Muslim man poses as Hindu to trap Hindu girl, marries her in temple, forces her at gunpoint to convert to Islam
Rewari, Haryana, India 
17 November, 2020
Case Summary
A Hindu girl studying in BA second year in the Dharuhera area of Rewari district in Haryana, said that Mausam Khan befriended her by concealing his religious identity and going by the name Prem (pretended to be Hindu). The accused started showering her with expensive gifts and also claimed a relative of his was employed at a high post and would get her a job. On November 18, 2020, he took her by bike to Haridwar where he sexually exploited her. The next day, he took her to a mandir where he married her as per Hindu customs. Mausam Khan’s father Tahir Khan, uncles - Tasavvar, Akbar and Suleiman, and Tahir Khan’s friend Babulal reached Haridwar and forcefully took her away in a car to their village Uton in the Nuh district of Haryana. There, they held her at gunpoint and forced her to convert to Islam and marry Mausam Khan. When she protested, she was assaulted and held captive in their house. Mausam Khan’s brother Salim raped her. The torture continued for three years until she managed to escape and return to her parents in Rewari on April 19, 2023.
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. The religious motive of the crime is evident from the fact that the Muslim perpetrator hid his true identity to trap the Hindu victim. He targeted the victim specifically owing to her religious identity and purposely married her as per Hindu rituals to deceive the Hindu girl. After that, he inflicted torture and forcefully changed her religious identity to Islam pointing towards a crime with his motivations being driven by religious hate.
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
Complaint registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 5 to 10
Perpetrators Gender
both
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