News Desk – The investigation into the alleged acid attack on a 19-year-old Delhi University student has taken a dramatic twist. Delhi Police have arrested the girl’s father, Akil Khan, after finding that the attack was likely staged.
According to police, Akil Khan confessed that he fabricated the acid attack story to falsely implicate a man whose wife had recently filed a sexual harassment complaint against him.
Two days before the alleged attack, the wife of one of the men the girl had accused called the police (PCR) and filed a complaint.
She alleged that Akil Khan sexually harassed her for years, forced physical relations, blackmailed her, and threatened her using objectionable photos and videos.
Police also discovered an old property dispute between the families involved.
CCTV footage and phone location records showed that none of the three men named by the girl were present at the place of the alleged attack.
Police said there were multiple contradictions in the girl’s statement.
Officers now suspect that the girl may have burnt her own hands using toilet-cleaning liquid, but are waiting for the medical report to confirm this.
On Sunday at 10:52 am, she called police claiming that three men threw acid on her while she was on her way to college, and that one of them had been stalking her for a year.
However, during the investigation, her version of events kept changing, raising doubts.
