A Maulvi named ‘Shabbir Raza’ was arrested in August 2024 for allegedly raping at least five minor girls, aged 5 to 9 years, inside the premises of an illegal Madrasa in Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur. A dispute erupted in this case on the 17th of September in the Malsi village after a confrontation between the supporters and accused of Maulvi.
However, the confrontation took a very violent turn as the two parties started firing and attacking which led to five to six people injured. The police took three of the injured persons identified as Mohammad Yunus, Shahid Ahmed, and Kabir Ahmed to the district hospital after the altercation. According to the media reports, the accused Maulvi used to scare the minor girls by telling them stories of ‘djinns’ and threatening to unleash those spirits on their parents. He is also accused of showing the minor girls sexual videos on his phone.
At around 10 pm on Tuesday, Mohammad Khurshid (supporting accused Maulvi) and Nabi Hasan (one of the complainants against the Maulvi) got in an argument over the case against the accused Maulvi and soon it took a violent turn. SP City Manoj Katyal, CO Niharika Tomar and many other police officials reached the hospital and met the injured. PAC teams were deployed in the affected Malsi village to maintain law and order.
SP City Manoj Katyal said about the incident that there was a dispute in the village Malsi of Rudrapur Kotwali area wherein number of rounds of firing were done by the clashing parties and seven people were injured. Meanwhile, Mohammad Hussain of the injured side said that the other side wanted to attack since evening and for this, they had called youths from outside to the village.
According to the media reports, the complainant side including Nabi Hasan was being pressured by the supporters of the accused Maulvi to withdraw the case. According to the media reports, the accused Maulvi, Shabbir Raza, was arrested on 18th August from Malsi village in Uttarakhand’s Rudrapur. Raza arrived in Malsi only two months before his arrest as he was earlier living in Rampur Shahbad.
The crime came to limelight when one of the minors narrated her ordeal to her family members on 16th August. On the next day, her mother filed a Police complaint in this matter and the police investigation confirmed the sexual exploitation of at least five girls. Raza used to beat older boys on the pretext that they didn’t complete their homework and sent them away and he also asked older girls to leave by giving them a lot of homework. However, he used to make the younger girls, aged 5-9, stay at the Madrassa for extra classes.
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