Jalgaon, Maharashtra: The gangrape case in a village near here took a U-turn on Wednesday with the presumed victim telling the police that she had cooked up the story at the behest of her mother-in-law in order to get cash compensation from the government.
Meerabai Ramjisingh Dawre, 30, had complained to the police on Tuesday that five unidentified men wearing monkey caps had raped her after tying her husband to a tree.
The assaulters had threatened to kill her husband and son if she resisted, the woman, who worked as a farm labourer, had told the police.
Meerbai told the police in the presence of media representatives on Wednesday that though it was true the gang of five had beaten up her husband, she was not raped.
She also made a similar statement before an executive magistrate, Superintendent of Police SD Waghmare said.
"While Meerabai told us that she made up the rape story at her mother-in-law's prodding, the mother-in-law and Meerabai's husband Ramji Singh pleaded for mercy," Waghmare said.
While a police control room source had said on Tuesday that the medical examination of the woman had confirmed rape, the superintendent of police on Wednesday said that it was not true.
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