Ahmedabad Crime Branch claims SUV gang rape complainant took picture herself and edited it

GNN | Aug 23, 2018, 9:48 PM IST|

• Crime Branch forensic report of narco analysis to public prosecutor
• New twists & turns in the sensational case

Ahmedabad, Aug23, 2018. The case in which a 22-year-old woman filed a complaint alleging she was gang-raped in an SUV, has fallen flat, crime branch officials say. While the case made headlines, top city police officials said they have now received forensic report of narco analysis, brain mapping and other tests conducted on the accused, along with material evidence, which suggest that the version of events given in the complaint do not match what happened, says Sarfaraz Shaikh in a TNN report.
“We can even prosecute the woman for lodging a false FIR with the intention to frame the accused,” a top city police official told Shaikh.
Crime branch officials said they submitted the report in a sealed cover to the public prosecutor who will probably submit it to the high court soon. “In response to the court’s question about why no arrests were made in the case, we stated that the FIR is fabricated with mala fide intention to frame the accused and hence arrests have not been made,” the official said.
Crime branch sources said they have material evidence to suggest that even the picture of the alleged sexual assault has been edited multiple times.
“We have forensic evidence to show the photograph was taken by the complainant herself and edited multiple times. The background of the image was changed to make it look like it was taken in a car,” said a senior police official.
The complainant had lodged a complaint against seven persons, including her boyfriend Gaurav Dalmiya, Vrushabh Maru and Yamini Nair.
The woman had stated in her FIR, lodged on June 26 that she was kidnapped in an SUV from near the Rani ki Jhansi statue three months ago and raped in the moving car. The investigation of this case was later transferred to crime branch.