RAWALPINDI: A seminary principal was arrested in Rawalpindi today (Monday) for allegedly sexually assaulting and torturing a minor girl, according to the Pirwadhai police.
A day earlier, the city police lodged a first information report (FIR) against the primary suspect, identified as Mufti Shahnawaz Ahmed, and a female instructor on the complaint of the victim’s father.
Talking to a private newspaper, Rawal Division SP Ziauddin said the suspect had obtained pre-arrest bail in the case. However, he was still arrested after two sections — 377-B (sexual abuse of a child) and 506(ii) (criminal intimidation) — were added to the FIR.
“The senior superintendent of police (SSP) investigation and I will oversee the investigation ourselves on the instructions of Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Mohammad Ahsan Younis,” he added.
The official further informed that police were recording statements of the seminary’s students to determine whether the suspect had tried to sexually assault any other female pupil. Meanwhile, medical reports confirmed that the student had been tortured, police said.
According to the FIR, the victim’s father said his daughter had been studying at the seminary for the last seven years. He further stated that on the day of the crime he received a phone call from the seminary’s management, requesting him to pick up his daughter as she had fainted.
The victim, upon regaining consciousness, informed him that the seminary principal had been trying to harass her for the last five to six months but she always managed to avoid him. The suspect had also been threatening the victim that if she told anyone about what he had been trying to do, he would kill her, the FIR added.
The FIR further stated that one of the teachers of the seminary took the victim into the principal’s room where he attempted to sexually assault her. However, when the victim resisted, she was subjected to torture by both the teacher and principal.
