Hyderabad: A madrasa teacher was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment on Thursday, July 2, for sodomising an 11-year-old boy in 2022.
The incident came to light when the victim’s father filed a complaint with the Balapur Police, stating that his son had been regularly attending Madrasa Amia Noorul Anwar in Shaheen Nagar but had stopped going to classes.
Sexual assault and threat
When the father asked his son for the reason, the boy recounted that on March 23, 2022, the convict, Syed Nadeem, forcibly took him to his house, stripped him, and committed unnatural sex. Nadeem also threatened to kill the boy if he disclosed the matter to anyone.
Case details
The case was initially registered at Balapur Police Station and later transferred to Chandrayangutta Police Station for further investigation. Following the trial, Nadeem was convicted under Sections 3 read with 4 of the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. In addition to the rigorous imprisonment, the court imposed a fine of ₹10,000 on Nadeem.
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