Hindu youth assaulted by Muslim miscreants over love affair with a Muslim girl
Karimnagar, Telangana, India 
13 May, 2024
Case Summary
In Karimnagar, Telangana, a Dalit youth was assaulted by Muslim miscreants over a love affair with a Muslim girl, reportedly directed by political leaders from MIM and BRS. The Dalit youth, from Warangal district, had been in a relationship with the Muslim girl from Godavarikhani town for two years. On May 14, the girl told her family she was visiting a relative but instead met the Dalit youth in Basant Nagar. A Muslim man named Sameer saw them and informed Rahim, a BRS leader, who then sent several Muslim youths to the Raykurti area. These youths terrorised the girl and took the Dalit youth to Abbas Shami, a former deputy mayor and husband of the city's 27th division corporator. The Dalit youth was assaulted and the girl was handed over to her parents. On a corporator's insistence, the MIM leader released the Dalit youth, who then filed a complaint at the Kottapelli Haveli Police Station. Police charged several individuals, including Sameer, Mohammed Asif, MIM 18th division president Yakub, Azim, Abbas Sami, and the girl’s parents, under an atrocity case. Yakub and Asif were arrested, while others are absconding.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
There have been several cases documented of Hindu men/boys being attacked specifically by Muslim groups/mobs for merely being associated or suspicion of being associated or being seen with a Muslim woman in public. In most of such cases, the Hindu man is not in a relationship with the Muslim woman, however, the mob proceeds to threaten and/or assault the Hindu man for merely being associated with the Muslim woman in any capacity. The rise of such crimes stems from a particularly sinister campaign run by several Muslim ideologues and activists. The campaign claims that Hindu men are attempting to ‘lure’ Muslim women into relationships to ensure that Muslim women leave their faith and follow Hinduism. The propaganda has been spearheaded with the help of WhatsApp groups and the extensive use of social media, sans evidence of the same. In many cases, pamphlets were fabricated to lend credence to this campaign. The root of this campaign lies in the fact that several cases of sectarian crimes against Hindu women in relationships with Muslim men have been documented. In such cases, Hindu women have often been forced/pressured to convert to Islam, assaulted, threatened and even murdered owing specifically to their religious identity and their refusal to give up that religious identity to adopt Islam. To delegitimize the suffering of Hindu women when such sectarian crimes are committed against them, the theory of ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’ was floated by sections of the Muslim community. As this theory gained traction, Muslim mobs started targeting Hindu men who were seen with Muslim women. In several such cases, the Hindu man was assaulted merely for offering to drop a Muslim woman in his vehicle or being friends. The differentiating factor between such cases and legitimate cases of Hindu women being targeted while in a relationship with Muslim men is that there is no sectarian violence, and force/pressure to convert. The nature of sectarian violence against Hindu women is not about two adults in a consensual relationship, working together, studying together, or even marrying each other where religious considerations are declared. In this category of crimes, it is pertinent to remember that in none of the cases, there is an element of the Hindu man masking his identity or forced religious conversion. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 0
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 1
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 0
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 5 to 10
Perpetrators Gender
both
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