70-year-old priest thrashed and arrested for sexual abuse

INDIA
Times of India

By V Narayan, TNN | Jan 11, 2013

MUMBAI: A 70-year-old dargah priest in Mumbai was thrashed by a mob before being handed over to the police on Thursday for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl and them making an MMS clip of the act.

Niyad Ahmed Hasan Ansari, sadar of a dargah in Mumbai was arrested on Thursday and his phone, which he used to make the MMS, seized. As the news spread, two more minor girls and their parents came forward as witnesses in the case against Ansari. “The two minor girls were his victims too. The accused had dismissed the teachers who use to come to the dargah to teach Arabic. After sacking them, he started taking the classes where sexually abused the minor girls,” a police source said.

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