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Seminary teacher’s bail rejected in child pornography case

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Farooq Sami
Farooq Sami
Farooq Sami reports for ARY News as a Court reporter in Karachi, he tweets at @FarooqSamiARY

KARACHI: A Karachi court on Wednesday rejected an application filed by a seminary teacher seeking bail in a case pertaining to child pornography.

The judicial magistrate observed that the accused faces serious charges with concrete evidence available on record to corroborate them.

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“The accused is not entitled to any concession at this stage of the trial,” the court ruled.

According to the prosecution, the accused, a religious tutor, was arrested over allegations of child pornography and harrassing a teenage girl. A mobile phone was recovered from his possession with obsence images of the minor victim in the device.

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The FIA’s Cyber Crime Circle had arrested him on a complaint lodged by a woman.

The complainant said her daughter had been physically abused by the religious teacher who took her obscene pictures and later used them to harass and blackmail her, demanding money.

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