As the protest rages on the right to wear hijab, a horrible case of sexual assault inside a madrasa in Hyderabad has emerged wherein a 10-year-old boy was raped by a Muslim cleric named Shoaib Akhtar who happens to be his teacher.
Akhtar, who teaches Arabic in the madrasa, was raping the minor every day until February 6 when the victim complained to his parents about pain in his private parts and the boy’s parents noticed he was bleeding and has swelling in his private parts.
Later the parents of the victim approached the Mailardevapally Police, and Akhtar was arrested from Darul Uloom madrasa. Meanwhile, Akhtar had threatened the victim not to reveal the sexual assault to anybody.
As per reports, the police are also investigating if Shoaib has also committed similar crimes. Inspector K Narasimha was quoted saying in a report “We have arrested Shoaib Akhtar on a complaint filed by the victim’s mother. A case of sodomy under section 377 of IPC has been registered against the accused,”.
Minors, whether they are boys or girls getting raped inside of an Islamic seminary are quite common and often such cases go unreported. Last month Imam Jamal Ahmad had raped an 8-year-old girl inside a mosque in UP’s Mainpuri.
The audacity of the Imam was such that he set the girl free only after she started bleeding profusely and he even made her swear in the name of the Quran, not to reveal to anybody what had happened and told her to come to the mosque every day to make things look normal.
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