LUCKNOW, April 10 -- The shocking supposed abduction and gang rape of a 45-year-old woman who was allegedly shot at and left to die in Bareilly last month has turned out to be a cooked-up incident, according to the police.

In this instance, the so-called victim got herself operated on by a quack and had a bullet planted inside her body in a bid to frame a local politician and his son, the police said.

The disclosure comes nearly 10 days after the entire state was shocked on March 30 to read reports of the alleged abduction and gang rape of the woman before she was shot and supposedly left on the road to die near Gandhi Udyan under Bareilly Kotwali police station limits on March 29 night.

"The bullet stuck inside her body between the ri...