When the Gurugram police on Friday exposed the unusual case of a gang of three persons, including a lawyer, who would blackmail men by fabricating sexual assault cases, they were blowing the lid off a vast, unethical industry in the state that doesn’t think twice before filing false complaints.

The gang was trying to extort money by falsely accusing a man of sodomising an 8-year-old boy. Similarly, the police arrested a spa centre owner in Faridabad extorting money from a Delhi resident after implicating him in a false rape case.

Another notable case is that of a Gurugram woman who, in 2021, filed separate cases against seven different men, accusing all of them of rape on the promise of marriage.

The Haryana Police have confirmed that as many as 45.3 per cent of rape FIRs and 57.4 per c

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