India, July 3 -- A 40-year-old man who runs a spa and massage centre, was arrested in Faridabad on Wednesday, for allegedly getting his girlfriend to implicate his close friend in a fake rape case to get him jailed, police said. They added that the man then extorted Rs.33 lakh from his family on the pretext of influencing the complainant to withdraw the case. Police identified the victim as Dheeraj Gupta, 37, a real estate firm owner. He spent almost three-and-a-half months in jail after being arrested in a fake rape case registered against him at Women's police station (central) on July 12, 2023. He is from Vishwakarma Colony in Delhi's Prahladpur area. The woman had alleged that Gupta had raped her after dragging her inside his Ford Endeavour car parked in the basement of Crown Interiorz Mall in Sector 35 in December 2022. After his bail, Gupta had sought help from men's rights activist Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj and had written to then Haryana home minister Anil Vij on January 12 last year urging him to form a special investigation team (SIT) for crackdown on the racket that made up fake rape cases and ruined families. It was while investigating the same complaint that Faridabad police registered an FIR at Sector 17 police station in September last year and finally arrested the kingpin Mukesh Narwat. Narwat, a resident of Green Field colony, owned the spa centre in Crown Interiorz mall. Police said Narwat and Gupta knew each other for the last eight years and were close friends with both frequently visiting each other's homes. Gupta and Pinki, the complainant did not know each other, police said. Inspector Kuldeep Singh, station house officer of the Sector 17 police station, said that Pinki, a resident of Tajpur Pahadi in Delhi and another man named Monty Chandila, a resident of Bhataul in Faridabad, were yet to be arrested. "Pinki worked in Narwat's spa centre. Gupta's brother Neeraj Gupta had paid Chandila Rs 33 lakh on Narwat's direction to get the case withdrawn. After investigation, it became evident that Gupta had neither met Pinki, nor had sexually assaulted her as alleged," he said. Singh said that Narwat was virtually running an extortion gang in which he was using Pinki and other women to lodge false rape cases against businessmen to extort money. Police officials, privy to the investigation, said that when Gupta was arrested soon after the case was registered, Narwat reached the Women's police station on pretext of helping them. They said he asked Gupta's family to arrange Rs 50 lakh so that he can settle the matter by influencing the complainant. Investigators said that Gupta's brother Neeraj Gupta had later handed over Rs 33 lakh cash to Chandil. By then Gupta had been jailed. After the payment, Pinki started deviating from all the information before court which she had mentioned in the FIR....