Gurgaon woman who claimed rape booked for extortion, blackmail

A woman who had filed two rape cases against Gurgaon deputy Mayor Parminder Kataria has now been booked on charges of extortion and blackmailing Gurgaon BJP legislator Umesh Aggarwal, police said on Tuesday

Kataria has also filed a similar police complaint against the woman, a resident of Laxman Vihar area.

Aggarwal filed a police complaint on charges of extortion, criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code against the woman and a man named Sandeep Panchal at the Sector 5 police station.

Aggarwal, in his complaint, said Panchal, who was a junior programme clerk at the Gurgaon election office and who was suspended last year after some allegations, contacted and requested him to listen to the woman as she had submitted an affidavit in court to take back all charges against Kataria.

He said both parties were called on November 6 last year. After that meeting, Panchal threatened that the woman may file some complaint against him too.

Aggarwal said the woman had married twice and later divorced both her husbands after settlement. He alleged that the sole aim of the woman was to earn money through blackmail.