Hindu woman lured under pretext of marriage by Muslim man posing as Hindu; held captive, sexually assaulted and beaten along with her child for resisting conversion
Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India 
17 April, 2026
Case Summary
A Hindu woman was lured by a Muslim man to Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, with the promise of marriage and subjected to repeated sexual violence inside a hotel room. She was held captive and assaulted after being deceived about the perpetrator’s religious identity. When she tried to escape and refuse conversion, she was beaten in public along with her young child. The incident unfolded in the Gandhi Park area, where the Hindu woman had been taken under false pretences. What began as a promise of lifelong support quickly turned into prolonged confinement and abuse. The 35-year-old Hindu woman, a resident of Ghaziabad, had come into contact with a Muslim man named Adil, a resident of Jaiganj in Aligarh. He frequently travelled to Ghaziabad for work and initiated a relationship with her while posing as a Hindu. He assured her that he would marry her, promising to support her and her two-year-old child. Around 2nd April 2026, approximately fifteen days before the incident came to light, the Muslim man brought the Hindu woman and her two-year-old son to Aligarh. He arranged accommodation for them in a hotel near the Gandhi Park area. Once inside the hotel, he confined the Hindu woman to the room and began sexually assaulting her repeatedly. He continued to conceal his religious identity during this period while maintaining the false promise of marriage. During her confinement, the Hindu woman discovered that the perpetrator was a Muslim man and not a Hindu as he had claimed. When she protested against the deception, conversion, and abuse, he assaulted her physically. He beat her and her child inside the hotel room to suppress her resistance and maintain control over her. During this period, the Hindu woman was also subjected to further sexual violence by the hotel owner, who was acting in coordination with the Muslim perpetrator. Both men exploited her confinement and vulnerability inside the hotel room to commit repeated acts of rape. The Hindu woman was held against her will and was unable to leave the premises during this period of captivity. The Hindu woman stated that during her confinement, the Muslim perpetrator also took her mangalsutra and approximately three lakh rupees. These items were taken while she remained under his control inside the hotel. Her personal belongings and financial resources were removed as she was being subjected to continued abuse. On 16th April 2026, the situation escalated further when the Muslim perpetrator again began beating the Hindu woman inside the hotel room. During this altercation, she managed to escape from the room and reach the street outside the hotel. As she attempted to flee, he chased her and continued to assault her in public. He beat her on the road in full view of passersby. Her young child was also present during the assault and was beaten. Local people who witnessed the attack intervened and restrained the Muslim perpetrator. They beat him and prevented him from fleeing before informing the police. The Hindu woman and her child were found injured at the scene. Police officials arrived at the location and took the Muslim perpetrator into custody. The Hindu woman and her child were transported to the district hospital for medical treatment. She was reported to be unconscious and had sustained multiple injuries. Senior police officials, including the Superintendent of Police City and other officers, reached both the scene and the hospital to assess the situation. A search was conducted at the hotel in the Gandhi Park area. During this search, another individual was found in a room in objectionable circumstances and was taken into custody for questioning in connection with the incident. Public representatives, including a former mayor, reached the hospital and demanded strict action against the perpetrators. The police stated that action would also be taken against the hotel if it was found to be operating in violation of regulations. The investigation into the incident was ongoing.
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. Within this, the subcategory selected is - Man pretends to be Hindu. Under this, the tertiary category selected is - Raped and/or murdered after Hindu woman finds out real identity. 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. Under this, 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. Another sub-category selected 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. Another sub-category selected for this case is - Assault or threat upon refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. Another sub-category selected for this case is - Rape for refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces pressure/threats/violence to convert and change her religious identity by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressuring the Hindu woman to convert. In some of these cases, the association could be non-consensual as well or, the religious identity of the non-Muslim man could be previously unknown to the Hindu victim. As the case may be, in such cases, the non-Hindu man forces himself sexually on the Hindu woman when she refuses his advances and pressures to convert her religion. The rape of the woman is often seen as either a punishment for the woman refusing to convert. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. The other subcategory selected is- Torture of family to force woman to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman is forced to convert her religion. Several methods are used for such forced conversion. The non-Hindu man is often documented to issue threats and even employ violence. One of the ways used by such perpetrators is threatening and/or torturing the family members of the Hindu woman to pressure her to convert. The perpetrators in such cases issue threats to harm or torture the family of the woman. In some cases, there is also violence directed towards the family to force the Hindu woman to convert. Such crimes aim to blackmail the victim into changing her religion by inducing fear of harm to her family. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. This case qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime because a Muslim man deliberately targeted a Hindu woman by concealing his religious identity, deceiving her into a relationship, and then subjecting her to prolonged sexual violence and coercion. The Hindu woman was not randomly selected; she was specifically approached under false religious pretences to gain her trust. The violence escalated when she discovered his real identity and resisted. The sequence of deception, confinement, sexual assault, and physical violence demonstrated a pattern where religion was used as a calculated tool to harm a Hindu victim. The primary religious marker in this case was the Muslim perpetrator deliberately posing as a Hindu to initiate a relationship with the Hindu woman. He presented himself as someone from her religious community and promised to convert to Hinduism and marry her. This was religiously significant because marriage within Hindu identity carries deep social and cultural trust, especially for a widowed Hindu woman with a young child. By exploiting this, the Muslim perpetrator gained access to her personal