Woman and her son-in-law lover in MP sentenced to 10 years for false rape charges

New Delhi, October 29

A woman and her son-in-law from Madhya Pradesh have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for falsely accusing their four neighbours of gang rape.  

The woman identified as Guddi Ojha and her son-in-law Gopal Rajak were sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for fabricating evidence to secure a conviction and criminal conspiracy, six months jail for giving false information to a public servant.

The woman was in a relationship with her son-in-law and decided to frame their four neighbours in 2014 because she did not get along with them.

The duo also fabricated evidence in support of the allegation.

Following the FIR registered on her statement in August 2014, the four neighbours requested the police to carry out  a DNA test to compare the semen sample from the woman’s clothes with that of her son-in-law.

As per the case details, in August 2014, the woman, who lost her husband in 2011, filed a complaint that she was gang-raped by four people who lived in her neighbourhood. 

The police arrested the accused after lodging the FIR under section 376 D at Ashoknagar police station. The medical report of the woman confirmed rape and her clothes and vaginal swab were taken for further investigation.

The test report revealed that the woman was not raped by any of the four but by some other person, officials added. 

The officials said that Gopal Rajak’s sample matched with the sperm samples collected from the woman’s clothes following which Gopal Rajak was arrested.

During the 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.

The police in their investigation had found the duo misleading the cops and fabricating the evidence to levy false charges on their neighbours.