Hindu woman lured into marriage and later murdered by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Hyderabad, Telangana

Case ID : 30a8fe8 | Location : Hyderabad, Telangana, India | Date of Incident : Thu, 5 December, 2024

Case ID : 30a8fe8

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

5 December, 2024

Hindu woman lured into marriage and later murdered by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Hyderabad, Telangana

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Attack resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Hyderabad, Telangana, a Hindu woman was lured into a relationship and subsequently married by a Muslim man who concealed his identity by presenting himself as a Hindu. The victim's family stated that following the marriage, he subjected her to brutal physical abuse, ultimately murdered her, and buried her body in a cemetery. According to the deceased victim's father, Tirath Saket, a resident of Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, his 20-year-old daughter, Goldie Saket, met a man identifying himself as Prince through Instagram around one and a half years earlier (December 2024). At the time, she was working at a private company in Hyderabad. The man presented himself as a Hindu and gradually developed an online friendship with her. Their interactions eventually blossomed into a romantic relationship. About six months later (June 2025), the two married in Hyderabad. The victim's sister, Seetu, stated that the family later discovered that the man had concealed his real identity and that his actual name was Sahil Khan. Following the marriage, Goldie moved to his residence in Jari Bazaar, Prayagraj, on 25 March 2026. According to the family, once she began living with him, her communication with them steadily diminished. The family further stated that Goldie was subjected to severe physical torture after the marriage. On 6 June 2026, they received information from one of her acquaintances that she had died and that her body had already been buried in a cemetery. Shocked by the news, the family immediately travelled from Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh to Kaundhiara in Prayagraj and approached the police. They stated that Sahil Khan had concealed his identity, married Goldie through deception, murdered her, and buried her body. Taking cognisance of the complaint, the police exhumed Goldie's body from the cemetery in the presence of administrative officials and sent it for post-mortem examination. The accused was taken into custody for questioning, while the police stated that they were investigating all aspects of the case and were awaiting the post-mortem report.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The first 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. The tertiary category selected 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. The second primary category selected is: Attack resulting in death. The subcategory selected is: Attacked for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime. Under this category, cases where the attack led to the death of the Hindu victim/s would be documented. In this case, a Hindu woman was lured into a relationship and subsequently married by a Muslim man who concealed his identity by presenting himself as a Hindu. According to her family, following the marriage, she was subjected to brutal physical abuse, ultimately murdered, and her body was buried in a cemetery. Although the victim was an adult, her death prevents her from recounting the circumstances that led to her ordeal. In such a situation, the statements of her immediate family, who have detailed the sequence of events, the accused's concealment of his identity, the abuse she endured after the marriage, and the circumstances surrounding her death and burial, assume considerable evidentiary significance and serve as the primary account of what transpired. Firstly, the perpetrator's act of concealing his religious identity by posing as a Hindu demonstrates a clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By hiding his true identity, he manipulated the Hindu woman's trust and specifically targeted her under false pretences, indicating a premeditated effort to exploit her on the basis of her religious background. Furthermore, the marriage legitimised the relationship in the eyes of the victim, her family, and the wider Hindu community, depriving her of the opportunity to make an informed decision about whom she wished to marry and violating her religious autonomy. The deliberate concealment of his identity therefore strongly underscores the religious dimension of the crime. In such cases, identity concealment is not merely a form of personal deception but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The accused was aware that the victim, being Hindu, might not have entered into the relationship or marriage had she known his true identity, and he circumvented this by falsely presenting himself as a Hindu, pointing to a religiously motivated intent. Such deception reflects a broader pattern in which Hindu women are singled out through false identities by Muslim men, enabling perpetrators to gain their trust and establish intimate relationships that would otherwise be unlikely to occur. This form of targeted victimisation, based on the victim's religious identity, demonstrates a disregard for her faith, her autonomy, and her right to make informed personal choices. It transforms the deception from an individual act of dishonesty into one that specifically exploits the victim's Hindu identity, thereby reflecting hostility towards her religious beliefs and community. Furthermore, the severe physical torture and ultimate killing of the Hindu woman demonstrate the depth of hostility that accompanies religiously targeted victimisation. Once a Hindu woman is specifically targeted through deception because of her religious identity, the subsequent violence cannot be viewed as an isolated or unrelated act. Instead, the physical abuse, torture, and eventual killing form a continuous sequence of conduct in which the initial religious targeting escalates into extreme violence, reinforcing the hate-driven character of the offence. The torture and killing of a woman who was first targeted because she was Hindu amplify the religious animosity evident at the very outset of the incident. The violence inflicted upon her reflects hostility directed not merely at an individual but at her Hindu identity itself. The progression from religious deception to sustained abuse and ultimately to her death showcases the depth of hostility directed towards a Hindu woman and, by extension, towards the Hindu community. Viewed in its entirety, the sequence of religious targeting, physical torture, and killing makes the hate crime motivation behind the case unmistakably clear. Since this case meets the parameters of a hate-driven offence, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim's ordeal begins rather than when it is reported by the media. In this case, media reports were published on 16 June 2026. The victim was killed on 6 June 2026, while the victim's parents stated that she first met the accused and was drawn into the relationship around one and a half years earlier. Based on this timeline, the first instance of deception and targeting would have occurred around 6 December 2024. Accordingly, 6 December 2024 is being recorded as the indicative incident date, as it marks the beginning of the victim's ordeal according to the information presently available. This date is recorded for documentation purposes only.