Mangaluru: The golden jubilee celebration programme of the Muslim Central Committee will be held on December 29 at the city hall, said Muhammad Masood, the committee's chairman.

Speaking at a private hotel in the city on Thursday, he said that District Khazi Twaka Ahmad Musliyar would inaugurate the program at 10: 30 am. "Udupi Khazi Haji Ibrahim Musliyar Bekal will be observing dua. State Wakf Board Administrator AB Ibrahim, Abdul Aziz Darimi, NK Mohammad Shafi Saadi would be delivering important speeches," he said.

Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate the concluding programme at 2:30 pm. DK District in-charge Minister UT Khader will release the memorial issue. Meanwhile, Wakf Minister Zamir Ahmed Khan will be distributing sewing machine to qualified women.

Office bearers of the committee Ibrahim Kodijal, Mumtaz Ali, Muhammad Basha Thangal, Haji Muhammad Haneef, CM Mustafa, Ahmad Bava Padil, Ahmed Bawa Bajal, D.M. Aslam, CM Hanif, B.S. Imtiaz, Muhammad Bappalige, MA. Ashraf and others were present.

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Bengaluru: The owner of a private residential school in Devanahalli, his wife and the principal of the school have been arrested under charge of rape of a 14-year-old girl who was studying in Class 8 in the school.

While 600 children study from Class 1 to 10 in the school, 150 of them are learned to be girls.

The rape victim and her parents reportedly filed a police complaint on Friday, accusing the school owner of sexually assaulting her. They also accused the owner’s wife and the principal of the school of failing to intervene.

The complainant has reportedly told the police that she was raped repeatedly for eight days. She added that when she approached the owner’s wife and the school principal to get their help, they allegedly brushed the matter aside, saying such incidents were common ‘in current days’. Both of them, however, told her not to divulge the matter to anyone, the girl is learned to have said in her complaint.

She reportedly has told her parents that the owner, who had been in a drunken state, told her to come to the warden’s office at night. He took her to a room and raped her, she added. Unable to bear the torture, she is learned to have informed her parents.

Based on their complaint, a rape case was registered against the school owner, and an abetment case against his wife and the school principal.

Police sources have said that information is being gathered from other students of the school if more such incidents have occurred in the school.