Seminary pupil beaten for carrying phone

Police arrest madrasssa teachers, two others

RAWALPINDI:

A teenage madrasah student was chained and hung upside down as a ‘punishment’ by his teacher and two class fellows for keeping a cell phone.

Waris Khan Police have booked the religious teachers and the students who tortured the victim. Bahadur Khan, who lives in the Hukumdad neighbourhood, informed the police that his 13-year-old son, studied and lived in the said seminary. Bahadur said that he had givien his son a mobile phone to stay connected with family.

However, the religious teacher, Qari Mushtaq came to know about it. He brutally beat the boy and called three other students including Irfan, Taimur, and Siddiqullah to assist him. The fellows held the teenager and hung him upside down with a metal chain.

The suspects took off the victim’s shalwar too, to humiliate him. The complaint said that wound marks were visible on his son’s body while there is a wound near the eye too.

In this regard, Waris Khan SHO Inspector Abdul Aziz said that that they have registered a case against the suspects and arrested Qari Mushtaq, Irfan, and Taimur.

The police are searching for the absconding suspect and conducting raids on different locations.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 4^th, 2020.