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New Delhi, October 29
The Haryana State Commission for Women has asked the Haryana police to probe allegations of "fake" rape cases registered by one woman.
This is one of the rare cases where the women's body has taken note of fake rape cases of a Gurugram based woman. The woman reportedly registered seven rape cases over the span of one year.
Acting panel Chairperson Preeti Bhardwaj Dalal wrote to Haryana Director General of Police PK Agrawal seeking the formation of a Special Investigation Team to probe the case.
In the letter, Dalal highlighted that the accused woman filed seven cases alleging rape against seven different men at seve different police stations across Gurugram district, Haryana, over the past year.
Dalal requested an SIT headed by a female and a male officer to probe the case. The SIT may constitute three other officers, the letter added.
The women's panel took note of the case based on a complaint filed by filmmaker and male's rights activist Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj. According to the complaint, the accused married a 24-year-old man by blackmailing him with a rape case this August.
Incidentally, the case came to the fore, when the woman filed a seventh police case recently, accusing a man of raping her by promising marriage.
Two of the seven cases have reportedly been found false.
As per the case in investigations so far, the police noted that The accused allegedly blackmailed the men she accused of rape and tried forcing them to marry her. She was also booked by the Haryana Police for the same.
