5-YR-OLD BOY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED AT MADRASA
Four perpetrators have been charged under sections of IPC, POCSO and JJ acts. The minor had visited the place to study the Quran when the incident occurred
In yet another case of child sexual abuse at a madrasa in Kondhwa, a 15-year-old boy was allegedly sexually assaulted in April. Activists claim that around eight minors were sexually abused in the same madrasa.
A first information report (FIR) was registered at the Kondhwa police station on Friday night against one of the teachers Hafees Israr, Mufti Shahid, Tousif and madrasa owner Mufti Shakir Khan.
The accused have been charged for offences under Section 377 (unnatural offences) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), section 3 (penetrative sexual assault) and 4 (punishment for sexual offence) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and 75 (punishment for cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
Deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Kalpana Barawakar confirmed that the FIR has been registered against the four perpetrators. According to cops, the incident occurred in April this year. But, it came to light when the children went home during the Ramadan vacations and narrated the episode to their parents. Another teacher from the madrasa had also alerted some parents about it.
Meanwhile, a member of a nongovernmental organisation (NGO), Maharashtra Action Committee, Azhar Tamboli and child rights activist, working with the NGO Sakhi, Anjali Pawar, learnt about the case and approached the police. "The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) recorded statements of the children and the case was finally registered on Friday night," Pawar said.
Sources told Mirror that the audio evidence clearly indicates that Khan was giving instructions to his accomplices to help in 'managing' the case. Khan also tried to make a video where the 15-year-old, who went to the madrasa to study the Quran, would deny being sexually assaulted.
Condemning the incident, Tamboli said, "The community must act against such people, who indulge in sexual abuse of children under the garb of running a madrasa".
Earlier, in December 2013, an 11- year-old male student from the same madrasa was allegedly molested by a teacher, Hafiz Riyaz. Again, in January 2014, Mufti Shakir Khan had been arrested after an FIR was registered against him by a woman, alleging that he had sexually assaulted and had unnatural sex with her. The woman claimed to have first met Khan when he was a mufti (equivalent to a judge under Islamic law) in June 2013 when she approached him for counselling about her troubled marriage.
Khan advised her to divorce her husband, to which she agreed. The divorce came through within a month, following which Khan convinced her to marry him. He married the woman in July 2013 under Sharia law, but no registration (nikaahnama) was done. He is currently out on bail in the case.
█ The community must act against such people, who indulge in sexual abuse of children under the garb of running a madrasa
- AZHAR TAMBOLI, MEMBER OF MAHARASHTRA ACTION COMMITTEE
In yet another case of child sexual abuse at a madrasa in Kondhwa, a 15-year-old boy was allegedly sexually assaulted in April. Activists claim that around eight minors were sexually abused in the same madrasa.
A first information report (FIR) was registered at the Kondhwa police station on Friday night against one of the teachers Hafees Israr, Mufti Shahid, Tousif and madrasa owner Mufti Shakir Khan.
The accused have been charged for offences under Section 377 (unnatural offences) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), section 3 (penetrative sexual assault) and 4 (punishment for sexual offence) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and 75 (punishment for cruelty to child) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
Deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Kalpana Barawakar confirmed that the FIR has been registered against the four perpetrators. According to cops, the incident occurred in April this year. But, it came to light when the children went home during the Ramadan vacations and narrated the episode to their parents. Another teacher from the madrasa had also alerted some parents about it.
Meanwhile, a member of a nongovernmental organisation (NGO), Maharashtra Action Committee, Azhar Tamboli and child rights activist, working with the NGO Sakhi, Anjali Pawar, learnt about the case and approached the police. "The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) recorded statements of the children and the case was finally registered on Friday night," Pawar said.
Sources told Mirror that the audio evidence clearly indicates that Khan was giving instructions to his accomplices to help in 'managing' the case. Khan also tried to make a video where the 15-year-old, who went to the madrasa to study the Quran, would deny being sexually assaulted.
Condemning the incident, Tamboli said, "The community must act against such people, who indulge in sexual abuse of children under the garb of running a madrasa".
Earlier, in December 2013, an 11- year-old male student from the same madrasa was allegedly molested by a teacher, Hafiz Riyaz. Again, in January 2014, Mufti Shakir Khan had been arrested after an FIR was registered against him by a woman, alleging that he had sexually assaulted and had unnatural sex with her. The woman claimed to have first met Khan when he was a mufti (equivalent to a judge under Islamic law) in June 2013 when she approached him for counselling about her troubled marriage.
Khan advised her to divorce her husband, to which she agreed. The divorce came through within a month, following which Khan convinced her to marry him. He married the woman in July 2013 under Sharia law, but no registration (nikaahnama) was done. He is currently out on bail in the case.
█ The community must act against such people, who indulge in sexual abuse of children under the garb of running a madrasa
- AZHAR TAMBOLI, MEMBER OF MAHARASHTRA ACTION COMMITTEE
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