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Kerala: Madrasa teacher arrested for sexually harassing children

| @indiablooms | Jun 02, 2019, at 04:21 pm

Thiruvananthapuram,June 2 (IBNS): A Madrasa teacher has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing 19 children for the past two years in Kerala's Kottayam area, media reports said.

The teacher has been identified as Yusuf.

Sources told Times Now that he was employed as a teacher, at a local mosque in Kottayam district. From the last two years, Yusuf was teaching at the mosque in Thalayolaparambu where he sexually abused minor students. 

Shaista Ambar, All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board, told Times Now, in such cases of rape, the Islamic rules say that the accused should be publically executed. And if teachers commit such crimes, there should be stringent punishment for him.

Further investigation into the incident is going on.

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