Muslim man pretends to be Hindu, spikes Hindu partner's drink and rapes her, forces to read the Kalma and blackmails
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India 
12 March, 2023
Case Summary
In this case from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a Muslim man Shadab pretended to be Hindu, naming himself Kabir, to get into a relationship with a Hindu woman. The victim, who hailed from Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh, reportedly came to Tilak Nagar in 2016 to pursue higher studies. She began staying with her brother there. In 2021, she visited a cafe in Tilak Nagar to meet her friend Saurabh who promised to get her a job. There, Saurabh’s girlfriend introduced the victim to the accused. To get closer to the girl, he pretended that he had cancer. One day, Shadab took the victim to a hotel in Ujjain on the pretext of celebrating her birthday. Shadab decorated the room and even invited his friend Bittu there. Shadab gifted the victim a ring and vowed to marry her. To celebrate their ‘alliance’, he then offered the victim a drink, which he had spiked. When the girl fell unconscious, he raped her and clicked objectionable pictures with her without her knowledge. After a few days, Shadab began blackmailing her with these photos. He began pressurising the girl to stay with him in his Bakhtawar Ram Nagar flat, where he forced her to establish physical relations with him. He pressurised her and took her to Bhopal, Mahabaleshwar, and Mandav, where he again raped her. The girl became pregnant twice, but both times Shadab got her abortion done. Shadab then started extorting the girl and her family and managed to take Rs 55 lakhs from them. After a few days, Shadab took the girl to the Ajmer dargah in Rajasthan where he forced her to read Kalma-Namaz.
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 pretended to be a Hindu to mislead the Hindu victim into a relationship. Thereafter, he raped her, blackmailed her and forced her to read the Kalma and do Namaz. This case has several elements of a religiously motivated hate crime against the woman including a forceful change of her religious identity.
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 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Unknown
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
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