Hindu woman groomed by Muslim man posing as Hindu, subjected to torture and conversion demands

Case ID : 30a88e7 | Location : New Delhi, Delhi, India | Date of Incident : Wed, 6 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a88e7

New Delhi, Delhi, India

6 May, 2026

Hindu woman groomed by Muslim man posing as Hindu, subjected to torture and conversion demands

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Forced conversion before marriage

Case Summary

A Hindu woman from Rajpat Nagar, Delhi, was trapped by a Muslim youth posing as a Hindu. She was then pressured to convert to Islam and subjected to sustained harassment and torture by the accused. As per details, Kaif Ansari had introduced himself as "Kunal" when the two first met, presenting a false Hindu identity to establish the relationship. After revealing his Muslim identity, he made clear that marriage was conditional on the woman's conversion to Islam. He subjected her to sustained torture, intimidation, and pressure to convert. He made her consume intoxicating substances and used this as an additional instrument of control. He extorted money from her over a period of time. When the woman finally sought justice at Nabi Karim police station, she spent two days there. Despite Kaif Ansari himself appearing at the police station, the IO Srishti Madam refused to arrest him, stating simply that they would not arrest him, and sent him away. Hindu Raksha Dal members Deepak and Pankaj Sindhu, the president, accompanied the woman to Nabi Karim police station to demand action and publicly shared the video to seek justice and put pressure on the administration. They stated that the entire Hindu Raksha Dal stood with the woman and demanded that Kaif Ansari be arrested and strict action taken against him as soon as possible.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category for this case is "Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes". The sub-category for this case is "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 would be "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 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 pressurising 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. The Muslim accused's operation against the Hindu woman began with a deliberate act of identity theft. He presented himself as a Hindu to establish the relationship. Not only that, he maintained the false Hindu identity long enough to build the level of trust required for the subsequent phase of the operation. The adoption of a Hindu name was not a casual alias. It was the operational foundation of the entire grooming process. Kaif Ansari understood that the woman would not have engaged with him had she known his true identity. The false name was the instrument through which her Hindu trust was obtained and weaponised against her. The religious character of this case is established at its very foundation. A Muslim man who conceals his religious identity to establish a relationship with a Hindu woman does not do so because he is ashamed of his faith. He does so because he knows that his Hindu target would reject him if she knew the truth. The false Hindu name is therefore not merely a deception about personal identity. It is a deliberate exploitation of the victim's Hindu religious identity as the specific vulnerability through which she can be accessed. The targeting was not incidental to her being Hindu. It was conditional upon it. Had she not been Hindu, the false Hindu name would have served no purpose. The moment Kaif Ansari revealed his true identity as a Muslim, he immediately conditioned marriage on the woman's conversion to Islam. This sequence is also a defining religious marker of this grooming methodology. The false Hindu identity was maintained until the relationship had produced sufficient psychological dependency, at which point the conversion demand was introduced as the price of its continuation. The woman was then told that the relationship she had invested in, built on the understanding that she was with a Hindu man, could only continue if she abandoned her Hindu faith. The conversion demand was not a request. It was a condition attached to the continuation of a relationship engineered from its inception to reach exactly this point. The instruments deployed to enforce the conversion demand reflect the degree of religious hostility underlying the operation. Kaif Ansari subjected the woman to sustained torture and intimidation. He made her consume intoxicating substances to weaken her psychological resistance. He extorted money from her to create financial dependency and obligation. Each of these instruments was deployed in direct service of the conversion objective, establishing that the physical violation, the substance administration, and the financial exploitation were not separate crimes but the enforcement mechanisms of a religiously motivated conversion operation. A man who tortures, drugs, and extorts a Hindu woman to force her conversion to Islam is not acting from personal grievance or romantic frustration. He is acting from religious hostility toward her Hindu identity and a determination to eliminate it. This case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker because every element of the conduct directed at the Hindu woman, from the false Hindu name to the grooming to the conversion ultimatum to the torture, drugging, and extortion, was rooted in and motivated by hostility toward her Hindu religious identity. She was targeted because she was Hindu. She was deceived through a false Hindu identity because her Hinduism made her inaccessible to a direct approach. She was tortured and drugged because her Hinduism made her resistant to the conversion demand. And she was denied justice because the institutional indifference of the police station extended greater protection to her Muslim perpetrator than to a Hindu woman whose faith had been the specific object of a sustained and organised campaign of religious coercion. Disclaimer: The exact date on which Kaif Ansari first established contact with the Hindu woman was not confirmed in the source. This case involved a sustained course of conduct prior to the complaint, beginning with the grooming operation under the false Hindu identity. The tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, not when it was reported or published. However, in this case, since the exact commencement of the conduct was not confirmed in any source, 7 May 2026, the publication date has been used as the indicative incident date as the earliest available reference point. This date has been recorded for documentation purposes only.