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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Vengara, Malappuram, Kerala, India · 2025

India: madrasa teacher sentenced to 86 years for raping a 12-year-old student inside the institution

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

madrasa teacher, Vengara, Malappuram

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

The victim was the defendant's own madrasa student, assaulted inside the institution during the access his teaching role gave him.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-07-14 · conviction and sentence

    POCSO fast-track special court, Manjeri, Malappuram, Kerala, India. Jabir Ali, a teacher at a madrasa in Vengara, was convicted of raping a 12-year-old student inside the institution's bathroom on the morning of 21 April 2022. He was sentenced to a cumulative 86 years' rigorous imprisonment under multiple sections of the POCSO Act, with a fine of Rs 4.5 lakh.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • religious-teacher access to a student inside the madrasa building

Primary record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report 'Madrasa teacher Jabir Ali gets 86 years jail for raping minor girl', Organiser, 15 Jul. 2025.

Report of the conviction and cumulative sentence.

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