MP Woman, Who Falsely Accused Neighbours Of Gangrape, Gets 10-Year Sentence

False gangrape case: A woman in Madhya Pradesh was sentenced to a ten-year jail term for levelling false allegations of gangrape against her four neighbours, reports said Thursday. Now 46, she reportedly framed the men in 2014 over some personal conflicts. The woman's son-in-law has received a prison sentence too.

As per reports, the verdict followed results of a DNA test demanded by the accused. They had reportedly claimed innocence even when the First Information Report (FIR) was first filed in 2014 alleging gangrape.

The DNA results revealed a match with the woman's son-in-law, with whom she was in a relationship.

Hindustan Times identifies the female accused as one Guddi Ojha and her son-in-law and co-accused as Gopal Rajak. Charges against them include evidence fabrication and provision of false information to a government officer.

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"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," a police officer who probed the case was quoted saying.

At the Ashok Nagar district court, where Ojha's case was heard, the arguments presented indicated that Ojha's husband died in 2011. She claimed that her neighbours barged into her home one night and raped her. Witnesses in the case, however, told police that the accused were not present at the scene of the alleged crime.

Reports suggest it was at the behest of the accused that police permitted DNA tests to be performed on Rajak and one other man.

Earlier this year in August, the Delhi High Court brought attention to a rise in false rape cases and noted that allegations relating to such serious offences could not be made "in order to settle personal scores." The court made this observation while hearing a case involving alleged rape incidents, wherein a lawyer filed a complaint against another, and a second complaint was made by the accused lawyer's wife.

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