Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan · 2023

Pakistan: Bahawalpur madrassa teacher sentenced to 20 years for assaulting his Quran student

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

Quran teacher (Qari) at a madrassah, Bahawalpur

Organization

madrassah, Bahawalpur

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Aziz taught the girl the Quran in his own madrassa room; that religious-instruction role is what put her alone with him.

Pastoral or clerical authority
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

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Additional Sessions Court, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. Qari Abdul Aziz, 60, was convicted under Section 377-B of the Pakistan Penal Code and sentenced to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment plus a fine of one million rupees, for the attempted rape of a 10-year-old girl who attended his madrassah to learn the Quran. He was caught in the act by the girl's father and others who entered his room after she failed to return home from the madrassah.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious authority over a student attending Quran lessons
private access to the student in his madrassa room

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting sentencing report The Current, 'Bahawalpur madrassa teacher sentenced to 20 years for attempted rape of minor girl.': Reports the Additional Sessions Court verdict, the Section 377-B charge, the 20-year sentence and fine, and the circumstances of the girl's father discovering the assault after she attended Quran lessons.

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Source and tier basis: https://thecurrent.pk/bahawalpur-madrassa-teacher-sentenced-to-20-years-for-attempted-rape-of-minor-girl/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 5ba5c05d91867b62d60ddf9ea47f2708c511ae8f2be6d5e502655214cabd0b46
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