Multiple Hindu girls befriended, raped, blackmailed, and forced into prostitution by Muslim men posing as Hindus in Dehradun

Case ID : 30a9b76 | Location : Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 4 August, 2026

Case ID : 30a9b76

Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

4 August, 2026

Multiple Hindu girls befriended, raped, blackmailed, and forced into prostitution by Muslim men posing as Hindus in Dehradun

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Pattern of targeting Hindu women

Case Summary

In Dehradun, Uttarakhand, ten Hindu girls were lured, raped, blackmailed, and forced into prostitution by a group of Muslim men. The accused used fake Hindu identities to befriend and deceive the victims through social media. They lured the victims with false promises of jobs and modelling opportunities. The incident came to light after a video of a Bajrang Dal raid went viral on social media. During the raid, Bajrang Dal members apprehended a Muslim man who had introduced himself as Rahul to the victims. When questioned, he disclosed that his real name was Mohammad Farhan and that his father's name was Naushad. He also admitted that he and his Muslim associates had trapped more than ten Hindu girls and forced them into prostitution. He further stated that they lived under false Hindu identities, kept an idol of Laddu Gopal in their house to conceal their religious identity, and that everyone involved in the racket was Muslim. He also identified other Muslim perpetrators who were using false Hindu names such as Pawan and Sonu. The accused contacted Hindu girls through Instagram and Facebook, lured them with promises of employment and modelling assignments, called them to hotels, raped them, recorded their photographs and videos, blackmailed them using the explicit material, and subsequently forced them into prostitution. One of the rescued victims from Uttarakhand stated that a man known to her as Michael, in reality a Muslim from Dehradun, had first contacted her on Instagram. She said he raped her, recorded her photographs and videos, blackmailed her with the material, consumed drugs and alcohol, pressured her to do the same, and forced her to engage in sexual acts with his friends at different locations. The viral video, uploaded on X by the handle Team Hindu United, also showed a photograph of a man sitting on a bed between two women while counting bundles of currency notes, which Bajrang Dal members linked to the prostitution racket. They further stated that advertisements connected to the prostitution network had continued to operate openly despite repeated warnings. Bajrang Dal members stated that ten Hindu girls had been trapped in the racket. Of them, three were rescued, while seven remained missing at the time. During the raid, one of the rescued victims identified a man known to her as Sonu as the person who had trapped her. Bajrang Dal members further stated that one dealer managed to escape, while Farhan, who had been posing as Rahul, was apprehended and handed over to the police.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been 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. The tertiary category selected is- Name Changed & Pattern of targeting Hindu women. 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. This case is a clear example of a religiously motivated hate crime because the Muslim perpetrators did not merely conceal their personal identities; they deliberately adopted fabricated Hindu identities to identify, approach, and gain the trust of Hindu women. One of the accused, Mohammad Farhan, admitted that he had introduced himself as "Rahul", that he and his associates lived under Hindu identities, and that they even kept an idol of Laddu Gopal in their house to reinforce the deception. He further identified individuals using names such as Rahul, Pawan, and Sonu as Muslims operating under false Hindu identities. This demonstrated that the use of Hindu identities was not incidental but a calculated strategy to establish credibility with Hindu women. By deliberately presenting themselves as Hindus, the perpetrators deprived the victims of the ability to make an informed decision about whom they wished to trust, befriend, or associate with. The victims believed they were interacting with members of their own religious community, when in reality they were being deceived by individuals who had intentionally concealed their Muslim identities. This deception violated the victims' religious autonomy to choose their associations in accordance with their own beliefs and values. The concealment of religious identity therefore formed the very foundation upon which the subsequent exploitation became possible. The victims were not selected at random but were specifically profiled because they were Hindu girls. Throughout the interaction, repeated references were made to Hindu girls from Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and other hill regions being targeted, while Farhan himself admitted that more than ten Hindu girls had been brought into the prostitution racket. The repeated identification of the victims by their religious identity established a discernible pattern of religious profiling rather than opportunistic criminal conduct. The perpetrators first identified Hindu girls, then adopted fabricated Hindu identities to gain their confidence, and only thereafter subjected them to exploitation. This sequence clearly demonstrated that the victims' Hindu identity formed an integral part of the manner in which they were identified, approached, deceived, and ultimately exploited. The deception was therefore not a case of ordinary impersonation but a deliberate method of targeting Hindu women because of their religious identity. The sexual exploitation that followed was also inseparable from this religious targeting. The perpetrators contacted Hindu girls, raped them, recorded explicit photographs and videos, and used those recordings to blackmail them before forcing them into prostitution. The sexual violence was therefore not an isolated offence that occurred independently of the religious deception. Rather, the fabricated Hindu identities were the mechanism through which the perpetrators secured access to Hindu women and created a false sense of trust before violating them. The victims were sexually exploited only after being deliberately targeted and manipulated as Hindu women, making the sexual violence itself intrinsically connected to their religious identity. The blackmail and subsequent coercion into prostitution further demonstrated the profound dehumanisation with which the perpetrators treated the Hindu victims. It reflected a sustained pattern of exploitation in which the victims were progressively stripped of their autonomy, dignity, and freedom simply for being Hindus. The perpetrators first violated the victims' religious autonomy through calculated deception, then violated their bodily autonomy through rape, and finally reduced them to commodities through blackmail and forced prostitution. Such conduct demonstrated an exceptional level of dehumanisation directed specifically at Hindu women, treating them as individuals who could be systematically manipulated, exploited, and commercially abused after being targeted because of their religious identity. Overall, since this case met several parameters of a religiously motivated hate crime, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The exact date on which the Hindu girls first came into contact with the accused or when the offences commenced was not specified in the available sources. The tracker records incident dates based on when the underlying offence occurred rather than when it was reported or published. As the available material did not specify the exact commencement of the offences, 4th August 2026, the date when this incident came to light on social media, has been used as the indicative incident date for documentation purposes only. For documentation purposes, the perpetrator count was recorded as five Muslim perpetrators based on the individuals identified in the available material. This included Mohd. Farhan, who had been posing as Rahul, individuals identified as Pawan and Sonu who had been operating under false Hindu names, Michel, who had been identified by a victim as a Muslim from Dehradun, and one unidentified dealer who had escaped. Although the material indicated the involvement of additional individuals in the racket, only these five Muslim perpetrators had been specifically identified or distinctly referred to and were therefore included in the perpetrator count.