India, Dec. 12 -- What initially appeared to be a gang-rape by a cab driver and his accomplices in Karnataka's Bengaluru turned out to be a consensual encounter, after the police discovered loopholes and contradictory statements from a 22-year-old woman.

The nursing student, originally from Kerala, filed a complaint at the Madivala police station on December 6, alleging that a cab driver and his friends gang-raped her near Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal in Bengaluru on the night of December 2, The Times of India reported.

The police registered a gang-rape case and transferred it to Banaswadi police station due to the latter's jurisdiction. After a statement from the victim, the driver was arrested from his residence in east Bengaluru.

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