DARGAI: A teacher of a Jamaat-e-Islami-run madrassa was forced to walk naked in the bazaar on the charge of molesting a minor in Sakhakot area in Malakand Agency on Friday as the party leaders refuted the allegation and termed it part of a conspiracy.
Sources said the teacher in Madrassa Taleemul Quran, Qari Sajid Mehmood, allegedly molested a six-year-old child whose name is being withheld and is resident of Sakhakot. After the incident, many protestors some of whom were armed and relatives of the child took out a procession and blocked the busy Malakand Road. Later the security forces managed to open the road for traffic.
The protesters clashed with the madrassa administration and students in which two persons were injured while the Malakand Levies personnel arrested two persons. The sources said that the residents also picked up the teacher and made him walk naked in the bazaar.
The security forces shifted the injured teacher to the Agency Headquarters Hospital and closed the seminary for an indefinite period. Meanwhile, addressing a hurriedly called press conference at Jamia Masjid in Sakhakot Bazaar, Jamaat-i-Islami Dargai tehsil head Maulana Jamaluddin, district general secretary Muhammad Tahir, administrator of the madrassa Maulana Muhammad Tayyab, Muhammad Zaman, Fazal Qayum, Maulana Fazal Haq, Sabirur Rehman and others said that it was a conspiracy against the seminary and its teachers.
They demanded of the security forces to hold an impartial inquiry into the incident and take legal action against the persons who attacked the seminary. They accused the local leadership of Awami National Party of hatching a conspiracy against the seminary and teachers.
They quoted Dr Anwar Saadat as saying that when the child was brought to him, his father told him that the child had been molested at his uncle’s home. Meanwhile, case will be registered concerning this incident after receiving the medical report about the child.
