Serial rape accuser lands in police net

A young woman, who claimed to be an IT professional, has been arrested in Amritsar after her latest complaint of being raped by a hotel executive turned out to be false, police said on Tuesday.

The woman has been booked for extortion. She ha d earliercomplained against a young executive of a five-star hotel in Chandigarh, who is in judicial custody.

Amritsar’s ADCP (City-II) Gautam Singhal told that the woman was held after her complaint of having been raped by the manager on Queens Road turned out to be false.

Police had first booked the manager for rape following her complaint on Sunday. She had alleged that the manager had physical relations without her consent.

Singhal said that the woman, who arrived in Amritsar by a flight on May 18 from New Delhi tried to check into a leading hotel chain near the Amritsar airport but the hotel staff got suspicious of her antecedents and refused her a room.

She then checked into another prominent hotel in the upscale Ranjit Avenue locality in Amritsar. However, the hotel authorities were suspicious of her activities and deputed only female staff to her room. This angered her and she left the hotel in a huff.

The woman, aged around 31 and claiming to be from Jaipur, then checked into the hotel on Queens Road after doing online booking. Here she befriended the hotel manager and later alleged that he raped her after making her unconscious.

Police first booked the manager for rape but got suspicious of the woman later.