A day after a 19-year-old Delhi University student’s brother was apprehended for conspiracy and giving false information about a staged ‘acid attack’ on her, the police said they also arrested the woman’s father in the case. Already under arrest in a rape case, the student’s father was held Thursday on charges of causing grievous hurt by the use of acid, a senior police officer said.

The police said the DU student’s father was first arrested three days ago over a complaint of rape lodged by his neighbour. The student’s family initially blamed this complainant’s husband for the staged acid attack, along with two other men. However, a probe found that none of the three men were at the site of the alleged acid attack in Northwest Delhi , where the student claimed she was attacked on Sunday

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