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KOTA BHARU: Kelantan police have held the director of a madrassa in Machang from today until December 26 after receiving two complaints of nuisance against the suspect, who is also a famous preacher in the state.
Kelantan Police Chief Shafien Mamat said the reports were filed at the Kuang Police Station in Selangor and the Bayan Lepas Police Station in Penang.
He said investigations found that both complainants were male former students of the madrassa. They claimed that they had been sexually abused by the director in separate incidents in 2018.
“The first victim said that (the alleged act) occurred in May 2018, around 1 am, at the suspect’s home,” he said today in a statement.
“Based on the statement of the second victim, the incident (against him) occurred in November 2018, around 11 p.m. in a bedroom at the Machang madrasah,” he said, adding that conduct investigations under Section 377D of the Code.
