Hindu woman lured into relationship under pretext of marriage, raped by Muslim man posing as Hindu in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan

Case ID : 30a947a | Location : Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India | Date of Incident : Thu, 2 July, 2026

Case ID : 30a947a

Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India

2 July, 2026

Hindu woman lured into relationship under pretext of marriage, raped by Muslim man posing as Hindu in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Case Summary

A Hindu woman was lured into a relationship and raped by a Muslim man posing as a Hindu in the Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. According to media reports, the accused, identified as Sajid Ali Mangaria, concealed his religious identity while befriending the victim on Instagram. According to the victim, he lured her into a relationship by falsely promising marriage and subsequently raped her. When the matter came to light, the accused fled Rajasthan and went into hiding in the Kutch district of Gujarat. Based on the victim's complaint, the Sri Ganganagar Women's Police Station registered a case against him under Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The Rajasthan Police launched a search for the accused, using modern technology and coordinating with the Gujarat Police. Given the seriousness of the case, the Gujarat Police launched an investigation under the supervision of senior police officials. Acting on intelligence gathered through local informants and sustained surveillance, the police arrested Sajid Ali Mangaria from Ved village in Anjar taluka of Kutch. After completing the required legal formalities, the Gujarat Police handed him over to the Rajasthan Police, which would take further legal action in the case.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

In this case, the primary category selected is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Man pretends to be Hindu. 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 into a relationship by a Muslim man who concealed his religious identity and presented himself as a Hindu. After gaining her trust, he lured her into the relationship on the false promise of marriage and raped her. This overall makes this incident a clear example of a religiously driven hate crime. Firstly, the perpetrator's act of deception by posing as a Hindu itself demonstrates a clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By hiding his true identity, the Muslim man manipulated the Hindu woman's trust and specifically targeted her under false pretences, indicating a premeditated effort to exploit her because of her religious background. This deception deprived the victim of her right to make an informed decision about entering into an intimate relationship, as she was deliberately denied truthful information about the perpetrator's identity. The accused was aware that the victim, being Hindu, would likely have refused his advances had she known his real identity, and he circumvented this by concealing his religion and falsely promising marriage. This deliberate concealment underscores the religious motive behind the crime. In such instances, identity concealment is not merely a deceptive tactic for personal gain but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and the targeting of Hindu women. Such conduct reflects a broader pattern in which Hindu women are singled out through false identities by Muslim men, exposing a deeper hostility towards Hindus and their beliefs. Secondly, the Hindu woman was raped after being deliberately deceived into a relationship through the accused's false Hindu identity and false promise of marriage. The sexual assault was not an isolated act detached from the preceding deception; rather, it was made possible by the perpetrator's conscious decision to target a Hindu woman by concealing his religious identity. Had the victim known that the accused was a Muslim, she would have had the opportunity to make an informed choice about whether to enter into the relationship. By depriving her of that choice and exploiting her trust, the accused selectively targeted the victim because she was Hindu and subjected her to sexual violence. The rape was therefore not merely an act of sexual exploitation but the culmination of a religiously motivated pattern of deception directed at a Hindu woman. The victim's Hindu identity was central to the manner in which the offence was executed, making the sexual violence an instrument of targeted victimisation based on religion. Such acts demonstrate not only a disregard for the victim's bodily autonomy but also hostility towards her religious identity, bringing the offence within the ambit of a religiously motivated hate crime. Overall, since this case meets the parameters of a religiously driven hate crime, 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 the incident is reported in the media. However, in this case, media reports did not specify the exact date on which the victim's ordeal began. Therefore, the date on which the incident was first reported in the media, 3 July 2026, has been used as the indicative incident date.