Hindu woman subjected to prolonged sexual exploitation, deception, and blackmail by Muslim man posing as Hindu
Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India 
27 March, 2025
Case Summary
In Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, a Hindu woman was subjected to prolonged sexual exploitation, deception, and blackmail by a Muslim man named Abdul Faraz Khan, who posed as a Hindu. According to reports, the accused, Abdul Faraz Khan, was a resident of the Old Bus Stand area in Jabalpur and built a relationship with the Hindu victim by pretending to be a Hindu man named Rahul. He gained her trust and built the relationship under the false pretext of marrying her, although the accused was already married. Over a period of more than a year, he took her to multiple locations within and outside the city, where he repeatedly sexually exploited her. During this time, he administered intoxicating substances and recorded explicit videos without her consent, which he used to blackmail and control her. The victim eventually discovered the accused's real identity, his marital status and that he was a Muslim, following which she attempted to end the relationship. However, the accused began issuing threats and warned her that he would release her intimate videos and continued to blackmail her. He also extorted approximately ₹1.5 lakh from her by blackmailing her. The sustained harassment, death threats, and fear of public humiliation caused severe psychological distress, driving the victim to the brink of suicide. Subsequently, she approached the Omti Police station and filed a complaint. Based on her complaint, an FIR was registered under relevant sections of law, and the accused was arrested by the police. Station in-charge Rajpal Singh Baghel confirmed that the accused was taken into custody and interrogation was underway. The investigation proceeded to examine the full extent of the offences, including the possibility of other victims and the broader pattern of deception, exploitation, and coercion employed by the accused.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary categories selected are- Name changed and Pattern of targeting Hindu women. 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 other sub-category selected is - Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary category here is - Rape and sexual assault/harassment. In our database, we have not added incidents where women have converted to another religion of their free will and no allegations of forced/involuntary conversion have been made. However, there are certain cases of conversion where the consent itself is a result of the brainwashing or grooming of a minor by the non-Hindu perpetrator trying to victimise a woman for her Hindu religious identity. The phenomenon of grooming points to non-Hindu perpetrators identifying their Hindu victims’ vulnerabilities and exploiting them over months and sometimes years, to extract the supposed ‘consent’ in order to convert their religion. In most cases of grooming, the victims are minors or the grooming started when the victim was a minor. In other cases of grooming, the non-Hindu perpetrator brainwashes and grooms a minor victim to extract their trust and then proceeds to rape them repeatedly with the intent of converting them to their faith. It is pertinent to understand here that when the victim is a minor, the ‘consent’ to convert or enter into a romantic relationship with an adult itself is redundant – addressed by POCSO. While every case of conversion of a minor and incidents of establishing a physical relationship with a minor by an adult is a crime, for the purpose of this database, a case would be considered a hate crime only if there is a distinct religious angle to the grooming. For example, in the UK, if a Hindu minor is targeted by Pakistani grooming gangs, it would be considered a hate crime because the victims are specifically targeted owing to their non-Muslim religious identity with the perpetrators being Muslim. In other cases, if a Hindu minor is brainwashed into entering a physical relationship with the non-Hindu adult perpetrator and the family alleges grooming/brainwashing of the minor to convert her religion, it would form a part of this database. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered a hate crime. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu woman was subjected to prolonged sexual exploitation, deception, and blackmail by the Muslim accused, Abdul Faraz Khan, who posed as a Hindu. Firstly, 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. Secondly, the case also involved sustained coercion and blackmail, which significantly aggravated the gravity of the offence. After establishing the relationship through a fabricated Hindu identity, the accused recorded explicit videos of the victim, creating a mechanism for prolonged control. These recordings were subsequently used to threaten her with public exposure, enabling continued sexual exploitation, intimidation, and financial extortion. This was not a random act of sexual exploitation; it was a targeted assault driven by religious bias, aimed at singling out and violating a Hindu girl because of her religious identity. Such acts of exploitation by manipulation, deception and religious profiling clearly underline the religiously motivated nature of this crime. The act of assuming a Hindu identity to access, manipulate, and ultimately violate a girl reflects a deeper disregard for Hindu religious identity and social norms, and cannot be reduced to a mere instance of personal misconduct. 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 girls are specifically targeted and lured under deliberate identity deception for nefarious purposes, 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 this case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that the accused exploited her for over a year. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 28 March 2025, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 28 March 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.
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
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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