Multiple minor Hindu girls religiously profiled, lured and sexually assaulted by Muslim man in Gaya; accused's phone reveals over 70 obscene videos

Case ID : 30a9394 | Location : Gaya, Bihar, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 21 June, 2026

Case ID : 30a9394

Gaya, Bihar, India

21 June, 2026

Multiple minor Hindu girls religiously profiled, lured and sexually assaulted by Muslim man in Gaya; accused's phone reveals over 70 obscene videos

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Pattern of targeting Hindu minors

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In Gaya, Bihar, multiple minor Hindu girls belonging to the Dalit community were religiously profiled, lured into relationships, sexually assaulted, and secretly filmed in obscene videos by a Muslim man. The accused is identified as Rehan Ansari, who targeted around 20 minor Hindu girls. More than 70 obscene videos were recovered from the accused's mobile phone. Most of the videos were between 20 and 25 minutes long. The recovery of these videos formed a key part of the police investigation. According to media reports, Rehan targeted Hindu victims through a premeditated modus operandi. After previously working at a mobile phone shop, he began operating a momo stall in Banke Bazaar, where he befriended the victims by offering them free momos. During this, he struck up conversations with them, obtaining their phone numbers and building relationships through social media. He was also active in creating social media reels, which investigators established he used to attract and establish contact with potential victims. The case came to light on 22 June 2026, when local youths became suspicious after seeing Rehan accompany one of the Hindu victims to a secluded spot behind rocks on the sacred Banke Dham hill, which houses an ancient Shiva temple. The youths followed them, recorded Rehan's activities on their mobile phones, and confronted the pair as they emerged. Rehan fled, leaving the minor girl behind. When the youths asked the victim for her father's phone number, she provided Rehan's number instead. Rehan answered the call while falsely claiming to be her father. After the youths informed him that the police would be called, he returned to the spot, where his mobile phone was seized during the confrontation. The phone contained more than 70 obscene videos involving multiple minor Hindu victims. Police examination of the videos stated that the victims belonged to the same locality and community. This confirmed investigators' findings that they had been deliberately targeted based on their religious identity. The recovered videos were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for forensic examination to determine whether they had been used for blackmail or formed part of a larger criminal operation. Following the registration of a First Information Report, Rehan absconded and fled to Delhi. Police conducted raids in Gaya, Delhi, and Mumbai to trace and arrest him. At the time of writing this report, the investigation remained ongoing. The accused's father, Dukhan Ansari, was a tailor by profession and was barely managing to support his family in extreme poverty. He explained that he had 11 surviving children, as one child had died, including eight sons and three daughters. Rehan was his youngest son. Two of his sons were mentally challenged, while the rest lived outside the state and worked as labourers. He said, "Rehan did run a momo stall, but he never contributed a single penny. He was obsessed with mobile phones and making reels. I was unaware of this dirty work. His maternal uncle has also been absconding since the incident. I learned that Rehan was hiding in Delhi." He further said, "I was putting pressure on him through my relatives so that he could surrender before the court or the police as soon as possible." Meanwhile, the investigation also revealed that one of Rehan's elder brothers had married a girl from the Hindu community in the area, and both of them lived outside the state. Banke Bazaar Station House Officer Pawan Kumar said that the police had been working with utmost sensitivity and promptness. The process of recording the victim's statement before the court under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was being completed. Raids had also been conducted at the accused's residence and his possible hideouts. He said, "The videos recovered from the accused's mobile phone were being sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory for examination. A key focus of our investigation was the accused's motive for making these obscene videos. Was it simply blackmail, or was there a larger racket behind it?"

