Toilet Cleaner, Father's Revenge Plot, Then A Confession: Major Twist In Delhi Acid Attack Case

Last Updated:October 28, 2025, 09:39 IST

Delhi Police arrested the father of the woman after the probe revealed inconsistencies in her statement and links to a separate harassment case filed by the main accused's wife.

Delhi acid attack case: Victim's father arrested after police find incident was staged.

In a dramatic twist in the Delhi acid attack case, the police on Monday claimed the college student who had alleged the deadly attack made a false claim at the behest of her father, who sought revenge over a rape complaint.

According to reports, Delhi Police have arrested the father of the woman who alleged an acid attack near Ashok Vihar, after the probe revealed inconsistencies in her statement and links to a separate harassment case filed by the main accused’s wife.

Woman Claimed ‘Acid Attack’

The 19-year-old second-year B.Com student enrolled in Delhi University’s Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board alleged that she had been attacked with acid by three men. According to a Delhi Police statement, on October 26, the student was admitted to a hospital with burn injuries on her hands.

She named the three as Jitender and his two accomplices, Ishan and Arman, both brothers, and, as it later turned out, her relatives.

As per the police, she claimed that she was attacked with acid while she was walking towards her college for an extra class. She alleged that her acquaintance had been stalking her and that the two had argued about a month earlier.

She was admitted to RML Hospital with burn injuries on her hands.

DCP (Northwest) Bhisham Singh had initially stated that the alleged attacker had been “stalking her for months". However, the police later found discrepancies in her statement and Jitender’s location away from the crime spot.

The Revelations Following Probe

• During the probe, the father of the student, Aqeel Khan, allegedly told investigators that he and his daughter fabricated the acid attack story to falsely implicate the woman’s husband, who accused him of sexual harassment and blackmail,  and his two relatives, all of whom were involved in legal and personal disputes with him.
• The investigator stated that the woman used a toilet cleaner taken from her home to injure herself and stage the attack.
• The Delhi Police is set to take legal action under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the woman and her father for plotting the fake story.
• Police said two days before the supposed acid assault, on Friday, Jitender’s wife had lodged a complaint accusing the father of the 19-year-old of rape and blackmail. She told police that she had worked at his factory between 2021 and 2024, during which time the man allegedly raped her and threatened her with private photos and videos.
• The two other men accused in the acid attack case were verified to have been in Agra with their mother at the time of the incident. Police said the woman, who is distantly related to the rape accused, had herself been a victim of an acid attack in 2018 and is currently embroiled in a property dispute with him.
• The CCTV camera footage showed that, on Sunday, the woman left her house on a two-wheeler with her brother, who dropped her in the Ashok Vihar area. From there, she was seen boarding an e-rickshaw. None of the three alleged accused is seen in the footage, said the police.

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