New Delhi: The Delhi Police Tuesday said that the gangrape case registered on the complaint of a Myanmarese woman last month is “false” and was allegedly filed to avoid confrontation with her abusive husband.
On 26 February, the police registered an FIR on a complaint by the woman who had alleged that she was gang-raped on the intervening night of 22-23 February. In her complaint, the Myanmarese woman alleged she was rendered unconscious, abducted by an auto-rickshaw driver from Southeast Delhi’s Kalindi Kunj area and sexually assaulted by four men.
An FIR was later registered at the Kalindi Kunj police station against unknown persons under section 376D (gangrape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Deputy Commissioner Of Police (Southeast) Rajesh Deo told ThePrint the police relied on call detail record (CDR) and CCTV mapping to zero down on the location where the woman was last seen. During the investigation, the police also encountered the phone number of one Akbar Ali through which the woman’s relatives were in touch with her, he said.
The DCP revealed that the woman had a fight with her husband on 22 February and left the Rohingya camp in Kalindi Kunj to stay with Ali, who was their former neighbour, and his wife. “She stayed there up to about 2 pm, 24 February, and then took an auto, reached Kalindi Kunj metro station from where she took a metro and reached Janakpuri metro station and further to Vikaspuri,” he added.
According to DCP Deo, the woman’s motive for filing the false complaint was to “save the family of Akbar Ali who provided her shelter for two nights as well as to avoid further quarrel with her husband”.
“She informed us that her husband beat her and she got frightened that if she would narrate the real story to her husband, he would surely cause trouble to Ali’s family,” he said.
In her complaint, the woman had alleged that she was visiting someone in the area along with her husband for their daughter’s treatment when an auto-driver abducted her and took her to an isolated location where she was sexually assaulted. The woman had further claimed that she and her one-year-old daughter were taken in an auto-rickshaw to the Haryana-Delhi border before being dropped off at an unknown location.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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