Hindu woman lured into relationship by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Lumding, Assam

Case ID : 30a9eb7 | Location : Lumding Railway Colony, Assam, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 15 August, 2026

Case ID : 30a9eb7

Lumding Railway Colony, Assam, India

15 August, 2026

Hindu woman lured into relationship by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Lumding, Assam

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Case Summary

In Lumding, Assam, a Hindu woman was lured into a relationship by a Muslim man who concealed his religious identity and posed as a Hindu. According to media reports, the Muslim man was identified as Bilal Hussain. He was a resident of Nagaon who had previously stayed in Dimapur. Hussain came to Lumding and pursued a relationship with the Hindu woman while falsely presenting himself as a Hindu. He remained in a relationship with her for a prolonged period and subsequently attempted to take her away from the area. The situation escalated when Hussain was intercepted and detained by residents of Nagarpora in Lumding while he was attempting to take the woman away. The residents informed the police and administration and handed Hussain over to the authorities. While interacting with the media, a local Hindu resident stated that Hussain was already married despite pursuing the Hindu woman. He had feigned love for her and attempted to elope with her. The incident subsequently created tension in the area, with Hussain’s concealed identity and relationship with the Hindu woman drawing attention.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within this, 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, the Hindu woman was deceived into a relationship by a Muslim man pretending to be Hindu. After this, he attempted to take her away and elope with her. Firstly, the perpetrator's act of deception by posing as a Hindu itself demonstrated 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 targeted her under false pretences, indicating a deliberate effort to exploit the woman based on her religious background. Additionally, the prolonged connection legitimised the relationship in the eyes of the woman and the wider Hindu community. This constituted a direct violation of her right to make an informed decision regarding whom she chooses to enter into a relationship with, as well as an infringement upon her religious beliefs. Thus, the perpetrator’s deliberate decision to hide his religious identity strongly underscored the religious motive behind this crime. In such instances, identity concealment is not just a deceptive tactic for personal reasons but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The perpetrator was aware that the victim, being Hindu, would likely refuse his advances if she knew his real identity, and he circumvented this by lying, which directly pointed to a religiously driven intent. This deception reflected a larger pattern where Hindu women are specifically singled out using false identities by Muslim men, often with coercion or conversion in mind. Such targeted victimisation based on religion not only demonstrated a fundamental disregard for Hinduism but also exposed a deeper animosity toward Hindus and their beliefs. After luring the Hindu woman into a relationship through religious deception and a false Hindu identity, the perpetrator attempted to elope with her. His actions demonstrated that the deception was not merely a matter of concealing personal information, but formed part of the circumstances through which he pursued and attempted to take away a Hindu woman who had entered the relationship without knowledge of his true religious identity. Such conduct also creates fear and a sense of insecurity among other Hindu women, who become concerned that they too could be targeted through religious deception, fraudulent relationships and attempts at elopement. The targeting of the victim through concealment of religious identity, followed by the attempt to elope with her, therefore made her Hindu identity directly relevant to the nature of the crime and constituted a clear example of religiously motivated targeting. Therefore, since this case meets the parameters of a religiously driven crime, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when the victim’s ordeal begins rather than when the incident is reported by the media. However, in this case, the exact date on which the perpetrator lured the victim into the relationship was not specified in the available sources. Hence, 16 August 2026, the date on which the incident was reported by the media, has been selected as the indicative incident date for documentation purposes only.