ISLAMABAD – A case has been registered against a government school teacherfor harassing a nine-year-old female student.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered at Waris KhanPolice Station, Rehamdad Khan, a resident of Qasimabad, claimed, “Mynine-year-old daughter was avoiding going to school. When I asked her thereason she said that her teacher Zubair Ahmed sexually harassed her duringbreak time and threatened of killing her if she told anyone.”
When the locals came to know about the incident, a large number of peoplereached the Government Primary School for Girls at Qasimabad to beat theteacher up.
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) former general secretary Zaheer Ahmed Awanand Member of Provincial Assembly Seemabia Tahir also reached the school.
The police arrested the accused from the school’s premises and registeredan FIR under section 376, 511 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Court.
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Two more students came forward leveling the same accusation against theteacher.
PTI’s Zaheer Ahmed Awan later said that the people who had surrounded theschool’s building looked so angry that he feared they would take law intheir own hands and kill the teacher.
Later, Provincial Minister Raja Rashid Hafeez also reached the policestation to inquire into the matter. He ordered the District EducationAuthority’s chief executive officer to also hold a department inquiryagainst the head master of the school.
