Bahraich: Forty girls aged between nine and 14 years were found confined inside a toilet of an unregistered madrassa here during an inspection, officials said on Thursday.

Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) of Payagpur Ashwini Kumar Pandey told PTI that the district administration received repeated complaints regarding the functioning of an illegal madrassa inside a three-storey building in Pahalwara village under Payagpur tehsil. Also Read | ‘Yoga should be encouraged in madrassas, oppose Surya Namaskar’: Muslim cleric

"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," he said.

When the door was opened by f

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