NEW DELHI: A trial court has acquitted a youth of raping and blackmailing a woman after the woman admitted that she had lodged a false complaint against him because of pressure from her husband and father-in-law.

The woman was "willingly engaged" in sexual relations with the youth, the court said, and had lent him money of her "own will".

"It is seen that the prosecutrix (woman) has deposed contrary to the prosecution case. It is also evident that the accused had not extorted any amount of money from her and she had given a sum of Rs 6 lakh of her own will as loan, out of which she has already got back Rs 3 lakh," said additional sessions judge Virender Bhat.

The youth, who was staying as her tenant, was arrested on October 26, 2013 after the woman lodged a police complaint alleging that she was raped by the accused after being offered some allurement. The woman claimed that she was threatened by the youth who had said he had taken her obscene photographs and started blackmailing her by demanding money, which she had to give him from time to time.

"Despite this, the accused has been committing forcible sexual intercourse with the prosecutrix by issuing threat that he would show her obscene photographs," the woman's counsel had told the court.

However, the woman during her deposition before the court turned hostile and retracted from her earlier statement.