Hindu woman deceived and lured into relationship by Muslim man faking Hindu identity in Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Case ID : 30a900c | Location : Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 14 February, 2026

Case ID : 30a900c

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

14 February, 2026

Hindu woman deceived and lured into relationship by Muslim man faking Hindu identity in Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Case Summary

In Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was deceived and lured into a relationship by a Muslim man named Adnan, who pretended to be a Hindu. According to the police complaint, the Hindu woman, a resident of the Kasna area of Greater Noida who worked as a sanitation worker, came into contact with the accused, Adnan, through Instagram around four months, in February 2026, before the complaint was filed. Adnan created and operated a social media profile under the Hindu name “Shekhar” and used this false identity to initiate contact with the victim. As their conversations continued, the two developed a close relationship. Throughout this period, Adnan concealed both his real name and his religious identity from the victim. The woman later discovered that the individual she had known as Shekhar was in fact Adnan, a resident of the Sarsupur area of Meerut district. Upon learning his true identity, she objected to the deception. The relationship subsequently deteriorated, and the matter was reported to the police. During the investigation, police found that the two had first connected through Instagram and had remained in contact for several months. Adnan stated during questioning that he had gradually begun distancing himself from the woman after realising there was a considerable age difference between them, as the victim was around 35 years old while he was approximately 22 years old. Based on the complaint and the findings of the preliminary investigation, the Beta-2 Police registered an FIR against Adnan. The accused was arrested and sent to judicial custody. Police stated that further investigation into the matter remained underway and that additional action would be taken in accordance with the findings of the inquiry.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is added to the tracker under the primary category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu, with the tertiary category being - 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. In this case, a Hindu woman was deceived and lured into a relationship by a Muslim man named Adnan, who pretended to be a Hindu. After the victim discovered his true identity, she objected to the deception and the relationship subsequently deteriorated. First, the perpetrator’s act of deception by posing as a Hindu demonstrated clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim’s religion. By introducing himself as “Shekhar” and concealing his real identity as Adnan, the accused manipulated the Hindu woman’s trust and entered into a relationship with her under false pretences. This deception was not incidental but a deliberate attempt to target the victim while hiding his religious identity, thereby violating her right to make an informed decision regarding whom she chose to be in a relationship with. The accused’s calculated concealment of his identity strongly underscored the religious motive behind the crime. In such instances, identity concealment is not merely a personal deception but a calculated strategy rooted in religious targeting and profiling. The accused was aware that the victim, being Hindu, may not have consented to the relationship had she known his real identity from the outset. He therefore circumvented her ability to exercise informed choice by deliberately lying about his name and religious background. This demonstrated a premeditated effort to exploit the victim specifically on the basis of her religious identity. This case reflected a broader pattern in which Hindu women are specifically targeted through false identities by Muslim men. Such deliberate victimisation based on religion demonstrated a fundamental disregard for the religious beliefs and autonomy of Hindu women. The calculated concealment of identity made this a clear instance of a religiously motivated hate crime directed against a Hindu woman. This case is not an isolated incident of religiously motivated targeting of Hindu women by Muslim men posing as Hindus. The Hinduphobia Tracker documented over 1,140 cases between January 2023 and 18 May 2026 in which Hindu women were targeted in interfaith relationships by non-Hindu men, particularly Muslims. In these cases, the perpetrators subjected the victims to forced religious conversion, sexual exploitation, physical abuse, threats, blackmail, or sustained religious harassment after entering into a relationship or marriage with them. Significantly, in over 720 of these documented cases, the accused had concealed their religious identity and posed as Hindus in order to gain the trust of Hindu women and initiate relationships with them under false pretences. This recurring pattern of deception demonstrated a systematic form of religious targeting in which Hindu women were specifically profiled and exploited by concealing religious identity to bypass informed consent and familial or religious objections. Some examples of such cases include an incident in Bahadarabad, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, where a Hindu woman was blackmailed and raped by a Muslim man named Iqbal, who had posed as a Hindu in order to entrap her. In another case from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was deceived and sexually exploited by a Muslim man named Sufian, who had impersonated a Hindu man on social media to lure her into a relationship. Similarly, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman, who was the mother of a six-year-old child, was deceived, forcibly converted to Islam, and kept in captivity by a Muslim man named Ehsan Hussain. The accused had posed as a Hindu and trapped her in a fabricated romantic relationship before coercing her to abandon her faith, renaming her Khushboo Khatun, forcibly marrying her, and later relocating her to Chennai. Given that this case meets the parameters of a hate-driven offence, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that she came into contact with the accused in February 2026. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 15 February 2026, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 15 June 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.