Latest News | Madrassa Teacher Held for Sexual Abuse of Minor Girls

Mangaluru, Feb 8 (PTI) A madrassa teacher has been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of two minor girls at Kundadka in Dakshina Kannada district.

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Police sources said the accused, identified as Ustad Sirajuddin Madani, teacher of a madrassa in Kundadka, had allegedly been sexually assaulting two minor girls studying there.

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The arrest was made on the basis of a complaint by the mothers of the two girls who had narrated their ordeal to them. The complaint was filed at the women's police station in Puttur.

A case was registered against Madani under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and he was produced in a court here on Monday and remanded to judicial custody, the sources said.

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