How Ghaziabad Police poked holes in woman’s rape complaint
On Thursday, police had held a press conference where they asserted that a woman — who had levelled allegations of being gangraped and assaulted by a group of men two days earlier, before being dumped on the side of the road — had lied. Behind the alleged fabrication in a woman’s rape complaint is a longstanding Rs 53 lakh property dispute, investigators with the Ghaziabad police say. On Thursday, police had held a press conference where they asserted that a woman — who had levelled allegations of being gangraped and assaulted by a group of men two days earlier, before being dumped on the side of the road — had lied. While police had lodged an FIR when the case first came to light — and the Delhi Commission of Women had mounted pressure for action in her complaint — investigators had also started looking into facets of her story that didn’t add up. In the aftermath of the FIR, the woman’s brother had claimed that she had been abducted on her way back to Delhi after attend...