Hindu woman lured and sexually exploited by Muslim man posing as Hindu; blackmailed with obscene videos and extorted for money

Case ID : 30aae27 | Location : Gajraula, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Thu, 13 November, 2025

Case ID : 30aae27

Gajraula, Uttar Pradesh, India

13 November, 2025

Hindu woman lured and sexually exploited by Muslim man posing as Hindu; blackmailed with obscene videos and extorted for money

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Case Summary

In Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, a 22-year-old Hindu woman was lured into a relationship under a false identity by a Muslim man, Ayan Saifi, who introduced himself as a Hindu man named Prince. He subjected her to prolonged sexual exploitation, blackmailed her with obscene videos, impregnated her, and forced her to undergo an abortion. According to reports, the victim met the accused in November 2025 while attending a wedding at her sister-in-law’s parental home in Gajraula. During this time, the accused introduced himself as Prince and exchanged mobile numbers with her. They subsequently began communicating and developed a friendship. After the friendship developed, the accused invited her to a hotel on Grand Trunk Road under the pretext of having a conversation. At the hotel, he raped her and recorded obscene videos and photographs of her. When she objected, he assured her that he would delete the recordings and photographs. A few days later, he invited her to meet him at the hotel again. When she refused to go, he threatened to circulate the videos and photographs. He subsequently used the threat of making the material public to sexually exploit her on multiple occasions. During this period, she became pregnant, after which the accused gave her abortion medication. Later on, she discovered that his real name was Ayan Saifi and that he was a Muslim. He also extorted thousands of rupees from her and threatened to kill her and her family when she protested and threatened to approach the police On 12 October 2026, the accused again invited her to meet him. When he was unable to find a hotel, the situation escalated. Following the incident, members of a Hindu organisation beat him. A video of the incident went viral, bringing the case to public attention. The woman subsequently lodged a complaint with the police, seeking action against the Muslim accused. Upasana Pandey, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Kotwali, stated that a case had been registered at Nagar Kotwali police station against Ayan Saifi, also known as Prince, a resident of Gajraula. The police arrested him and began investigating the matter, including examining the facts and evidence relating to the woman’s statement.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Man pretends to be Hindu, with the tertiary category being - 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. In this case, the Hindu woman was lured and deceived into a friendship by a Muslim man pretending to be Hindu. He subsequently raped her repeatedly, blackmailed her with obscene videos and photographs, impregnated her, forced her to undergo an abortion, and extorted money from her. The use of a false name by a Muslim man when approaching a Hindu woman proved the deception and the concealment of religious identity. By introducing himself as Prince rather than Ayan Saifi, the accused withheld his actual name during their initial acquaintance. This aspect of the case demonstrated that the woman had not been given real information about the identity of the person with whom she was developing a friendship. The concealment of personal identity undermined the foundation of trust on which that friendship developed and deprived her of the opportunity to make fully informed decisions about the relationship. The significance of identity-based deception lay in the vulnerability it created for a Hindu woman who had entered a relationship without knowing the other person's actual identity. Trust, personal autonomy and the freedom to make informed decisions about relationships were important considerations in this context. Where deception preceded sexual exploitation, blackmail and coercion, it compounded the harm experienced by the woman and revealed the misuse of interpersonal trust. In such instances, identity concealment was not just a deceptive tactic for personal reasons but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The accused was aware that the victim, being Hindu, would most 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 were 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 hostility towards Hindus and their beliefs. The incident highlighted the vulnerability of a Hindu woman to deception and exploitation and raised concerns about the concealment of identity in an interfaith interaction. Accordingly, this case has been documented in the Hinduphobia Tracker's Hate Crime Database as an instance of religiously motivated hostility directed against Hinduism and the religious identity of the Hindu community. Disclaimer: The exact date on which the Hindu woman and the Muslim accused first came into contact was not specified in the available source. However, their initial meeting was reported to have taken place in November 2025. The tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred rather than when it was reported or published. In this case, 14 November 2025 has been used as the indicative incident date, derived by aligning the month and year of their first meeting with the day of the month on which the initial article was published, that is, 14 October 2026. This date has been recorded for documentation purposes only.