[DAWN] There was no confession in the serial child abuse case in Kasur's Husain Khanwala village but the principal accused gave a strange twist to the happenings by saying that he used to be present when the crimes were committed and filmed in a classroom of the academy where he and those captured in the clips studied.Media reports suggested that the accused had confessed to their crime, but Kasur's DPO Rai Baber Saeed told Dawn that no confession had been made. He said police were investigating the matter and would submit a report to the court.
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The only development he reported was the arrest of another accused, Usman. Six others, including the principal accused, Haseem Amir, were incarcerated
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on Thursday.
The DPO said there were nearly 15 accused in the seven FIRs registered. Police are conducting raids to arrest another two accused while the remaining were on bail.
This news hound met the accused in Kasur's Police Station B Division where they are being kept instead of the Ganda Singhwal Police Station for security reasons. Six of them are in their early 20s and the seventh, Abdul Mannan, says he is 14 years old.
They all said they were innocent. The principal accused, Haseem, 25, said he was innocent because none of the films seized by police showed him indulging in any abuse. When asked whether he used to film the child abuse, he said he would sit in the classroom where his classmates would commit the crime.
He claimed that he and others had been implicated in the case because some people wanted to grab 16.50 acres of land his family had purchased.
Others did not come up with any such reason. Ali Majid said the one Mubin who had raised the issue allegedly to grab the land had abused him and wanted his father to stop cultivating fodder there.
The villagers, victims and their relatives who said they had kept quiet because of fear and shame were now openly talking about what they called the brazen deeds of the accused. There was no more fear of the accused or shame as they were readily giving details of the events.
There were no police in the village, but plainclothesmen were there to keep an eye on the mood of the villagers.
The fear was no more there because of one Mubin Ghaznavi, reportedly a former Jamaat-e-Islami
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worker who continued to urge the victims and their families to stick to their allegations. Two lawyers -- Latif Sohra from Lahore and Chaudhry Munir -- were also seen in the village and were reportedly supporting the victims.
Some people, including Lambardar Saifullah, alleged that the JI man and the two lawyers were after the 16.50 acres of irrigated land which the family of the principal accused known as Karmoo group had purchased. But they could not satisfy many as to how one could ask people to say that they had been sodomised for settling the score.