4 women booked for blackmailing bizman

Women demanded ₹15 lakh to drop rape complaint against the Panipat resident

KARNAL: Six people, including four women, have been booked for allegedly extorting money from a Panipat-based businessman in exchange of withdrawing a rape complaint that they had filed against him.

The case was registered on the orders of a local court. The complainant, a construction contractor, who has spent six months in jail in the case, said he had met one of the women named in the complaint at the office of a courier company and both of them had exchanged phone numbers.

The complainant said that when he met the woman’s 18-year-old daughter, he fell in love with her.

On January 27, 2019, the girl came to meet him at a hotel and they established physical relations, he said.

But later the girl and her family members started blackmailing him and demanded ₹15 lakh in exchange of not filing a police complaint. He said on the basis of their chats he had filed a police complaint against the girl and her family members on July 30, 2019 but the police did not take any action against them.

On August 7, 2019, the police approached the girl and on August 10 she filed a rape complaint against him. The complainant was arrested and sent to jail on August 14.

When the complainant was released in March 2020, he filed a fresh case against the family after he learnt that the girl had also accused her maternal uncle of sexually assaulting her in April 2019.

After collecting evidence, he filed a complaint with the court and on the orders of Panipat judicial magistrate first class (JMIC), the police registered an FIR against six people, including the girl and her relatives under Section 383 (extortion), 420 (cheating), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offence) of the Indian Penal Code at the Sector 29 Police Stations.