Guwahati: A 43-year-old Muslim preacher was arrested on suspicion of raping a minor girl in Silchar of Assam.
Police report that the incident took place on October 29. It came to light the next day as a result of a police complaint made by the mother of the minor girl.
The mother, upon seeing her seven-year-old daughter in a traumatized condition, questioned her, after which the minor girl narrated the entire incident.
“We send our daughter for religious studies like any other parents in the Islamic community. That day we noticed her in a traumatized state and she told us that the Maulavi touched her wrongly and also threatened her,” said the rape survivor’s mother.
Meanwhile, police have filed a complaint against the accused cleric under sections 447, 376 AB, and 354 of the Indian Penal Code as well as section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) act.
Police said that the preacher fled after the complaint was filed but was later arrested in Silchar’s Kanakpur area.