Minor Hindu girl lured, taken towards Nepal in trafficking attempt by Muslim man posing as Hindu

Case ID : 30a7415 | Location : Mothihari, Bihar, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 7 December, 2025

Case ID : 30a7415

Mothihari, Bihar, India

7 December, 2025

Minor Hindu girl lured, taken towards Nepal in trafficking attempt by Muslim man posing as Hindu

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Case Summary

In Motihari district of Bihar, a minor Hindu girl was lured into a relationship and abducted by two Muslim men, using a fake Hindu identity. According to reports, the Muslim accused, Mohammad Arman from Parsa district in Nepal, had befriended the minor victim through TikTok around four months ago, in December 2025. The accused pretended to be a Hindu man named Golu to lure the minor victim. He gradually lured her and trapped her through a romantic relationship while promising marriage. Acting in coordination with his accomplice, Iqbal Ansari from Shikarpur in Narkatiaganj, he persuaded the victim to leave her home and meet them at the Motihari bus stand. From there, the two accused attempted to take her towards the Indo–Nepal border and smuggle her into Nepal. However, the anti-human trafficking unit (AHTU) of the 47th Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), working in coordination with civil society organisations, intercepted the traffickers while they were attempting to take the victim across the border into Nepal during the night. The rescue took place near the Maitri Pul post on the border, where SSB personnel guarding the border noticed two men accompanying a minor girl in suspicious circumstances and stopped them for questioning. During the initial interaction, the two men introduced the girl as their sister and claimed that they were travelling to Nepal to visit relatives. Their responses raised suspicion among the officers, prompting a more detailed verification. The SSB team, along with members of the Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre, Swachh Raxaul Sanstha and Gram Niyojan Kendra, conducted separate counselling sessions with the girl and the two men. During this process it emerged that the girl was a resident of the Patahi police station area of Motihari district and had been lured away from her home after being groomed online. After the truth emerged during questioning, the SSB detained both men at the border and rescued the minor girl. The accused, Mohammad Arman and Iqbal Ansari, were subsequently handed over to the Haraiya police station for legal action. Station House Officer Kishan Kumar Paswan confirmed that a case was registered, and the arrested trafficker was sent to judicial custody in Motihari while further legal proceedings were initiated. The rescued minor girl was produced before the court in accordance with due process.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Under this, the subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu, and the tertiary category selected is- Name changed. 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. This case illustrates a targeted crime in which a minor Hindu girl was lured into a relationship and subsequently abducted by two Muslim men who posed as Hindus in order to gain her trust. The victim was first groomed through an online relationship and gradually manipulated into leaving her home. The Hindu girl was lured into a relationship by a Muslim man, who pretended to be Hindu. The perpetrator deliberately concealed his religious identity to initiate and sustain a relationship with a Hindu girl. This itself is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By concealing his true identity, he exploited her trust, targeting her under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate her based on her religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to manipulate and "ensnare" a Hindu individual is not just an act of personal betrayal but can also be interpreted as an expression of disdain or disregard for Hinduism and its customs that reflects a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs The act of adopting a false Hindu identity to approach and groom a Hindu victim demonstrates a deliberate strategy aimed at bypassing social suspicion and lowering the victim’s guard. Such deception enabled the accused to develop a relationship that would likely not have been possible had his real identity been known. This tactic reflects a pattern in which perpetrators use false identities to manipulate victims and exploit trust, thereby deepening the gravity of the crime. Furthermore, the actions of the accused extended beyond deception in a relationship and moved into an attempted case of human trafficking. After luring the minor girl away from her home, the accused, along with his accomplice Iqbal Ansari, attempted to transport her towards the Indo–Nepal border with the intention of taking her into Nepal. The trafficking attempt, combined with the earlier deception involving a false religious identity, indicates that the crime was not merely opportunistic but formed part of a pattern in which the victim was specifically targeted and manipulated as a Hindu minor. In this context, the trafficking aspect of the incident can be interpreted as being rooted in religious animosity, as the perpetrators deliberately concealed their identity, exploited religious trust, and targeted a vulnerable Hindu victim in order to carry out the crime. This is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes targeting Hindu women. The Hinduphobia tracker has documented multiple cases where non-Hindu men pretended to be Hindu to befriend Hindu women for sexual exploitation or religious conversion. For example, in Bahadarabad, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, a Hindu woman was blackmailed and raped by a Muslim man named Iqbal, who had faked a Hindu identity to entrap her. In a similar case, from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was deceived and sexually exploited by a Muslim man named Sufian, who impersonated a Hindu man on social media to lure her. In another case in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman, mother of a six-year-old child, was deceived, forcibly converted to Islam, and kept in captivity. The perpetrator, Ehsan Hussain, pretended to be Hindu and trapped her in a fabricated love affair, coerced her into abandoning her faith, renamed her Khushboo Khatun, and forcibly married her before relocating her to Chennai. These incidents collectively highlight a pattern in which Hindu women are specifically targeted through deception for sexual exploitation and religious conversion, underscoring a systematic hostility towards Hindu individuals and their religious beliefs. Therefore, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that the accused lured her in December 2025. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 8 December 2025, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 8 March 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.