Multiple minor Hindu female students selectively targeted and sexually assaulted by Muslim tutor in Delhi

Case ID : 30a9135 | Location : North West Delhi, Delhi, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 31 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a9135

North West Delhi, Delhi, India

31 May, 2026

Multiple minor Hindu female students selectively targeted and sexually assaulted by Muslim tutor in Delhi

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Ashok Vihar, Delhi, more than 20 minor Hindu female students were selectively targeted and sexually assaulted by their Muslim tutor, Mohammed Imran. The accused was arrested by the Ashok Vihar police. The arrest came after multiple minor female students came forward with details of sexual harassment. The police investigation revealed a pattern of behaviour that went unnoticed for months, coming to light only after a Class 12 student broke her silence. The matter first reached the police on 1 June 2026, when a Class 12 student returned home from the tuition centre and narrated her ordeal to her parents. According to her statement recorded in the First Information Report, the tutor, 35-year-old Mohammed Imran, called the student to his centre under the pretext of clearing academic doubts. Once alone, he groped her. Following the family’s complaint, the Ashok Vihar police registered the first case and initiated an investigation. The initial arrest acted as a catalyst for the local Hindu community. In the days following the incident, residents organised a meeting to discuss the situation and support the affected family. During this gathering, a deeper, more systemic issue surfaced. Several other Hindu girls from the neighbourhood revealed that they faced similar inappropriate behaviour from Imran. A common thread emerged among many families: their daughters enrolled at Imran’s centre, only to abruptly quit after a single week or a month, and in at least two cases, within a day. At the time, the girls told their parents they were leaving simply because they didn’t understand his teaching methods. As more children spoke out, additional formal complaints were lodged. On 9 June 2026, a week after the first case, the Ashok Vihar police registered two more separate cases. In these subsequent filings, two more survivors recorded their formal statements with the police, detailing how Imran touched them inappropriately during regular class sessions. The investigating police officer revealed that all the survivors who came forward to file formal First Information Reports belonged to the Hindu community. Local residents revealed that the three official First Information Reports represented only a fraction of the actual number of victims. A resident said that during the community meeting, several parents chose not to file official police complaints, citing a desire to avoid legal complications and protect their children from public scrutiny. Residents said that if every student who faced harassment had filed a First Information Report, the total number of cases would easily cross 20. One of the three complainants spoke, recalling her ordeal and said: “I live right opposite his coaching centre. Maybe that’s why he spared me all this time. I never interacted with any other student, so I didn’t know about others. He groped me after I told him I was going to quit the centre as my last exam of Class 12 was due.” Local parents added that Imran miscalculated the community’s response. Neighbours noted that he did not expect the Hindu families in the area to unite and identify a collective pattern. “At most, he was thinking he would be asked to leave the area,” a resident remarked, noting that the tutor expected a quiet eviction rather than an arrest and a prison sentence. The physical presence of the coaching centre was entirely dismantled. The ground floor of the building where Imran operated, which belongs to a Hindu landlord, was vacated. Neighbours took down the commercial board of the coaching centre, which sat discarded outside on the street. In response to the development, Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation took the matter to the National Human Rights Commission to demand a deeper, more comprehensive scrutiny of the cases, while simultaneously organising counselling sessions for the traumatised minor victims. Imran was arrested and remained in judicial custody as the Ashok Vihar police continued their investigation.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is: Attack not 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. This case represents a clear example of a religiously motivated hate crime, as a Muslim man selectively targeted and sexually assaulted multiple minor Hindu girls. The fact that every single survivor who came forward from among his students belongs to the Hindu community showcases that this was not a random, isolated incident. Instead, it demonstrates a distinct, systemic pattern of profiling and selecting Hindu children for sexual assault and harassment. Even in the absence of an explicit admission of religious intent by the perpetrator, the demographic uniformity of the victims indicates that they were systematically profiled and selected based on their religious identity before being subjected to assault, fulfilling the core criteria of a religiously driven hate crime. When religious identity becomes the primary factor behind an assault, the act transcends ordinary criminal boundaries and functions as a hate crime. In such instances, the perpetrator views the victims not merely as individuals, but as representatives of the Hindu community. Targeting individuals for sexual violence specifically because they are Hindu constitutes an act of identity-based sexual aggression, where the vulnerability of the victims is directly linked to their religious identity, making this a religiously driven hate crime. Such acts of sexual violence are committed not solely for sexual gratification, but as a deliberate mechanism to humiliate, intimidate, and dominate the Hindu community. By targeting and assaulting the most vulnerable segment of the population, minor children, the perpetrator inflicted collective trauma on the wider Hindu community. This methodology aims to assert power and reinforce religious animosity through sexual violence, making the offences clear cases of religiously driven hostility. Because the documented pattern of targeting, profiling, and selective assault meets the established parameters of identity-based violence, this case is officially being recorded in the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker to document and monitor systemic trends of religiously motivated targeting. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the underlying crime occurred rather than when it was first reported in the media. In this case, media reports did not specify the exact date on which the sexual assaults first occurred. The only date mentioned in the reports is 1 June 2026, when one of the victims disclosed her ordeal, bringing the wider scandal to public attention. Accordingly, 1 June 2026 has been recorded as the indicative incident date. This date has been assigned solely for documentation and archival purposes in the absence of a confirmed date for the commencement of the offences. Additionally, although reports indicate that multiple Hindu victims were targeted in this case, only 20 victims were specifically identified or quantified in the available sources. Accordingly, for documentation purposes, a conservative victim count of 20 has been recorded. This figure may be revised if further verified information regarding the total number of victims becomes available.