India, July 23 -- The Pune city police have booked the 22-year-old IT professional for allegedly lodging a false rape complaint, weeks after her sensational claim of being sexually assaulted by a man posing as a delivery agent triggered a massive investigation. The action came within a fortnight of Pune Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar declaring that the woman had filed a fake complaint to mislead police.

Senior police officers said that a non-cognisable (NC) offence has been registered against the woman after the probe revealed that the incident she reported on July 2 was fabricated.

"We have booked the woman under sections 212 (providing false information), 217 (giving false information to public servant respecting an offence committ...