Ayub confesses to raping 17-yr-girl

HYDERABAD: Parkwood International School director Mohammed Salauddin Ayub has reportedly confessed to police that he had raped the 17-year-old girl on several occasions and also made a vain bid to rape a foreign student.

According to sources, Salauddin Ayub confessed that he used to stay on the third floor of Princes Court Block, where girls used to stay on the school campus.

Every day he used to call girl students from the first floor to the penthouse and urged them to stay even during late hours, sources said, quoting the confession statement drafted on a laptop on Thursday last. In March, the girl went to his room at 9.30 pm to clear some doubts. At that time, he hatched a plan and mixed a sedative in her cool drink and gave it to the girl, who after drinking it fell unconscious. He then raped the girl and also threatened her with his licensed 0.32 pistol that if she reveals to anybody he would kill her, the sources said.

Salauddin Ayub confessed that he took the girl to two hospitals. He first took her to a corporate hospital in Banjara Hills on May 5 suspecting pregnancy. He stood outside the hospital and sent the girl inside by giving her the required money. After that, he took the girl to a private nursing home at Lower Tank Bund for subsequent treatment. A lady doctor at the hospital gave her some pills for abortion.

Sources said he also confessed that he had the habit of taking photographs and videos of girl students at various times and used to see them during night. He also stated in the confession that he used to take the girls outside the school premises without noting in the security register.

"On July 1, some girl students came to my room to see a movie on TV. The foreign student slept in my room while watching TV. I asked the other students to leave the girl in my room. When all the girls went away I touched her ...and tried to remove her clothes...But she resisted and cried loudly. Then I changed my mind and threatened the girl not to reveal this to anybody," Ayub admitted in the confession.

In a related development, the state government has recommended to the CBSE to cancel recognition of the school.