In a shocking development reported from the Saharsa district of Bihar, a Madrasa teacher has been arrested by the Bihar police for raping/sexually exploiting a minor girl student of his on October 8. According to the reports, the Madrasa teacher had been raping the victim girl for months, and his misdeed got highlighted when the girl was impregnated.
Upon learning about the matter, the family members of the victim girl then reached the Sadar police station and filed a complaint against the accused, following which the police arrested the accused teacher, Mohammad Imtiyaz. Meanwhile, the victim girl has been admitted to a private health care centre where she is being treated.
Speaking with the media, Sudhakar Kumar Thana, Incharge Sadar police station, said, “a matter pertaining to sexual exploitation of a minor by her Madrasa teacher has come to light. We have filed a First Information Report (FIR) in this regard and arrested the accused after the complaint seems to be true during the initial investigation. The victim girl is being treated.”
नाबालिक छात्रा से दुष्कर्म करने वाला मदरसे का आरोपी शिक्षक गिरफ्तार pic.twitter.com/ebWXEzVl61
— News18 Bihar (@News18Bihar) October 9, 2023
Meanwhile, in a press note released on October 9, the Saharsa police informed that the accused has been sent to judicial custody while the girl is being treated in a private hospital.
Recent cases of sexual exploitation in Madrasa
It is to be noted that this is not the first time that a case of sexual exploitation has surfaced from a Madarsa in Bihar, and Organiser has reported such instances in the past as well. Earlier, in a similar case reported from Motihari, a minor girl had accused a cleric of sexually harassing her in the Kathan Government Madrasa under the Mehsi police station of East Champaran.
According to the reports, the minor victim, in her complaint to the police, had informed that the cleric Jamshed Alam had stopped the victim girl on the pretext of giving her homework, though Jamshed Alam later clicked some vulgar pictures with the victim and then started sexually exploiting and blackmailing her after that.
When the victim girl confronted the cleric, he threatened her to make the obscene pictures viral. However, fed up with the blackmailing, somehow, the girl mustered some courage and narrated her ordeal with her family members. Learning upon the incident when the victim’s father confronted the cleric, the latter first threatened the victim’s father and later arrived at the girl’s place with goons and threatened the family for dire consequences.
However, after initially being fearful of cleric threatening, the family finally mustered the courage and registered a complaint against the accused around one and a half years after the incident of exploitation in May this year. It was then reported that after the complaint, the cleric was found to be absconding.
In another shocking incident reported from Siwan, a video of which had also gone viral on social media, a cleric of the Andar Mosque under Andar police station of Siwan district was seen molesting a minor girl in the uniform in July this year.
सोशल मीडिया पर वायरल खबर सिवान जिला अंतर्गत एक मौलवी द्वारा एक नाबालिग के साथ दुर्व्यवहार।
इस घटना के संबंध में मौलवी के विरुद्ध थाना में कांड दर्ज कर अनुसंधान प्रारंभ किया गया है।#digsaran #BiharPolice #HainTaiyaarHum #janpolice pic.twitter.com/P6flV0JvPI— SIWAN POLICE (@sp_siwan) July 29, 2023
It was then reported that the cleric Mohammad Massom hails from Muzaffarpur and was currently residing in the Andar Mosque, while the girl used to come to the mosque to teach Urdu to the children.
The incident came to light after a video of the obscene act of the cleric went viral on social media, following which the Siwan police registered a case against the accused and started an investigation into the matter.
