Muslim youth pretends to be Hindu, threatens to throw acid on married woman for refusing advances
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India 
27 March, 2024
Case Summary
On April 9, 2024, a Muslim youth named Rahman threatened a married woman to hurl acid in her face for not befriending him in the Dalanwala police station area of Uttarakhand’s Dehradun. On March 28, the married woman had received a message from an unknown number on WhatsApp. When asked about the identity of the sender, the person introduced himself as Aman, the proprietor of a restaurant in Dubai. He told her that he had just come from Dubai to Dehradun and started forcing her to become friends with him, however, she turned him down. He then threatened to kill himself by cutting his veins. She eventually revealed the entire story to her husband. The couple then planned to get the perpetrator apprehended by the authorities. The woman told him that she was ready to meet him, and the man sent her a location. The woman arrived at the place and her spouse kept an eye on things. Aman arrived there on his motorbike after some time and revealed that his real name was Rahman. He proposed to go somewhere else to talk and asked her to accompany him. When the woman refused, angry Rahman held her hand and tried to forcibly make her sit on his motorcycle. When she continued to resist, he took a small vial from his pocket and threatened to toss acid in her face. When her husband came to help, the culprit threatened to kill both of them. The police reached the scene, nabbed the accused and filed an FIR.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by malafide intentions. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc), or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. In this case, a non-Hindu man concealed his religious identity and pretended to be a Hindu to lure a Hindu woman. Since the religious motive of the crime is evident from the fact that the man pretended to be a Hindu to trap a Hindu woman, this case has been documented as a hate crime.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 1
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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