7 வயது மாணவனை குத்தி கொலை செய்த இஸ்லாமிய இமாம்

‘Overcome with guilt’: Cleric stabs seven-year-old student

By Rashid Yousufzai

Published: November 30, 2011

Manzoor Sheikh told the police he had brutally murdered his student Bilal Mughal because he had developed some issues with Bilal’s father. PHOTO: EXPRESS

TANDO ADAM: 

Five days after slaughtering a seven-year-old boy, the cleric of a mosque, situated in Joharabad, confessed to his horrific crime.

Saying he was overcome with guilt, Manzoor Sheikh told the police he had brutally murdered his student, grade two student Bilal Mughal, because he had developed some issues with Bilal’s father, Aslam Mughal, who was working as the finance secretary at the same seminary.

Sheikh told authorities he was infuriated with Aslam’s constant interference in the seminary’s affairs, and in a moment of weakness, took it out on his son.

Narrating the account, Sheikh said, Bilal showed up at the mosque with his uncle before Isha prayers on Friday and stayed back after saying his prayers.

Using that opportunity, Sheikh took the boy up to the roof, where construction was underway, and stabbed him with a blunt object.

When the seven-year-old’s parents noticed their child was missing, they set out to search for the boy, and found him critically wounded on the roof of the seminary. Bilal succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital.

Upon receiving complaints from residents, police arrested Sheikh on suspicion. He later confessed to the crime, saying his only motive was to settle a dispute with the boy’s father.

According to Aslam, Bilal would often serve Sheikh his meals thrice a day. “He killed my son! I want the government to publicly announce the death penalty for him!” said the grief-stricken father.

After the tragic admission, Sheikh’s wife termed his act “a heinous crime”, saying there was no way she would ever live with a man like him.

Sheikh was brought before the media on Tuesday outside the District Police Office where he admitted that he had killed the boy to get back at Aslam. During the briefing, Sanghar SSP Abdullah Shaikh told the media that a case would be lodged against the accused in the anti-terrorism court. People gathered at the briefing demanded that people like Sheikh be hanged publicly.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 30^th, 2011.

12 வயது முகம்மதை கற்பழித்து கொலை செய்த இமாம் கைது

ஹஃபீஸ் மன்சூர் அஹ்மது என்ற மசூதி இமாம் 12 வயது சிறுவனான முகம்மதை கற்பழிக்க முயற்சி செய்திருக்கிறார். அந்த சிறுவன் மறுத்ததால் அந்த சிறுவனை கொலை செய்துவிட்டார்.


KARACHI: Cleric indicted for boy�s murder
By Ishaq Tanoli

KARACHI, Jan 4: Additional district and sessions judge, East, Rana Zaki Shamsi on Friday indicted the moazzin of a mosque on charges of killing a 12-year-old boy in a mosque in Shah Faisal Colony.

Hafiz Manzoor Ahmed, who was accused of the crime, pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the case. The judge summoned all prosecution witnesses to appear before the court in order to record their statements on the next hearing.

The murdered boy, Mohammed Anas, belonged to Muzaffargarh in Punjab and had been staying in Karachi with his maternal grandfather Qari Abdul Rehman, who teaches at a madressah adjacent to Masjid-i-Aqsa.

According to the prosecution, the body of the student was found hanging in Shah Faisal Colony�s Masjid-i-Aqsa on Oct 30, 2007.

The police suspected that it was not a case of suicide, as it appeared to be, but that the boy had been murdered.

The Shah Fasial Colony police registered a case (FIR No 294/2007) under Section 302 of the Pakistan Penal Code against Hafiz Manzoor Ahmed, the moazzin of the mosque. He was arrested on Nov 1 and sent into jail custody.

The investigation officer of the case, sub-inspector Ghulam Mustafa Shah of the Shah Fasial Colony police station, submitted a charge-sheet to the court of judicial magistrate-I, East, on Nov 15. In the charge-sheet, the IO said that the accused had tried to sexually abuse the boy. Upon the boy�s resistance, the accused killed him.

Judicial magistrate, East, Maqbool Ahmed Memon, has already recorded the confessional statement of the accused.

About 14 prosecution witnesses, including Mohammed Naveed Akthar, Qari Abdul Rehman, Noman, Raees Noori, Dr Abdul Jabbar (the medico-legal officer at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre), sub-inspector Yusuf Niazi and assistant sub-inspector Amin Memon, will testify on the next hearing, which the court has fixed for Jan 21.