TAXILA: A teacher sexually assaulted his student and filmed the incident on his mobile phone in the limits of the Hassanabdal police station on Sunday.

According to a complaint filed with the police, the teacher is said to have asked a student from his ninth grade class to go with him, saying he will give him his roll number slip. The teacher and his friend are said to have assaulted the boy and the two accused are said to have filmed the incident on a mobile phone.

The police registered a case against the accused under the relevant sections of the Pakistan Penal Code but no arrests were made till the filing of this report.

Separately, a mother and son were killed and six were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger van and a rickshaw on the Rawalpindi-Kohat Road in Attock on Sunday. All victims are from the same family.

The police said Ahmed Ali, his mother Naseem Bibi and six other family members were travelling on a rickshaw when the recklessly driven passenger van hit the rickshaw. Ahmed and his mother died on the spot. The police registered a case against the driver of the van and started further investigations.

Published in Dawn, February 26th, 2018