6 madrassa students held for killing imam in Ajmer over sex abuse

AJMER: The Ajmer police on Sunday detained six minor students of a madrasa for allegedly killing imam of Mohammadi Masjid, Maulana Mohammad Mahir (32), on April 27 for sexually abusing a student. Police also recovered mobile of Mahir and the rope used to strangulate him.

For the last 15 days, all the students stuck to their story that three masked men killed Mahir and threatened them to keep quiet.

Ajmer SP Devendra Kumar Bishnoi said that the case was a challenge for the special team of Ajmer police as nothing was emerging even after inspecting hundreds of CCTV footages and checking the background of Mahir who belonged to Uttar Pradesh and residing in the masjid for the last eight years. But, we took students into confidence who revealed everything, he said.

Bishnoi said, one of the students of madrasa was sexually abused by Mahir. When he threatened to reveal everything, Mahir lured him with money. Disturbed with regular his harassment, students decided to murder Mahir. They beat him severely with a stick and strangulated him to death with a rope, he said.

Bishnoi said that students told police that they were upset with regular sexual abuse of a student by Mahir. “Two days before the murder, Mahir had returned from his village in UP. The students bought sleeping pills from a medical shop on April 26, but Mahir dad dinner outside. When he returned, students gave him curd with pills. After some time, Maulana went to sleep. Students went to the storeroom and brought a stick and rope. When he was sleeping, they hit his head with the stick. He tried to stand up, but they put the rope around his neck and strangulated him. He then went unconscious. They left the room after checking that his heartbeat has stopped.”

Later, Tosif Ashraf of the mosque filed a complaint and police detained six minors.

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