Case against madrasa cleric for `sodomising` students

Police have registered a criminal case against the principal of a Delhi-based madrasa on charges of sodomising four students who fled the institute to take shelter here.

Ghaziabad: Police have registered a
criminal case against the principal of a Delhi-based madrasa
on charges of sodomising four students who fled the institute
to take shelter here.

Mural Islam (13), Raffaqat Hussain (16), Shamshad (14)
and Ajam (12) alleged that they were sodomised for two months
by Maulana Imran Khan of Madrasa Tehjibul Koran in Shastri
Nagar.

SSP Raghubir Lal said the students approached the
police last evening after running way from the madrasa and
narrated their story. Inspector Yogender Pathak in Kotwali
registered the complaint and sent the students to a government
hospital for medical examination.

The students said the Maulana would call them to his
room and beat them up if they objected to his advances.

They also said they were not given food regularly.

Three of the students belong to Bihar and the fourth
is from Uttar Pradesh.

Medical sources in MMG hospital said there was some
injury marks in and around the private parts of a boy.

SSP Lal said the case will be transferred to Delhi.

PTI

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