KUALA LUMPUR: A report lodged by a Bangladeshi woman who claimed she was gang-raped turned out to be false.
Police are now trying to establish why the woman lied in her report where she claimed she was kidnapped and raped by five Myanmar men.
Sepang district police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Aziz Ali said the woman, a 28-year-old university student has been arrested.
“Investigations will be carried out to ascertain why she lodged the false report,” he said.
The woman had claimed six Myanmar and two Bangladeshi men barged into the home in Dengkil, Selangor around midnight on Nov 13.
In her report, she claimed the men threatened her and her husband with a knife before forcing her into a car and proceeded to Selayang.
There she was taken into a house that she recognised as where a friend of her former husband had lived.
She was thereafter taken to another house wher she claimed five Myanmar men took turns raping her until she fell unconscious.
The woman also claimed she lost jewellery and cash RM5,000 before escaping while the men slept on Nov 16.
Police in their probe detained four men for investigations into the report but all have been released.