KARACHI: Police submitted on Friday a charge sheet before the administrative judge of antiterrorism courts against a seminary teacher in a rape and extortion case.

The 60-year-old suspect was arrested on April 4 for allegedly subjecting his teenage student to sexual assault and filming the offence at his seminary in Korangi a few years ago and later blackmailing the girl’s parents for money after she got married.

The investigating officer in the charge sheet said that the suspect raped the complainant’s daughter at the seminary in Bengali Camp in Korangi a few years ago and later the victim got married and also has a baby. Thereafter, the suspect blackmailed the father of the victim with videos of her in order to extort money, it added.

The investigation report further said that three other victims of criminal assault from the same locality also turned up during the investigation and recorded their statements under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code against the suspect before a judicial magistrate.

The IO placed around 10 prosecution witnesses in the investigation report.

After admitting the charge sheet, the administrative judge of ATCs, Karachi, sent the case to ATC-I for trial.

Initially, the FIR was registered under Section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s father at the Korangi police station.

Later Section 384 (punishment for extortion) of the PPC read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 were also incorporated in the case.

Published in Dawn, May 5th, 2018

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