Gurugram woman, who filed 7 rape cases against 7 men, now held for ‘extortion’

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'A 20-year-old student who filed seven rape cases against seven men at seven police stations in Gurugram has been arrested for allegedly filing a fake sexual assault complaint in a suspected extortion bid.

The woman, an English Honours student at Delhi University, has been booked for alleged extortion, insulting the modesty of a woman, threats for false evidence, criminal intimidation, and criminal conspiracy.

She filed the seven complaints over 14 months beginning September 2020. Three of these cases have already been closed. In two of these, she has been issued notices to appear before court under Section 182 (false information, with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person) of the IPC.

Her arrest came after the mother of one of the men she got booked filed a police complaint against her.

“She was arrested Wednesday. The complaint was filed by the mother of a man against whom she had filed an FIR on 24 October 2021, accusing him of rape, in DLF phase 3 police station,” a senior police officer told ThePrint.'