false", PTI reported. The woman had claimed earlier this week that she was abducted and gang-raped by five men for two days. Police claimed that the woman had cooked up the story to grab property over which she had a dispute with the accused.

"Three people who helped the woman with the plan have been arrested," police said.

After the incident came to light, Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal claimed that the 36-year-old woman was found wrapped in a jute bag with her hands and legs tied, and an iron rod was inserted in her private parts.

"@NCWIndia is taking cognisance of the matter and sending a two-member fact-finding team to meet the family of the victim and the concerned authorities," Maliwal had tweeted.

The woman had alleged that she was waiting for an auto-rickshaw to return home in Delhi when she was kidnapped at gunpoint on Ashram Road in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar Extension, taken to a house where she was held captive for two days and raped by five men.

The woman was admitted to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital. The incident had led to statewide outrage, with Maliwal comparing it to the Nirbhaya case.

Four of the five accused were taken into custody. 

Hospital authorities had said no internal injuries were found. However, there were signs of sexual assault and a "foreign object" was found in her body, PTI reported quoting hospital sources.

In her statement to the police, the woman said she had gone to Ghaziabad to celebrate her brother's birthday, a day before the incident. 

Nipun Agarwal, Superintendent of Police (City-I) Ghaziabad, said the victim's brother dropped her back and some people, who were known to her, picked her up from there.

The SP said when the police tried to get her medically examined at a Meerut hospital, she refused.

"After preliminary treatment, when we tried to get her medical examination conducted, she refused. Doctors referred her to the Meerut Medical College for treatment but she refused to go there. The woman was then taken to a Delhi hospital," PTI quoted the SP as saying.

(With PTI inputs)