Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Lohagara, Chattogram, Bangladesh · 2025

Bangladesh: madrasa hifz-section teacher sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his nine-year-old residential student

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Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

madrasa teacher (hifz/Quran-memorization section)

Organization

Hifz madrasa, Lohagara upazila, Chattogram

Archive classification

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A residential hifz student under his teacher's live-in custodial and religious authority inside the madrasa.

Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
Institutional obedience or isolation

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-08-27 · trial judgment

Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, Chattogram. The tribunal convicted madrasa teacher Riad Uddin of raping a nine-year-old student who had enrolled in the hifz (Quran-memorization) section three months earlier as a residential student, and sentenced him to life imprisonment with hard labour, a fine of 50,000 taka, and a further three months' imprisonment in default of payment. The assault occurred on the madrasa premises on 22 September 2022; the child disclosed it to his mother the next morning, and local residents surrounded the madrasa and detained the teacher before police arrived.

Documented coercion mechanisms

religious-school teacher's custodial authority over a residential child student
threats against disclosure

Cited record

Sources

national press trial verdict report 'ছাত্রকে ধর্ষণের দায়ে মাদ্রাসা শিক্ষকের যাবজ্জীবন' ["Life sentence for madrasa teacher over rape of student"], Bangla Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025.: Bangla-language report of the tribunal verdict, naming the teacher, the tribunal, the sentence terms, and the underlying facts including the child's residential hifz enrolment and the date of the assault.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://www.banglatribune.com/country/chitagong/912916/%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%A7%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A8 Corpus classification: national-press; evidentiary role: trial-verdict-report.
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