New Delhi [India], October 31 (HBTV): Delhi Police have arrested Aqeel Khan, who is currently lodged in Tihar Jail in a rape case, for conspiring to stage an acid ‘attack’ on his 20-year-old daughter.
According to police, the alleged acid attack was orchestrated to frame the husband of a woman and the two sons of another woman who had earlier filed rape and acid attack complaints against Khan.
‘Aqeel was arrested two days ago by the Bhalswa Dairy police station on rape charges. He was then sent to judicial custody in Tihar Jail. Today, after obtaining permission from the court, the Bharat Nagar police station in the North West district went to Tihar Jail for questioning him and subsequently arrested him after claiming substantial evidence,’ the Delhi Police said in a statement on Thursday.
Delhi Police Special Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Ravinder Yadav said the investigation team grew suspicious of the genuineness of Aqeel Khan’s daughter’s complaint due to inconsistencies in her statements.
‘As soon as we got to know there was an attack, we registered the case. During the probe, we found some inconsistencies. We found that the story was fabricated. The CCTV footage we reviewed showed that the accused person was not at the scene. Then, we found that the girl’s father had a case registered against him of molestation and assault. To trap the complainant’s husband, this was done,’ Yadav said.
Upon checking CCTV footage and call records, police found that Jitender, who was named as one of the attackers, was not present at the crime scene when the alleged attack took place.
Jitender is the husband of the woman who had accused Aqeel Khan of rape and blackmail.
‘My husband is innocent, and that girl, her father, and her entire family conspired together and filed a false case... I had filed a complaint against Aqeel Khan at the Bhalswa police station. To escape that, he used his daughter to plot against my husband... My husband was on duty in Karol Bagh when the (alleged) attack occurred,’ Jitender’s wife told ANI.
The other two men, Armaan and Ishaan, whom Khan’s daughter named as attackers, were her relatives. In 2018, their mother, Shabnam, had accused Khan of sexual violence and an acid attack, police said.
Investigators added that the initial findings revealed it was not acid that had been thrown on the woman. Instead, she had taken toilet cleaner from her home and poured it on her hands herself, after which a false case of acid attack was registered.
(ANI)