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is being added to the tracker under the primary category: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary categories selected are: Rape and sexual assault/harassment, and Pattern of targeting Hindu minors. 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. The other primary category selected is: Attack not resulting in death. The subcategory selected: 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 stands as a clear example of a religiously motivated hate crime, where multiple minor Hindu girls were deliberately religiously profiled, lured into relationships, sexually exploited, and secretly filmed in obscene videos by a Muslim perpetrator. This selective targeting of Hindu victims, coupled with the absolute absence of any Muslim or other non-Hindu women in his trajectory, underscores the profound religious hostility harboured by the Muslim perpetrator. His actions were systematically directed against Hindu victims based entirely on their religious identity. It is critical to highlight that all the victims in this case were Hindus, a fact that exposes a definitive pattern of targeting Hindu individuals for sexual violence and exploitation. This was not a random pursuit of sexual gratification; rather, it was executed with a targeted religious motive, intentionally selecting Hindu victims because of their faith and subsequently subjecting them to sexual exploitation while secretly recording obscene videos of them. This exclusive focus on a single religious community classifies the incident unequivocally as a religiously driven hate crime. It is equally important to emphasise that the victims are minors, meaning that any element of legal consent or genuine change of conscience is missing ab initio. Due to their young age and immaturity, minors are highly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion, rendering them incapable of identifying predatory relationships, religious profiling, or calculated targeting designed to inflict sexual violence against them. The Muslim perpetrator actively exploited this age vulnerability, luring them into his trap and sexually assaulting them under a false pretence of affection. In reality, his objective was to target these victims for their Hindu identity and subject them to sexual violation. This deceptive angle makes the relationship highly predatory and manipulative, wherein romance is weaponised as a mere facade to ensnare the victims because of their faith. It is equally important to emphasise that the Muslim perpetrator employed a calculated and premeditated modus operandi to identify, approach, and entrap Hindu victims. He befriended them by offering free momos, initiated conversations, obtained their phone numbers, cultivated relationships through social media, and gradually gained their confidence before sexually violating them. Rather than being incidental, these acts formed part of a systematic strategy through which Hindu victims were deliberately identified and targeted because of their religious identity. The deceptive manner in which he cultivated relationships demonstrates that affection and trust were weaponised merely as tools to facilitate sexual exploitation. The Muslim perpetrator's tactic of initially luring Hindu victims into relationships before sexually assaulting them reveals a carefully planned strategy designed for entrapment. Once the victims were drawn into his confidence, he subjected them to sexual exploitation and secretly recorded obscene videos without their knowledge or informed consent. These actions extended far beyond opportunistic misconduct. The systematic recording and retention of dozens of such videos demonstrate that the exploitation was deliberate, organised, and intended to perpetuate the abuse. By weaponising intimacy against Hindu victims, the Muslim perpetrator transformed personal relationships into instruments of exploitation directed at a specific religious community. The recovery of more than 70 obscene videos involving around 20 Hindu victims further underscores the organised and systematic nature of the offences. The sheer volume of the recordings demonstrates that this was not an isolated incident involving a single victim but a sustained pattern of religiously profiled sexual violence. The deliberate preservation of these recordings also demonstrates that they were stored to be later used for intimidation, coercion, blackmail, or continued exploitation, further aggravating the gravity of the offences committed against the Hindu victims. Targeting victims explicitly for their religious identity cements this incident as an act of religiously motivated sexual violence fuelled by anti-Hindu hatred. The Hindu victims were sexually exploited and secretly filmed because the Muslim perpetrator viewed them as suitable targets on account of their faith, stripping them of their individuality within his prejudice-driven worldview. Unlike identity-neutral crimes, the exclusive religious profiling observed here, with no indication of women from his own community being similarly targeted, demonstrates hostility directed specifically against Hindus. This satisfies the defining characteristics of a hate crime through a clear intent to harm based on religion. The systematic nature of the offences underscores that these actions were not born of random lust but formed part of a deliberate campaign rooted in anti-Hindu animosity aimed at exploiting and humiliating Hindu victims. By framing his predatory conduct around the victims' religious identity and repeatedly targeting members of the same religious community, the Muslim perpetrator demonstrated that religious profiling lay at the heart of his conduct. This sustained pattern of targeting, grooming, sexual exploitation, and secret recording aligns with recognised indicators of a hate crime, confirming religious prejudice as the central motivating factor behind the offences. Notably, this is not the first time such targeted, religiously profiled exploitation of Hindu women and girls has occurred. The Hinduphobia Tracker has previously documented three other instances where Hindu women and girls were specifically targeted for their religious identity for sexual violence and harassment. For example, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, ten Hindu women were religiously profiled, trapped in relationships, and subsequently sexually exploited and blackmailed by a Muslim man named Shahid Sameer Sanadi. In another similar case from Kolhapur, two minor Hindu girls were religiously profiled, targeted, lured into relationships and sexually assaulted by a Muslim man named Sameer Allahbaksh Maner. In another case from 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 after multiple minor Hindu 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 Hindu student broke her silence. Given that this case satisfied multiple parameters of an anti-Hindu hate crime, it has been formally added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the date of an incident based on when the victim’s ordeal is understood to have begun, rather than the date on which it is first reported in the media. However, in the present case, media reports do not specify the exact onset date of the victim’s ordeal. Therefore, for documentation purposes, 22 June 2026, the date when the accused was caught red-handed by the local Hindus, is being used as the indicative incident date.