THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The police have decided to record the statements of the victim in connection with the POCSO case charged against an imam in Thiruvananthapuram. The statement will be recorded by child welfare committee. They had subjected the girl to a medical evaluation. The statement is being recorded in this situation. Meantime, a look out notice has been issued as the imam had gone underground. Shafeeq Al Qasimi, who was serving as the Imam of a rural mosque at Tholicode in Vithura, over 30 km away from here, was removed after the incident came to light, police said.According to the statement, he had lured a 15-year-old girl to an isolated forest area in Vithura and allegedly sexually assaulted her last week.The incident came to light after a group of local women confronted the cleric after seeing him with the school-going girl in the forest."An FIR was registered as per the statement of the mosque committee," a police official said, adding that the victim or her family was yet to file a formal complaint.Qasimi was removed as Imam of the mosque after the issue surfaced, police added.