India, Oct. 28 -- The false acid attack accusation on a man and his associates in Delhi by a 20-year-old woman near Laxmi Bai College was an attempt by her to trap him after his wife filed a rape and blackmail complaint against her father.

The case in which a man was initially arrested over allegations of throwing acid on the woman near Laxmi Bai College on Sunday later turned around after CCTV footage contradicted the accounts of the woman.

The father of a 20-year-old Delhi University student has admitted that he staged the incident to frame three men with whom he had personal disputes, an earlier HT report quoted investigators aware of the matter as saying on Monday.

The man, police said, also confessed to raping the wife of one of t...