On Thursday, Khwazakhela’s judicial magistrate delivered 11 suspects to police custody in a two -day physical prison in relation to the death of a student of Madressah at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat.
A young student was supposedly beaten until death by his MADRESSAH teachers on Monday night in Swat Chaliyar village. He was urgently taken to the nearest hospital by students and teachers, but the doctors declared him dead upon arrival. Police announced the arrest of 11 people a day ago, including the administrator of the unregistered seminar, in relation to the brutal murder.
Police presented the 11 suspects to the judicial magistrate of Khwazakhela today: the MADRESSAH administrator and another key person.
Swat District Police officer (DPO) Omar Khan said Dawn.com That the police had formed special equipment and a search operation was underway to stop the remaining two suspects.
“We have some key potential clients to locate the main suspects and we will reach them soon,” he said.
Meanwhile, the provincial chief of Wifaqul Madaris al-Arabia, Maulana Hussain Ahmad, strongly condemned the brutal beating and kill the student. He called the incident “a deeply tragic and painful event” for the entire community.
“It is unfortunate that after this incident, a specific propaganda campaign against Islamic seminars has been launched, ignoring their decades of collective service to society,” Ahmad told a press conference, where several other religious and academic leaders expressed their condolences.
A day before, the authorities said that Madressah where the incident occurred had been sealed, and added that the police arrested all Madressah’s staff, with nine more detained. There was a case in the police complaint under the child protection law.
According to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Law and its 2018 regulations, corporal punishment is a punishable crime, whose violation can result in up to six months in prison or a fine of RS50,000, or both.
In May of this year, the regulatory authority of KP private schools, through a notification, strictly prohibited corporal punishment in all private schools throughout the province after receiving complaints.
Violations, however, continue to prevail. According to a recent report from the KP Child Protection and Welfare Commission, children from all over the province were submitted to 33 different forms of abuse, including 14 corporal punishment incidents.
In April, a seminar teacher at Kasur was arrested allegedly hitting a student with a hot iron for not memorizing his lesson in Bangla Kambovan.
Cleric arrested in Swabi for torturing Metena in the mosque
Separately, a cleric was arrested in the Swabi district for “torturing” a six -year -old boy in a local mosque in the Chota Lahor de Swabi area, said police deputy superintendent (DSP) Muhammad Noman.
He said: “The cleric tortured the child for not remembering his lesson,” and added that a case was recorded against the suspect under Section 44 of the KP Child Protection and Welfare Law, 2010.
According to a first information report (FIR), seen by Dawn.comThe incident occurred a day at 6 pm
According to a press release issued by the DPO office, the child’s father informed the Police that his son was acquiring religious education at the Jamia Masjid in Meera Dhok, Mohalla, near Chota Lahor.
The father said his son went to the mosque according to his normal routine, but the red marks were clearly visible on his son’s back and suffered pain when he returned home, and added that his teacher had hit the child with a stick to be late.
The statement said a police team immediately arrived at the scene and arrested the suspect, registering a case against him.
DSP Noman said that such incidents should be reported to the local police immediately and that they were obliged to take quick and results -oriented steps.
“The children of this society are the children of all of us,” he said at a press conference.
