Hindu nursing student drugged, raped and blackmailed with explicit video to convert by Muslim man using fake Hindu identity
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India 
7 September, 2022
Case Summary
In Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu nursing student was deceived by a Muslim man using a fake Hindu identity. She was drugged, raped, and subsequently blackmailed with an explicit video to force her conversion to Islam. In 2022, the victim, originally from Shahjahanpur, was pursuing her General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) studies at a college in Bareilly. During this period, she met a Muslim man from Milak, Rampur. The perpetrator concealed his religious identity and introduced himself using a Hindu name to establish a relationship. He gained the student's trust by falsely promising to secure her a government job in the health department after she completed her degree. Operating under the pretext of this promise, the man took the student to a hotel. There, he laced her beverage with an intoxicant, rendering her unconscious, and raped her. During the assault, he recorded an explicit video of the victim on his mobile phone. Following the incident, the perpetrator weaponised the footage, threatening to circulate the video on social media to continuously blackmail the woman and pressure her into converting to Islam. When the victim travelled to Milak to initiate a formal police complaint regarding the sexual assault, deception, and religious coercion, the perpetrator and his family members intervened. They pressured the victim to agree to a compromise to prevent her from pursuing legal action. Milak Kotwali in-charge Sanjay Kumar said the police would begin a full investigation and take formal action as soon as the victim submitted her written complaint.
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. Within this, the subcategory selected is: Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category selected is: Name Changed. 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. The second subcategory selected is: Blackmailed to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman is blackmailed to convert her religion, owing to her religious identity of being a Hindu. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim, however, there could be cases where the relationship is not consensual and the non-Hindu man starts blackmailing a Hindu woman to convert her religion. In these cases, it is often seen that the Hindu woman is blackmailed with intimate photos and/or videos, threats of harm to her or her family, threats of violence etc. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. The other category selected is: Predatory proselytisation. Within this, the selected subcategory is: Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. This incident qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime because the entire interaction was predicated on the deliberate concealment of the perpetrator's Muslim identity to deceive and trap a Hindu woman. By adopting a fake Hindu name, the perpetrator demonstrated a premeditated intent to bypass the victim's natural boundaries and religious sensibilities. This initial act of religious deception established that the relationship was never genuine; rather, it was a calculated scheme targeting a Hindu individual. The victim was selected because her religious background made her a target for this specific form of predatory infiltration, setting the stage for subsequent religious coercion. Once the initial deception secured the victim's association, the perpetrator engaged in calculated grooming by exploiting her professional ambitions. As a nursing student, she was vulnerable to false promises of secure government employment in the health sector. The perpetrator weaponised this vulnerability to build trust and dependency. This systematic manipulation was a necessary precursor to forced proselytisation, as it intentionally isolated the victim and placed her in a highly vulnerable position where the perpetrator could eventually exercise absolute control over her physical safety. The subsequent drugging and rape were not isolated acts of sexual gratification, but deliberate steps taken to extract leverage for religious subjugation. By rendering the victim unconscious and sexually assaulting her, the perpetrator violently stripped away her bodily autonomy. In the context of predatory proselytisation, such severe sexual violence is utilised to break a victim's psychological resistance and instil deep, paralysing trauma. This physical violation served as the crucial foundation for the final phase of the attack, turning the sexual assault into a tool meant to destroy her personal and religious agency. The most explicit religious marker in this coercion manifested through the creation and weaponisation of the explicit video. The perpetrator used the intimate recording as a direct instrument of faith-based blackmail. By threatening to circulate the video on social media, the perpetrator intended to use societal stigma and the destruction of her dignity as leverage. The ultimatum forced upon her was absolute: abandon Hinduism, or face public ruin. This relentless blackmail constituted a severe form of religious harassment and psychological coercion. The continuous threats stripped the victim of her fundamental freedom to practice her professed religion in peace. The perpetrator's actions were designed to make the victim feel that her Hindu identity was a liability, and that her only avenue for safety and social survival was to submit to his religious demands. This torment was deeply rooted in a discriminatory animosity that viewed the Hindu woman's faith as an obstacle to be aggressively dismantled through fear and humiliation. The fear and humiliation were therefore not ends in themselves, but tools used to break the victim’s resistance and force her to abandon her Hindu faith. Such targeted victimisation based on religion not only demonstrates a fundamental disregard for Hinduism but also exposes a deeper animosity toward Hindus and their beliefs. This is why this case has been included in the tracker, as it exemplifies a clear instance of religiously motivated hate and exploitation. Disclaimer: The exact date on which the Hindu woman and the Muslim perpetrator first came into contact was not specified in the available sources. However, the sources indicate that they first met in 2022, while the victim was studying GNM at a nursing college in Bareilly. The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred or when the victim's ordeal began, not when it was reported or published. However, because the only available information is the year, we used 8th September 2022 as the indicative incident date, which was derived by aligning the date and month of reporting with the available year. This date has been recorded for documentation purposes only.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint not filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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