
13/09/2025
▪On 10 Sep 2025, Telangana HC granted anticipatory bail to a man accused of r**e by a woman known for filing multiple similar complaints. While granting bail to the petitioner charged u/s 64(1) BNS, Court observed, “the petitioner herein filed the past crime history of the complainant herein showing that she already implicated several persons with the similar allegations and that she is a married woman.”
▪The case arose out of an FIR registered at Moinabad Police Station, Cyberabad. The complainant alleged that she had been offered a job at a Consultancy and received an appointment letter. According to her, the accused, repeatedly insisted that she meet him. On 07.06.2025 and again on 08.06.2025, he allegedly pursued her through calls and WhatsApp chats.
▪On one such meeting, he brought another woman, who allegedly teased the complainant to enter into a relationship with him. On 11.06.2025, she claimed that he spiked her water and, throughout the night, s*xually assaulted her, forcing her to perform oral s*x.
▪The complainant further alleged that the accused promised marriage and permanent employment, although her contract was for one year. Later, he allegedly blackmailed her by showing a fake termination letter and demanded money, citing debts of one crore. She claimed that she later discovered, through colleagues, that he had similarly exploited other women and committed fraud.
▪The petitioner firmly denied the allegations and his counsel argued that he was being falsely implicated by a habitual complainant. The defence relied upon her past history, contending that “the complainant is a habitual complainant and filed similar false complaints against many other innocent persons and Haryana police had filed criminal cases against the complainant herein for the offences of extortion.”
▪Justice K. Sujana carefully examined the record and the rival submissions. The Court noted the material produced by the accused, showing that the complainant had implicated several others on similar grounds in the past. Accordingly, the Court granted anticipatory bail to the accused/petitioner.
▪Earlier, on 07 December 2022, in a case before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the same complainant was denied bail in connection with FIR registered against her u/s 120B, 195A, 34, 384, 389 and 509 IPC at Gurugram.
▪The FIR, lodged by Archana Verma, alleged that the complainant attempted to trap her son by threatening him with false r**e charges.
▪The complainant stated that the woman made repeated telephone calls to her son and threatened that she would “involve him in a false r**e case as she had even earlier sent many boys to jail.” She, along with her mother and an accomplice, also visited their house to demand money for settlement. It was further alleged that she is a married woman, having married one Mahesh on 24.08.2021.
▪Justice Ashok Kumar Verma of the Punjab and Haryana HC observed, “the petitioner has filed as many as 9 FIRs against different persons and out of these 9 cases, in 3 cases proceedings under Section 182 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 the allegations have been made by her.”