Lucknow:

A madrassa teacher has been arrested for allegedly holding a 12-year-old girl captive and raping her in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur, police said on Tuesday. 

Maulvi Rahmat Ali teaches at a madrassa in a village under the Uruwa police station in Gorakhpur. Officials said that, following her daily routine, the 12-year-old girl went to the madrassa to study on Monday morning. About two and a half hours after classes began, Ali sent the other children home but held the girl back under some pretext. 

He held her captive, raped her and threatened to kill her if she made any noise. 

When the girl reached home, she told her mother about what the maulvi (cleric) had done. The girl’s mother went to the police station to lodge a complaint and when people in the area found out about the alleged rape, they began searching for Ali and thrashed him before handing him over to the police. 

Superintendent of Police (South) Jitendra Kumar said, “After the complaint, a case was registered and the victim was medically examined. Her statement has been recorded.”

Officials said Ali has been charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act as well. 
 

New Delhi:

Amid a nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor in Kolkata, a 14-year-old girl has died after allegedly being raped by her teacher in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra.

The victim, a Class 8 student, was a resident of a village in Duddhi of the Sonbhadra district. She died late Tuesday at the Banaras Hindu University Hospital in Varanasi, where she was admitted for 20 days.

The accused – Vishambar – is on the run.

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According to the victim’s family, the accused worked as a sports instructor in the school and had called her to participate in a sports event on December 30 last year. He then took her to his house and raped her.

The family said the victim, fearing public shame, didn’t them anything and that her health gradually deteriorated after the incident.

She was sent to Chhattisgarh to visit her relatives, where she was treated but her health condition remained the same. The victim then broke the silence and told her aunt about the incident, and was then admitted to the hospital.

Accused Paid Family Rs 30,000

According to the family, the accused gave them Rs 30,000 to remain silent.

The family said they didn’t report the incident to the authorities because they feared public shame. But as the victim’s health condition worsened, her father filed a police complaint on July 10 and a case was registered against Vishambar, a resident of Ballia in Uttar Pradesh.

The police have registered a case under the POCSO Act and formed two teams to arrest him.

“The accused will be arrested soon,” a senior police official said on Tuesday.

थाना दुद्धी क्षेत्रान्तर्गत एक छात्रा के साथ हुए दुष्कर्म के संबंध में क्षेत्राधिकारी दुद्धी श्री प्रदीप सिंह चंदेल की बाइट-@Uppolice@adgzonevaranasi@digmirzapur@ANI@Live_Hindustan@bstvlivepic.twitter.com/mU9GVU6TCy

— Sonbhadra Police (@sonbhadrapolice) August 16, 2024

The incident comes amid a nationwide outrage over the rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor during her working hours in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

The 31-year-old’s semi-naked body was found in the seminar hall of the government-run hospital last week.