According to sources, the closure report states that the complainant filed the complaint a long time after the incident, failed to submit evidence and failed to appear before the court to record her statement under 164 CrPC procedure.

“The complainant has stated that on December 24, 2021, the accused visited her at Taj Land End and tried to molest her. But on the day of the incident, the accused did not go to the said place. This was ascertained from the correspondence with the said hotel. The said conclusion was also drawn from the testimony of the witnesses there,” police said in the closure report.

From the testimony given by the witnesses, who were present at the place of the alleged incident, it has been concluded that there was no wrongdoing with the woman as mentioned in the FIR, police said. “On the whole, our investigation has revealed that the said case has been filed by the complainant with the intention of framing the accused in a false crime. Therefore, it is requested to grant B- summary of the said crime,” the report stated.

Zonal Deputy Commissioner of Police Dixit Gedam did not respond to queries, however, sources confirmed that after the police filed a closure report, the court issued a notice to the complainant intimating about the development, seeking her response.

According to the complainant, Jindal sexually assaulted her on January 24, 2022, and she approached police on February 16, 2024. In her statement, the complainant also cited a couple of similar incidents prior to January 24, 2022.

On December 5 2023, the woman filed a petition in the Bombay High Court, alleging that police did not act on her complaint. On December 12, the BKC police informed the HC that the woman’s statement would be recorded and action would be taken.

An FIR was lodged on December 13. A day later, police informed the court that the woman’s statement had been recorded and an offence was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 376 (rape), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (criminal intimidation).

However, finding that the allegations were not true, the case was closed, police said, adding the complainant also failed to produce sufficient evidence to corroborate her claims.

According to police, the complainant met Jindal during an IPL match in Dubai on October 8, 2021, where she was in the VIP area along with her brother.

“My brother is a property consultant, and as Jindal wanted to buy some property, he shared his number with us, following which my brother asked me to get in touch with him,” the complainant said in her statement.

According to the statement, on December 18-19, she and her brother met Jindal at the wedding of a politician’s son in Jaipur. The statement cites two instances — on December 27, 2021, and January 5, 2022 — when Jindal allegedly sexually assaulted her at his house on Peddar Road and office in BKC respectively. She also mentioned a similar incident on January 24, 2022, at his office in BKC.

Police sources claimed that the statement of witnesses did not corroborate the allegations made by the complainant. The senior inspector of the BKC police station Raghunath Kadam did not respond to phone calls and messages.
Earlier in a statement, Jindal had denied the allegations as “false and baseless”.

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