life and secured her trust in a way that would not have been possible without this deception. He chose to conceal his religion because he understood that revealing his true identity would likely have led to refusal. This showed a deliberate and calculated decision to manipulate her Hindu identity as an entry point. This choice revealed clear intent to target her specifically as a Hindu woman and to use religious deception as the foundation for subsequent exploitation and harm. The second religious marker in this case was the continuation of sexual violence after the Hindu woman discovered the perpetrator’s true religious identity. Once she learned that he was a Muslim man and not a Hindu as he had claimed, she protested against both the deception and the abuse. This moment was religiously significant because her objection arose directly from the betrayal of religious identity and the violation of trust built on that false premise. In response, the Muslim perpetrator escalated the violence. He beat her and continued to rape her after she resisted. This escalation showed that the violence was not incidental but was reinforced when the Hindu woman asserted her religious boundary. He chose to intensify the abuse at the exact point where her Hindu identity became a point of resistance. This revealed a deliberate intent to punish her for rejecting him after learning his true identity and to overpower her, specifically as a Hindu woman who refused to accept the deception. The third religious marker in this case was the coercive pressure linked to conversion and marriage. The Muslim perpetrator initially promised that he would convert to Hinduism, which he used to secure her trust. Later, information emerging from the incident indicated that pressure was exerted on the Hindu woman in relation to conversion after she was brought to the hotel. This was religiously significant because marriage and conversion directly affect a Hindu woman’s identity, beliefs, and social standing. The Muslim perpetrator used the promise of conversion to gain entry and then reversed that position to exert pressure once she was isolated and under his control. He chose to shift from false reassurance to coercion only after securing physical control over her environment. This demonstrated a calculated use of religion as both bait and weapon. This choice revealed an intent to manipulate and ultimately override her Hindu identity by placing her in a position where refusal would result in violence. The fourth religious marker in this case was the physical assault inflicted upon the Hindu woman and her child when she resisted and attempted to escape. When she rejected the perpetrator after learning his identity and tried to leave, he beat her inside the hotel and then again in public on the street. This was religiously significant because the violence followed her clear refusal after discovering his true religious identity and rejecting the coercion tied to it. The assault was not random; it occurred at the precise moment she asserted her autonomy as a Hindu woman and attempted to break free. He chose to continue the violence in public, in full view of others, to reassert control and punish her resistance. This demonstrated that the harm was directly linked to her refusal to submit after the deception was exposed. This choice revealed a deliberate intent to use physical violence to silence and subdue a Hindu woman who resisted exploitation grounded in religious manipulation. The fifth religious marker in this case was the involvement of the hotel owner, who also raped the Hindu woman while she was being held captive. This was religiously significant because it showed that her vulnerability as a confined Hindu woman was exploited by more than one perpetrator within the same setting. The Muslim perpetrator enabled this environment by isolating her and stripping her of mobility and support. The hotel owner took advantage of this controlled environment to commit sexual violence against her. This was not an isolated act but part of a broader pattern of exploitation made possible by her captivity. The perpetrators chose to act within a space where she had no escape, no support, and no ability to assert her identity or safety. This revealed a deliberate intent to maximise harm by turning her confinement into a site of repeated abuse. The Hindu woman’s identity and isolation were both leveraged to sustain this violence, showing coordinated exploitation rather than incidental wrongdoing. The sixth religious marker in this case was the stripping of the Hindu woman’s personal and cultural symbols along with her financial resources. The Muslim perpetrator took her mangalsutra and approximately three lakh rupees while she was under his control. This was religiously significant because the mangalsutra holds deep cultural and religious meaning for a Hindu woman, symbolising marriage, dignity, and identity. He chose to remove this symbol while subjecting her to sexual violence, thereby attacking both her physical autonomy and her cultural identity. This act was not merely theft; it was a targeted removal of a symbol that carried emotional and religious value. He chose this item specifically because of what it represented in her life as a Hindu woman. This revealed a deliberate intent to strip her of both material security and cultural dignity, deepening the harm beyond physical violence. The seventh religious marker in this case was the sustained pattern of deception, confinement, sexual violence, and assault directed at a vulnerable Hindu widow with a young child. The Muslim perpetrator identified and targeted a Hindu woman who had recently lost her husband and was in a socially and emotionally vulnerable position. This was religiously significant because her vulnerability intersected with her identity as a Hindu woman navigating trust, remarriage, and social security. He chose to approach her under a false Hindu identity, isolate her from her support system, and then subject her to prolonged abuse. This sequence showed planning and intent rather than spontaneity. It revealed that the perpetrator deliberately selected a Hindu victim whose circumstances made her easier to manipulate through religious deception. The cumulative pattern of actions in this case showed that religion was not incidental but central to how the crime was executed. The Muslim perpetrator used religious identity to gain trust, reinforced control through deception, escalated violence when that deception was challenged, and exploited the Hindu woman’s identity at every stage of the abuse. Each act, from false representation to coercion, confinement, sexual violence, and public assault, was shaped by deliberate choices that weaponised religious identity to maximise harm. The targeting, method, and escalation all demonstrated intent to exploit and subdue a Hindu victim specifically because she was Hindu. 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 exact date of the initial contact between the Hindu victim and the perpetrator was not specified in the available sources. The tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, not when it was reported or published. In this case, 17th April 2026 has been used as the indicative incident date, as it is the publication date and the closest verifiable reference point. This date was recorded for documentation purposes only.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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