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20 students 'rescued' from seminary
 MUZAFFARGARH: Kotadu Police freed 20 children from a religious seminary where some of them were being kept in fetters in Hala village on Monday and arrested the person in charge of the seminary on charges of sexually abusing the children. We raided a madrassa and found 20 children there, 10 of whom were in fetters, and have registered a case of sexual harassment against the teacher, Qari Ghulam Rasul, on the complaint of two of the children, Muzaffargarh District Police Officer Rai Tahir told reporters.He said that five-year-old Ziaur Rehman and six-year-old Ishaq had told police that Ghulam Rasul had subjected them to sexual abuse, adding that another student, Irfan (15), had said that he had earlier tried to run away from the seminary after coming to know that Ghulam Rasul abused children but was recaptured and forced to live there. However, students Muhammad Idrees (16) and Muhammad Bilal (17) denied the charges of sexual abuse against Ghulam Rasul and said that Irfan was an absconding student. Posted by: Fred 2007-03-21 |
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