A Pano Aqil tehsil prayer leader from Sukkur was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping a ten-year-old girl.
Sukkur police registered a case against the suspect who directs the prayers in a mosque in the village of Dildar Samejo.
"We arrested the mosque's prayer leader after he was accused of raping a 10-year-old girl and filed a case against him," said Sukkur's SSP, Irfan Samoon.
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According to the SSP, the police issued a letter to carry out a medical examination of the girl. The girl used to take lessons from the Holy Quran from the prayer leader, she said.
The minor, narrating the incident, said that when she arrived at the mosque's premises for her lesson, someone told her that the teacher was calling her. "When I went to see him, he closed the door and the window, grabbed me, covered my mouth and held my arms."
The girl's father told her DawnNewsTV that the suspect had "subjected the girl to rape several times." "She informed us only after she got sick yesterday," he said.
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1514032/sukkur-prayer-leader-arrested-for-allegedly-raping-minor-student