Woman jailed for 5 years for filing false rape case

A Cox's Bazar court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to five years in prison for filing a false rape case.

Cox's Bazar Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 Judge Md Muslem Uddin handed down the verdict against plaintiff of the case Runa Akhter on Wednesday. He also fined her Tk 20,000.

According to the case details, Runa filed the case claiming that she was picked up from Cox's Bazar court premises in March 2022 and was gang-raped. After the case was proved false, the court acquitted all the accused.

After getting acquitted, one of the accused in the case, Rasel Uddin, filed a case against Runa.

The rape case Runa filed was proved false and the court acquitted the accused and dismissed the case. But the accused had been in jail for a long time, said Cox's Bazar Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1 APP Badiul Alam.

Involving the case of harassment by Rasel, the court announced the verdict after completing the judicial proceedings within a short time, he said.

On February 16, Runa was arrested from her home on the order of the court.