Delhi Police on Thursday arrested a cleric (maulvi), who was absconding after allegedly sodomising a 12-year-old boy in Delhi's Sarai Rohilla area.
According to a senior police official, the accused has been identified as Mohammad Isran.
“The police had filed an FIR under the POCSO Act and 377, 506 Sections of the IPC,” he said.
According to Sagar Singh Kalsi, DCP North Delhi, the accused had committed unnatural sex with the victim several times after sedating him. “Earlier in another instance from Madhya Pradesh, Maulvi Abdul Samad was arrested and sent to judicial custody for allegedly molesting a 5-year-old girl inside a madrasa in Khandwa district in October,” police said.
The accused was the Maulvi of Emanual Madrasa of Zakaria Masjid, Khanshawali in Khandwa district.
According to police, the matter came to light when the 5-year-old complained of chest pain following which her parents registered a complaint at the Moghat Police Station.
Police arrested the accused and produced him in court, which remanded him to judicial custody.
A case was registered against the accused under Section 354 of the IPC and the POCSO Act.
Meanwhile, Hours after the alleged rape of a 12-year-old boy by a cleric in a North Delhi madrasa came to light, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) team inspected the place, and asserted that it's an “unrecognised madrasa”, and lacks basic facilities like “separate washrooms” for boys and girls.