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As the treating physician, Dr Sayma shared necessary information with the media about the victim’s condition. Her statements were aired on television, published by online news outlets, and widely circulated on social media.

Since then, she has allegedly received abusive messages as well as death and gang-rape threats from various Facebook accounts and WhatsApp numbers.

In the GD, Dr Sayma said she and her family are living in extreme fear and insecurity and are worried about possible attacks.

On Wednesday, madrasa teacher Amanullah Mahmudi Sagar, the accused in a case over raping and impregnating the 11-year-old, was sent to jail following his arrest.

According to the first information report (FIR), on October 2 last year, after classes ended in the afternoon, Sagar told the child to sweep the mosque adjacent to the madrasa. By that time, other teachers and students had already left for home. After the child finished sweeping, he told her to clean his room. When she entered the room, he raped her.

The FIR further said that when the child cried out, he threatened to beat her and expel her from the madrasa.

The child was allegedly raped on four or five more occasions in a room adjacent to the mosque’s veranda and also in classrooms, the FIR read.