Gurugram, Dec. 30 -- Police in Gurugram have reopened a one-and-a-half-year-old rape case involving a minor girl and booked a lawyer and her husband for allegedly falsely implicating the child's father to extort money from him. The case dates to May 19, 2024, when a woman accused her husband of sexually assaulting their nine-year-old daughter. An FIR was registered at the Women's Police Station (west) under IPC section 506 and Pocso Act Sections 6 and 10. Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Hitesh Yadav said the case was cancelled on April 1, 2025, after no evidence was found and the father lived in Ghaziabad. "However, we got the case reopened on December 11 on court permission when it came to light that it was a fake case using which money was extorted from the minor's father who was in a marital discord with his wife," Yadav said. The false case surfaced after police busted a nexus on November 6 involving the lawyer, her husband, a balloon seller, and his wife, who allegedly implicated men in marital disputes in fake cases to extort money. Sections 384, 389, 211, 419, 420, and 34 of the IPC and section 22 of the Pocso Act have been invoked. The decision to charge the child's mother is pending, officers aware of the case said. Investigators detailed that, on the lawyer's instructions, the balloon seller had a fake case registered on October 29 against a Gurugram IT firm owner for kidnapping and assaulting his minor son. The investigation led to arrests on November 6 from Sector 72, with Rs.1.14 crore in cash and Rs.2.85 crore in gold seized. "In both fake cases, the lawyer was in touch with the couples. She had sided with the wives and got the fake cases registered to extort money from the husbands besides collecting hefty fees," Yadav said. Last week, the couple was formally arrested in the 2024 case. The investigation revealed the Ghaziabad man and his wife collectively paid Rs.44 lakh to the lawyer-the man to settle the fabricated case, and the wife to secure a monetary settlement. "The lawyer had given the wife a printed complaint containing a concocted story of her minor daughter's rape to submit to police," Yadav added....