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Allegations of Sexual
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A woman who sparked a huge police
operation after falsely claiming she had been kidnapped and sexually
assaulted did so because she was angry with police. Ashika Kamini Kalpana, 26,
unemployed, pleaded guilty in Wellington District Court yesterday to making a
false complaint. Kalpana took off most of her
clothing at the entrance to Otari-Wilton's Bush Reserve on May 15 and ran to
Churchill Drive, where she screamed at passing cars. Members of the public stopped and
called police. Kalpana pretended to be upset, crying and acting as if
severely traumatised. She was taken to a medical centre
and was examined by a specialist in sexual assault cases. However, Kalpana went back to
police two days later and admitted the complaint was false. She said she had
been unhappy with the lack of police response to unrelated complaints between
her boyfriend and a group of Assyrian men. She felt angry and decided to invent
a sexual complaint against the men. She had told police she was taken
at knifepoint from Berhampore by two men in a car. She had identified both
men of Assyrian descent who had had previous altercations with her boyfriend.
She picked one out from photographs and made a 17-page statement. She claimed she had been
threatened and during the car ride had been indecently assaulted. She tried
to escape, running, but was caught, her clothes pulled off and she was
assaulted again before managing to get away and get the attention of nearby
drivers for help, she said. Kalpana will be sentenced on
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