New Delhi: A school principal in Pakistan’s Peshawar was awarded a total of 105 years in prison for perpetrating heinous crimes against young students both male and female. The man named Attaullah Marwat was sentenced by a session’s court in Peshawar on Tuesday on charges of child abuse, pornography, rape, blackmail and also maintaining illicit relations. He was also fined Rs1.4 million in addition to the jail terms, The Dawn reported.

The accused is a private school’s owner and was arrested after the Hayatabad police station registered a case against him on July 14, 2017 on the complaint of a boy student, who had accused him of sexually exploiting schoolchildren, including girls, and filming them with secret cameras installed on campus, the daily reported.

As per the report, a trial court had framed charges against him on eight counts under the Pakistan Penal Code, including the charges for stripping a woman of her clothes, sexual abuse of child, adultery, sexual harassment, child pornography, rape, seducing a child, sexual abuse and counterfeit currency. He was found guilty of all charges and handed various jail sentences under each section- resulting in a total prison term of 105 years.

The accused who had recorded his confession after his arrest last year before a judicial magistrate in July last year had admitted that he used to bring women from outside to school for the purpose of adultery and said it was his hobby to make videos of his sexual activities.