A court in Bareilly on Saturday sentenced a 21-year-old woman for giving a false testimony in a false rape case. The kidnapping and rape case registered in 2019.
The court convicted the woman under IPC section 195 (giving or fabricating false evidence with intent to procure conviction of an offence). The duration of her sentence – four years, eight months, and six days – is the same as the time that a 25-year-old man falsely implicated in the case served in prison. The man was behind bars from September 30, 2019, to April 8 this year.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5.88 lakh on the woman, with the provision that failure to pay would result in an additional six months of imprisonment.
The fine, amounting to Rs 5,88,822.47, was determined on the basis of daily wages set by the Uttar Pradesh government for unskilled labour, government counsel Sunil Pandey said.
“During the trial, the woman backtracked on her earlier statement during cross-examination. She denied the assertion that the youth kidnapped and raped her. She was then arrested and sent to jail,” Pandey was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
