BHOPAL: A sessions court in Madhya Pradesh’s Ashok Nagar district has sentenced a woman and her son-in-law to 10 years in jail for filing a false gang-rape complaint in 2014, based on which police had arrested four persons.
Medical reports pointed at ‘rape’, so the complainant’s clothes and swabs were collected for investigation, said sources. However, swabs taken from the woman didn’t match the DNA of any of the accused. Further investigation led cops to ask the woman’s son-in-law to give his sample for a DNA test. It matched. During questioning, he confessed to being sexually involved with his mother-in-law.
The complainant and her son-in-law admitted to implicating four of their neighbours in a false case because of a dispute over installation of a new hand pump.