Date:05/06/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/06/05/stories/2006060516520300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Woman filed false complaint: police

Staff Reporter

`She admitted before a magistrate that her intention was to frame her husband's rivals'

BANGALORE: The Nandini Layout Police have said that complainant in a burglary case, Sharada, had lodged a false complaint with a view to frame the rivals of her husband. Sharada had on May 24 complained to the police that three men had in the guise of cable operators entered her house and decamped with Rs. 5 lakh in cash and jewellery valued at Rs. 60,000. She also said that the men had thrown chilly powder on her and tied her to a chair.

The police, who said that there were some discrepancies in her statements, interrogated her and found that she had made seven calls from her mobile phone to a relative at the time when she was allegedly tied to the chair. They also found the jewellery in a compartment in an almirah and Rs. 50,000 in cash at another place. The chilly powder, the police said, was the same as the one in her house. The police said the complainant admitted before a magistrate that she had given a false complaint to frame the rivals of her husband Ramesh, who is in judicial custody in connection with two murders.

Arrested

The City Crime Branch Police have arrested a man on the charge of selling duplicate printer cartridges and recovered such cartridges valued at Rs. 15,000 from him. The police gave his name as Mohammed Tanveer.