40 Minor Girls Found Locked in Toilet at Madrassa During Inspection News24 –

The Bahraich district administration conducted an inspection of an unregistered madrassa and found forty girls aged between 9 and 14 locked inside a toilet.

According to PTI, Ashwani Kumar Pandey, SDM Payagpur, said they had been receiving complaints about the functioning of an illegal madrassa in the area. The madrassa was being run inside a three-storey building in Pahalwara village.

“On Wednesday, when we went to the building for an inspection, the madrassa operators initially tried to stop us from going upstairs. In the presence of police, we entered the premises and found the toilet on the terrace locked,” PTI quoted Pandey as saying.

The SDM said that the girls started coming out when the door was opened. He added that they were not in a condition to speak.

As per the District Minority Welfare Officer, the locals said that the madrassa had been running for the last three years without registration.

Girl dies after attack by wolf in Bahraich; fourth incident within 15 days

In a separate incident, a young girl was attacked by a wild animal, presumably a wolf. She was taken to the hospital but was declared dead. The locals of Baba Patav village in the Majhara Taukli area of Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich district are living in extreme fear and distress due to attacks on children by wild animals.

A total of four incidents have been reported in the Bahraich district within the past 15 days of sudden attacks by untamed animals.

Bahraich District Magistrate (DM) Akshay Tripathi told reporters that more than 20 forest department teams are engaged in resolving the issue, along with 21 teams from the Panchayat and Rural Development Departments.

“This is a village under the Kaiserganj tehsil, and this is the third fatality by an animal attack in this particular village. Currently, over 20 teams from the Forest Department are working with thermal drones and additional drones. We have also deployed 21 teams from the Panchayat and Rural Development Departments for this particular village. We have asked the villagers to keep their children in safe locations,” DM Tripathi said.