(Updated) A Dalit woman was pulled out from her house and taken one km away at around 1 am early Monday and allegedly raped by an unidentified gang of around six people. The incident took place at Bishrampur village in Rautahat district. Police rescued the woman and is currently keeping her under their custody. According to police, the perpetrators are not yet identified. Around five-six people forced themselves inside the house. They rendered husband helpless by tying him and took the woman away where they took turns to rape her in a heap of hay. Police Inspector Santu Prasad Jaiswar said a team from Garuda Area Police Office immediately reached the site and rescued the woman. Meanwhile, family members of the Dalit woman are grief-stricken by the incident. Locals has informed that the perpetrators came in motorbikes. The woman was taken for medical check-up in the morning and now her health is normal informed police. 

update........... The couple admits to making up rape claim to settle scores with neighbours. A couple in Rautahat’s Bishrampur village has admitted to making up a false rape claim to implicate their neighbours. The couple approached Rautahat Police on Monday to file a rape case against five of their neighbours. Acting on the case, police  arrested the persons who was identified by the couple as culprits. But as the investigation continued, police discovered that the case was fake. “As we launched an investigation and asked about the couple’s activities after the case was filed, we found that the couple, mainly the husband, had made up the claim to settle scores with their neighbours,” said SP Dr Ganresh Regmi, chief of Rautahat Police, at a press conference organised at Women and Children Service centre in Garuda today. According to SP Regmi, the couple was in bad terms with neighbour Jagadev Ram and they were often found engaging in quarrels. As per police, the couple had gone out of the house on their own before having sex outside and crying for help saying that the woman was gang-raped on the night of February 1 (Sunday night). The couple pleaded guilty and admitted to making up a false claim. “I did as my husband told me in order to teach a lesson to the neighbours,” said the wife at the conference today. Police said action will be taken against the couple as per the law of the land.