The accused Abdul Hamid Bahadur Ansari reportedly lured the 6-year-old girl inside his shop on the pretext of offering chocolates and allegedly raped her.
On Monday, the civil society members across the country, especially in Kerala, had expressed massive outrage against the Kerala government following the acquittal of all four accused in the 2017 rape and death case of two minor Dalit girls in Walayar in Palakkad district.
Yusuf, who used to be the cleric in the Madarsa in the victim's village, allegedly kidnapped the minor girl and raped her multiple times in a guestroom of a mosque in Hyderabad.