PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad--Reshma Maharaj gripped Trinidad and Tobago with the story of her alleged kidnapping. But, according to police, the country may have been hoodwinked.
The 30-year-old woman is now charged with wasteful employment of police time by knowingly making a false report that she was kidnapped by three men.
However, she has pleaded not guilty to the offence.
Maharaj, who was rescued by an off-duty police officer around 8:00am on Monday, May 1, while walking along the M-2 Ring Road near Gandi Village, Debe, had reported a frightening ordeal.
She told police she was driving home on Friday morning, April 28, when an SUV pulled in front of her black B-13 Sentra. She said three men had exited the vehicle, pulled her from her car and thrown her into the back of the SUV. Maharaj claimed she had been blindfolded, gagged, tied up and kept captive in a house for three days.
On day four, the woman alleged, she was forced into the trunk of a car which was subsequently abandoned near the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission.
Maharaj told police she had managed to free herself by kicking out the back seat and crawling out of the car.
Police took her for treatment at the San Fernando Hospital and she was subsequently discharged, but 24 hours later, police arrested her. ~ Caribbean360 ~
