Hindu girl lured into relationship, raped and harassed by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh

Case ID : 30a7c0d | Location : Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 5 April, 2025

Case ID : 30a7c0d

Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, India

5 April, 2025

Hindu girl lured into relationship, raped and harassed by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Case Summary

A Hindu girl was lured into a romantic love affair, raped, and harassed in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh, by a Muslim man. The accused was identified as Jamaluddin Qazi, who pretended to be Hindu and hid his Muslim identity. According to media reports, the accused, Jamaluddin, was a resident of Tikamgarh's Shekha Mohalla area and was also a member of the City Defence Committee. The victim and her family stated that he had been stalking and harassing their daughter for the past year, from 2025. Whenever the girl left the house, the accused made lewd comments and stalked her, causing her severe mental distress. Family members said they tried to reason with and warn the accused several times, but his behaviour remained unchanged. On Monday (6 April 2026), when he came to the district hospital campus, the victim's family members recognised him and were enraged, and beat him. Following the incident, the family members took the accused to the Kotwali police station and handed him over to the police. Later, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment. During police investigations, the victim came forward and filed another complaint against the accused youth at the police station. She stated that Jamaluddin had lured her into a relationship by faking his identity and posing as a Hindu man. She also stated that he had raped her and blackmailed her. Following this, the accused, Jamaluddin, escaped from the district hospital. Following this incident, Hindu organisations, led by Bundelkhand Peethadhishwar Mahant Sitaram Das, gathered at the Nazarbag courtyard on the night of 12 April 2026. They questioned the police action and called for unity against such crimes. Previously, Mahant Sitaram Das had also questioned the police's actions through social media and demanded the arrest of the accused, Jamaluddin. At Mahant's appeal, a large number of people gathered in the Nazarbagh courtyard and expressed their anger at the police's actions. During the meeting, Mahant received a call from the Kotwali Police Inspector, informing him that the accused was in their custody.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu. 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 subcategory selected is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary category selected 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. In this case, the Hindu girl was lured into a romantic love affair by a Muslim man, Jamaluddin Qazi, pretending to be Hindu. After this, she was raped, harassed, and blackmailed by the perpetrator. 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 identity, the Muslim man manipulated the Hindu girl's trust and targeted her under false pretences, indicating a premeditated effort to exploit the girl based on her religious background. This constituted a direct violation of her right to informed consent regarding whom she chose to engage with, as well as an infringement upon her religious beliefs. 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 reasons but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The accused was aware that 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 harassment or assault 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 girl was raped and sexually exploited by the Muslim perpetrator under the false pretext of a romantic relationship. 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 through manipulation and religious profiling clearly underlined the religiously motivated nature of this crime. The Muslim perpetrator stalked the Hindu girl for a year, making lewd comments whenever she left home, exploiting her vulnerability as a Hindu girl. This persistent targeting was not mere opportunism but a demonstration of religious zeal, as he singled her out precisely because her Hindu identity made her a symbolically potent victim for religious domination and degradation. By posing as Hindu to infiltrate her trust, he gained access for rape and then wielded blackmail to enforce ongoing submission, tactics calculated to shatter Hindu family honour, erode her faith-based dignity, and coerce her into silence through fear of communal shame. The blackmail intensified the religious motivation, mirroring patterns where Hindu women face religiously profiled sexual violence and threats to assert supremacy, humiliate the victim's faith, and perpetuate a cycle of subjugation against Hindus. This escalation through harassment and blackmail thus showcased the religiously driven intent of the crime even more starkly. Given that this case met several parameters of a religiously motivated crime, it is added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the victim's ordeal begins rather than when it is reported by the media. In this case, media reports did not state the exact date when the Hindu girl's ordeal began, only mentioning that the accused had harassed her for more than one year and continued until he was assaulted by her family members on 6 April 2026. Based on both these pieces of information, an indicative incident date of 6 April 2025 is therefore selected for documentation purposes only.