Additional District Judge Gyanendra Tripathi sentenced the woman to 1,653 days of imprisonment, the same period the man had spent in jail after the false accusation.
The Court was dealing with a case where a minor girl said that she was told to "make additions" in a police complaint since the police would not arrest the accused for a "simple case of slapping."
Goa police have exposed a major criminal operation involving the filing of false rape cases across the country. The investigation led to the arrest of an alleged pimp from Gujarat. The criminals targeted economically disadvantaged girls and enticed them with monetary incentives to file false rape cases. The investigation revealed an inter-state racket operated by two women from Gujarat who extorted money from their targets using the threat of false rape cases.
Observing that genuine cases of such sexual offences are now an "exception", the Allahabad High Court last week said that since girls/women have the “upper hand” when it comes to the protection of.
Elaborating the provisions of section 375 (rape) and 376 (punishment for rape) of the IPC relating to the offence of rape, as amended in the year 2013, Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav rejected the plea that a woman cannot be prosecuted for the alleged commission of the offence of gang rape. 📰 Woman Facilitating Rape Can Be Prosecuted for ‘Gang Rape’, Says Allahabad High Court.