Punjab & Haryana HC Denies Bail To Gurgaon Woman Who Filed 9 FIRs Against Different Men Alleging Sexual Offences

A single bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Verma was informed that in 3 cases, proceedings under Section 182 of IPC were initiated against her for tendering false information with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person.

"As per reply filed by the State, the petitioner has filed as many as 09 FIRs against different persons and out of these 09 cases, in 03 cases proceedings under Section 182 of the IPC have been initiated against the petitioner as the allegations of these FIRs were found to be false. The petitioner is running racket for extortion of money from the persons against whom allegations have been made by her," Court said in its order.

"Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, gravity of the alleged offences and the fact that the petitioner is a habitual of filing cases against different persons, the petitioner does not deserve the concession of regular bail," it held.

The woman has been booked under Sections 120B, 195-A, 34, 384, 389 and 509 of the IPC on the basis of a complaint filed by the mother of one the boys accused by her. She is in custody since January 2022.

It was alleged that the petitioner happened to be a friend of complainant's son and she started indulging in obscene activities with him in public, to which the boy objected, subsequent to which she started harassing and threatening him by saying that she would involve him in a false rape case as she had even earlier sent many boys to jail.

The petitioner claimed that she was falsely implicated and that the complainant's son had unnatural sex with her on false promise to marry her. She argued that this FIR was a counter-blast to the FIR which she had filed against the complainant's son.

State submitted petitioner has a "pattern" to falsely implicate boys and their family members in offences of rape, outraging the modesty etc. with a motive to blackmail them.

The High Court, after hearing the arguments of both sides, dismissed the bail plea.

Case Title: AB v. State of Haryana

Citation: CRM-M-33585-2022 (O&M)

Coram: Justice Ashok Kumar Verma

Citation: 2022 LiveLaw (PH) 325

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