LAHORE: A Lahore court on Monday indicted Mufti Aziz-ur-Rehman, his sons and accomplices in the sexual assault case of a madrassah student.
Judicial Magistrate Rana Rashid heard the case and adjourned the hearing till Tuesday. The magistrate asked the police to submit record and ordered the public prosecutor to present witnesses on the next hearing.
Earlier on June 17, the police had registered a case against Aziz, his sons, and two other unidentified men, after a video of the cleric, which showed him sexually assaulting a student, provoked outrage on social media.
In his video, the student said Aziz had “sexually abused” him and then the cleric’s sons started “blackmailing and threatening to kill” him. “If justice is not done, I will commit suicide,” the student had warned.
Mufti Aziz had denied the accusation of sexual abuse in a video statement
and claimed that he was drugged by his student before he was filmed.
The cleric had claimed that the videos were a conspiracy to remove him from
Jamia Manzoorul Islamia, Lahore.
