Madrassa teacher held for sexual abuse of minor girls

Mangaluru: A madrassa teacher has been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of two minor girls at Kundadka in Dakshina Kannada district. Police said the accused, Ustad Sirajuddin Madani, teacher of a madrassa in Kundadka, had allegedly been sexually assaulting two minor girls studying there. The arrest was made on the basis of a complaint by the mothers of the two girls who had narrated their ordeal . The complaint was fi led at the women’s police station in Puttur. A case was registered against Madani under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.