Muslim youth poses as Hindu to trap a minor Hindu girl, girl commits suicide after learning about his real identity

Case ID : 0b67233 | Location : Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Wed, 31 January, 2024

Case ID : 0b67233

Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India

31 January, 2024

Muslim youth poses as Hindu to trap a minor Hindu girl, girl commits suicide after learning about his real identity

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Attack resulting in death

Case Summary

In a case from Raebareli district of Uttar Pradesh, a minor Hindu girl was trapped in a 'relationship' by a man named Tauheed, who used a false Hindu name Janu Mishra to trap her. When the victim discovered Tauheed was a Muslim man, she committed suicide. The victim's father stated that Tauheed had approached his daughter on her way to school and used a false Hindu name to trap her. After learning about Tauheed's real identity, the victim committed suicide on February 1st, 2024. The victim's father later reported the incident to Tauheed, his brother Tasleem alias Chhotu, and their father Lallan, who abused him and threatened to kill him. The police station took Panchayat Nama proceedings after the incident. The victim's father then filed a complaint and requested the police to register the case and take punitive action.

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, the Muslim perpetrator hid his religious identity to trap the Hindu woman. This is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion, hence this case has been classified as a religious hate crime. This case is also being documented under 'attack resulting in death'. While there was no 'attack' against the woman per se, it was a religiously motivated hate crime (changing of religious identity to trap woman) which resulted in the death of the woman victim. Since the case has the elements of a religiously motivated hate crime, it is being documented as a hate crime in the database.