Madrasa teacher arrested for sodomising student

CHENNAI: In a shocking incident, a Madrasa teacher was arrested and charged with ‘immoral sex’ after inquiries revealed that he had sodomised his 11-year-old student. The victim, who had to be hospitalised, is recovering. M Talat (name changed) attended classes at a Madarasa on Raja Hyder Street in Anna Salai to learn Arabic and the Koran, Inspector Murugesan, the investigating officer, told ‘Express’. A resident of Bangaru Naicken Street in the same locality, Talat was a class six student at a private school in Triplicane, he said. “Three sessions are conducted daily at the Madarasa and a total of 40 students attend them. The boy attended the 6 am - 7 am session,” the officer said. On December 19, Talat, as usual, attended class and on returning home, complained of rectal pain. But his family members did not pay much heed to it and the boy had gone to school. “In the evening, the pain increased and his grandfather Hussain Basha took him to the GH in Royapettah and then to the children’s hospital in Egmore,” Murugesan said. When the doctors examined him, they found that his rectum was ruptured and suspected that the boy had been sodomised. Following this, Basha lodged a complaint with the Anna Salai police on Monday. Upon questioning Talat, it came to light that he was sodomised by his teacher Mohammad Mehtab Alam.Investigation revealed that Alam, after sending away all the students, asked Talat to stay back on December 19. Alam, a native of Bihar, had been teaching at the Madarasa run by Altaf (55) for the last two-and-a-half years. “Inquiries revealed that he took the boy to his room and raped him,” the Inspector said.On learning that the police were after him, Alam absconded, following which the police picked up Altaf and served an ultimatum on him to produce the teacher, sources said. However, Alam gave himself up at the Anna Salai police station on Tuesday evening and was booked under Section 377 (immoral sex) and produced before the 13th Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which remanded him to judicial custody.