Hindu woman befriended, repeatedly raped, blackmailed, and forced to convert to Islam by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu

Case ID : 30a7bd6 | Location : Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Fri, 10 April, 2026

Case ID : 30a7bd6

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

10 April, 2026

Hindu woman befriended, repeatedly raped, blackmailed, and forced to convert to Islam by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Forced conversion before marriage

Case Summary

In Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman from Delhi was raped, drugged, and blackmailed by a Muslim man who concealed his identity behind a false Hindu name, Himanshu. The accused filmed the assault without her consent, and then used the footage to coerce her into a sustained period of sexual abuse before pressuring her to convert to Islam when she proposed marriage. The Hindu victim later discovered that the accused was already married. The perpetrator was introduced to the Hindu woman through a mutual acquaintance, a woman from the Muslim community. He presented himself as Himanshu, concealing his Muslim identity and his married status throughout the period of their friendship. The two met regularly, and the relationship developed over time on the basis of this false identity. On one occasion, the perpetrator lured the woman to a hotel in Krishna Vihar Colony, Loni Border police station area, Ghaziabad, under the pretext of introducing her to his sister. At the hotel, he mixed intoxicating substances into cold drinks and served them to her. While she was incapacitated, he raped her and filmed the assault without her knowledge or consent. When she regained consciousness, he threatened her explicitly, warning that he would circulate the video on social media if she reported the assault to anyone. Using this blackmail, he continued to compel her into sexual relations over an extended period, maintaining his false Hindu identity throughout. Following this, he once again called her to a hotel in Indrapuri Colony. There, she proposed marriage to him. It was at this point that she discovered he was from the Muslim community and was already married to another woman. He responded to her discovery not with honesty or remorse but by pressuring her to convert to Islam for marriage. Distressed by this, the victim filed a police complaint against the Muslim accused. Assistant Commissioner of Police Ankur Vihar Gyan Prakash Rai stated that the matter had not yet come to formal police cognisance and that an investigation and action would be taken immediately upon it doing so.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category for this case is "Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes". The primary category for this case "Man pretends to be Hindu". The tertiary category for this case 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. Another sub-category for this case 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. One other subcategory for this case is "Forced conversion before marriage". In such cases, a non-Hindu man is in a relationship with a Hindu woman when the pressure to convert her religion begins to manifest. In such cases, typically, two patterns emerge. First, when the relationship is consensual, and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu woman in the relationship, however, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts to force the victim to convert her religion and give up her Hindu religious identity. The second is when the woman gets into a marriage with the man pretending to share her faith. Later, when the truth is revealed, the man starts pressuring the woman to convert her religion and give up her religious identity. In both the situations, the methods used to force the victim to convert her religion often revolve around force-feeding beef, forcing her to wear hijab, forcing her to read the Kalma or even pressurizing the victim to do ‘Nikah’, which is marriage under Islamic law, with a prerequisite being conversion to Islam. Cases where a Hindu woman consensually converts to Islam in a relationship will be left out of the hate crime database, even though it could be argued in several cases that the conversion was a result of religious brainwashing. In this case, the Hindu woman was deceived into a friendship and relationship by a Muslim man pretending to be Hindu under the false name Himanshu. After this, she was raped, drugged, blackmailed repeatedly, and then pressured to convert to Islam when she proposed marriage. Firstly, the perpetrator's act of deception by posing as a Hindu demonstrated a clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By hiding his true Muslim identity and married status, he manipulated the Hindu woman's trust and targeted her under false pretences, indicating a premeditated effort to exploit her based on her religious background. He was introduced through a mutual acquaintance from the Muslim community, yet sustained the lie through regular meetings, building a relationship solely on this fabricated Hindu persona. This constituted a direct violation of the victim's right to informed consent in personal relations, as well as an infringement upon her religious boundaries. Thus, the perpetrator's deliberate decision to hide his religious identity strongly underscored the religious motive behind this crime. In such instances, identity concealment was not just a deceptive tactic for personal gain but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The accused knew the victim, being Hindu, would likely refuse his advances if she knew his real identity, and he circumvented this by lying, which directly pointed to a religiously driven intent. This deception reflected a larger pattern where Hindu women are specifically singled out using false identities by Muslim men, often with sexual exploitation, blackmail or conversion in mind. Such targeted victimisation based on religion not only demonstrated a fundamental disregard for Hinduism but also exposed a deeper animosity toward Hindus and their beliefs. Secondly, through deliberate deception, the Hindu woman was drugged and raped by the Muslim perpetrator under the false pretext of friendship and romance. 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 woman because of her religious identity. He lured her to a hotel in Krishna Vihar Colony, Ghaziabad, under the pretext of meeting his sister, then spiked her drinks with intoxicating substances, raped her while incapacitated, and filmed it without consent. He followed this with repeated blackmail, threatening to share the video on social media unless she submitted to ongoing sexual abuse, all while maintaining his fake Hindu identity. The sexual exploitation served the specific purpose of breaking the victim's spirit, rendering her emotionally shattered, isolated, and more vulnerable to sustained coercion and eventual religious conversion. By systematically destroying her resistance through repeated rape and blackmail, the perpetrator ensured she became susceptible to his ultimate goal of erasing her Hindu identity. Hence, the sexual violence was religiously motivated, deliberately aimed at demolishing the Hindu woman's spirit, dignity, and faith to facilitate her subjugation and conversion, making this a clear hate crime. Thirdly, after the woman discovered the perpetrator's true Muslim identity and existing marriage during a hotel meeting in Indrapuri Colony, where she proposed marriage, he coerced her into converting to Islam to proceed with him. This demonstrated that his deception, rape, and blackmail were carried out with the calculated intention of achieving his underlying objective of religious conversion. When confronted with her marriage proposal, he did not offer remorse or truth but instead weaponised her vulnerability by demanding she renounce Hinduism entirely, revealing his endgame of religious conquest from the outset. Such actions violated the woman's fundamental right to practise her own faith and were a deliberate attempt to strip her of her Hindu identity through sustained coercion, treating her lifelong spiritual beliefs as expendable and inferior. By prioritising her forced assimilation into Islam over any genuine partnership, he asserted Islamic supremacy over her religion, aiming to humiliate her personally and degrade Hinduism collectively through her subjugation. This reflected deep-seated religious hostility and disdain towards Hindus and Hinduism, as the perpetrator viewed her faith not as equal but as an obstacle to be eradicated by force, making this a clear case of a religiously motivated hate crime. Given that this case met the parameters of a religiously motivated hate crime, it was added to the hate crime database of the tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred rather than when it was reported or published. This case involves a sustained course of conduct spanning an extended period. The initial drugging and rape took place at a hotel in Krishna Vihar Colony at an unspecified date prior to publication, with the sustained blackmail and sexual abuse continuing over the following period. The conversion pressure was applied when the victim proposed marriage, shortly before the complaint was made. As the exact dates of individual incidents are not specified in the source, the media publication date of 11 April 2026 has been used as the indicative incident date. This was recorded for documentation purposes only. In this case, the perpetrator count has been selected as two. Although the Muslim man was the main accused, the Muslim woman also assisted him in trapping the Hindu victim through a facade of friendship and a relationship. Therefore, the perpetrators are both the Muslim man and the Muslim woman. This is presented for documentary or illustrative purposes only.