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New Delhi:

Ghaziabad Police has arrested a woman for telling a 'fake' story of gang rape and trying to mislead the police.

Earlier, the police had also registered a case of cheating and forgery against the woman.

The accused woman had spoken of her abduction and later gang rape by the five accused.

The police is currently interrogating the arrested woman in this case.

Ghaziabad Police's SP (City-1) Nipun Aggarwal said that this woman was arrested by our team.

We have produced him before the magistrate to record his statement.

From where he has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days at present.

Before the woman, her three companions have also been arrested.

They have been identified as Azad, Afzal and Gaurav. 

Let us inform that the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday registered a case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against three accomplices of the woman, Azad, Afzal and Gaurav, accused of plotting gangrape in a property dispute.

Police Officer Alok Dubey gave this information.

He had told that 40-year-old woman is currently admitted in Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Delhi.

Police on Thursday dismissed a Delhi-based woman's claim that she was gang-raped and vandalized by five men as "fabricated".

The police had claimed that the entire conspiracy was hatched to grab the property, over which there was a dispute between the woman and the accused.

He said that three people who helped the woman have been arrested.

The woman had claimed that she was gang-raped by five men for two days.

After this incident, Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Swati Maliwal had also claimed that a 36-year-old woman was found locked in a sack and her hands and feet were tied.

He also claimed that an iron rod was inserted in the private parts of the woman.

The police are still interrogating the four people taken into custody.


Meanwhile, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said it would send a two-member fact-finding team to probe the incident.

"NCW is taking cognizance of the matter and sending a two-member fact-finding team to meet the victim's family and concerned authorities," the commission tweeted.