March, 12 2005	Saturday	1 Safar 1426

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QUETTA, March 11: Balochistan’s Home Minister Mir Shoaib Nausherwani has ordered an inquiry against a madressah teacher who is alleged to have injured a student seriously.

He issued the order when Mulla Dad Utmankhel, the chief of Innocent Rights Forum Balochistan, drew his attention to the victim’s condition during a meeting on Friday.

Minister for Prisons and Human Rights Mir Habibur Rehman Mohammad Hasni was present on the occasion.

Both the ministers assured that justice would be provided to the victim.

They said that torturing students was a reprehensible act. They asked religious teachers to desist from subjecting students to corporal punishment.

They asked the officials concerned of the education department to submit their report on the matter at the earliest.

Akhtar Mohammad, an eight-year-old student of a madressa in Panjgur, lost his one hand after he was badly beaten by the teacher. Due to severe beating, his hand had been broken but nobody took him to hospital for treatment.

One of his relatives later brought him to the Civil Hospital Quetta where doctors amputated the hand in order to stop the spreading of poison in the body.