UK ex-politician & India critic Lord Nazir Ahmed found guilty of child sex offences
New Delhi A Pakistani- origin former British politician, Lord Nazir Ahmed, who has frequently been critical of the programs of the Indian government, has been condemned of sexually assaulting two minors in the UK in the 1970s, the BBC reported Thursday. Ahmed was himself a teenager at the time.
Following the conviction, there have been calls for the 64- time-old Ahmed to be stripped of his title Ahmed, the first Muslim appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer, was on trial at the Sheffield Crown Court and plant guilt of repeated sexual assault of a boy and the tried rape of a youthful girl in the early 1970s, while he was a teenager living in Rotherham, a city in England’s South Yorkshire.
He’s to appear at the same court for sentencing on 4 February During the trial, it was revealed that the manly victim was 11 times old at the time, while the defendant was 16 or 17 times of age. The womanish victim was reportedly important youngish Ahmed had denied the allegations, but, a phone recording between the two victims in 2016 showed their claims weren’t “ cooked”.
Ahmed, who had been born in Pakistan- enthralled Kashmir, has preliminarily criticised the scrapping of special status for Jammu and Kashmir as an “ occupation force” for “ demographic changes to settle BJP/ RSS crazies”.
He has in the history been condemned by both Congress and BJP leaders for his tweet on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Former sexual assault allegations against Ahmed In November 2020, the former politician abnegated from the House of Lords.
A House of Lords conduct commission report had concluded that Ahmed had sexually and emotionally exploited a vulnerable woman who sought his help. While the commission had recommended his expatriation, Ahmed abnegated before the recommendation could be enforced.
The commission’s report made Ahmed the first member of the House of Lords, to be recommended for expatriation It has been reported that in 2017, a woman named Tahira Zaman approached Ahmed, for the disquisition of a Muslim healer, who she allowed was a peril to women. Zaman told BBC that the two ended up having a consensual sexual relationship but claimed, “ I was looking for help and he took advantage of me. He abused his power In another case, a woman who didn’t want to be linked told the BBC Newsnight that when she communicated Ahmed for help, he allegedly made a proposition for coitus, which she refused.
