MANSEHRA: The police on Tuesday arrested a seminary teacher for assaulting a 12-year-old student after forcibly confining him at his home for two days in the Lassan Nawab area here.

“We have arrested the accused cleric, who assaulted a seminary student,” SHO Lassan Nawab police Akhtar Nawaz told reporters.

He said that following the registration of the FIR, district police officer Shafiullah Khan Gandapur constituted a team, which arrested the accused, Sajjad Ahmad.

SHO Nawaz said that the boy was shifted to Rural Health Centre, Lassan Nawab, where doctors performed his medical check-up. “The report will be released within a couple of days.”

He said the police, after lodging the FIR under section 376 of Pakistan Penal Code, had started further investigation.

The father of the victim lodged the FIR with the police, stating that the accused confined his son for two days at his residence in Lassan Nawab and assaulted him.

“When the condition of my son deteriorated, he shifted him to the seminary but didn’t allow him to go home to hide his crime,” he added.

The complainant said that his son fled and reached his home and narrated his ordeal from which he had passed through at the house of the accused and later in the seminary.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2025