In her petition seeking `adequate security', the alleged rape victim stated that three to four persons, including two with leader like looks, pressurised her and her father into naming Suba Singh, promising her ``a lot of money, sufficient for her marriage and settlement.''

Her counsel Puran Singh Hundal added that ``the atmosphere was surcharged to such an extent that the petitioner made the statement tutored to her by those two leader type persons.''

Taking up her petition, Justice T H B Chalapathi of the High Court issued notice to the Punjab Public Prosecutor for October 4.

The counsel, meanwhile, added that thepersons had come over to her house on August 20, three days before her statement was to be recorded. Threatening her with dire consequences, they had told the petitioner that her ``sex scandal'' would be published in all the local newspapers if she refused to go to the courts with them, he stated. On way to the Ludhiana district courts, the petitioner was again ``intimidated'', he added.

Claiming to have ``felt ashamed in the heart of her heart'' for naming Suba Singh, the counsel stated that ``in order to clear her conscience'', the petitioner filed an application `mentioning therein that she was pressurised to name Suba Singh, son of Gurdev Singh, as her ravisher and, therefore, he may not be read as an accused having committed rape on the petitioner as given in her statement''. He also stated that the petitioner was, however, stopped from going to the courts as on August 27 her father's house was gheraeod ``by a large number of people including women folk, raising slogans against the Punjabpolice.''

The mob, he added, was being led by ``those to politician type gentlemen''. The counsel further stated that since then, several visitors have been pressurising her to stick to her statement, ``whereas the truth is that no person by the name of Suba Singh ever came into contact with the petitioner, and therefore, there was no question of the commission of rape upon the petitioner by him.''

Going into the background of the case, the counsel stated that the alleged victim had accompanied four persons to various places including Haldwani in Uttar Pradesh after she was ``promised green pastures''.