Hindu woman deceived into relationship and pressured to convert to Islam by Muslim man who posed as a Hindu

Case ID : 30ab4d0 | Location : Delhi, Delhi, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 10 November, 2024

Case ID : 30ab4d0

Delhi, Delhi, India

10 November, 2024

Hindu woman deceived into relationship and pressured to convert to Islam by Muslim man who posed as a Hindu

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Forced conversion before marriage

Case Summary

A 20-year-old Hindu woman was deceived into a relationship and pressured to convert to Islam by a Muslim man named Imran, who concealed his religious identity and introduced himself as Rahul. According to reports, the accused befriended the Hindu woman approximately two years before the incident, in 2024, and gradually lured her into a relationship with her by concealing his actual name and religious identity. He also promised to marry her and, during the course of the relationship, took obscene photographs and videos of her. The Hindu woman, who was a resident of the Dwarka area of Delhi, later discovered that the accused she had known as Rahul was actually Imran, a resident of Kundarki in Moradabad. After learning his true identity, she refused to marry him. Following her refusal, Imran and his brother Faiz began pressuring her to convert to Islam. The accused also refused to marry her and threatened to circulate her private photographs and videos. When the victim resisted the pressure to convert, the accused stopped communicating with her. The woman subsequently attempted to contact Imran's family but received no response. She then approached the Kundarki police station and lodged a complaint against Imran and his brother, Faiz Khan. Based on her complaint, the police registered a case against the two brothers on charges of fraud and intimidation and initiated an investigation. Superintendent of Police (Rural) Kunwar Akash Singh confirmed that a case had been registered against Imran and his brother, Faiz Khan, and stated that further action would be taken based on the findings of the investigation.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This incident has been added to the tracker under the primary category: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within it, the sub-category 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. The other subcategory is: Forced conversion before marriage. In such cases, a non-Hindu man is in a relationship with a Hindu woman when the pressure to convert her religion begins to manifest. In such cases, typically, two patterns emerge. First, when the relationship is consensual and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu woman in the relationship, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts to force the victim to convert her religion and give up her Hindu religious identity. The second is when the woman marries the man, who pretends to share her faith. Later, when the truth is revealed, the man starts pressuring the woman to convert her religion and give up her religious identity. In both situations, the methods used to force the victim to convert her religion often revolve around force-feeding beef, forcing her to wear hijab, forcing her to read the Kalma or even pressuring the victim to do ‘Nikah’, which is marriage under Islamic law, with a prerequisite being conversion to Islam. Cases where a Hindu woman consensually converts to Islam in a relationship will be left out of the hate crime database, even though it could be argued in several cases that the conversion was a result of religious brainwashing. The case was added to the tracker because of the identity-based deception targeting of a Hindu woman in an intimate relationship and subsequent pressure to convert to Islam. The accused deliberately concealed his religious identity and pretended to be a Hindu man to initiate and sustain a relationship with a Hindu woman. This itself is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By concealing his true identity, he exploited her trust, targeting her under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate her based on her religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to manipulate and "ensnare" a Hindu individual is not just an act of personal betrayal but can also be interpreted as an expression of disdain or disregard for Hinduism and its customs that reflects a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. 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. The clearest religious marker in this case is the attempt to force the victim to abandon her Hindu identity and adopt another religion. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard her religious faith and embrace another was a direct attack on her religious identity and dignity. It was not a matter of personal choice; it was coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act is not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making it a religiously motivated crime. The Muslim accused also refused to marry her and threatened to circulate her obscene videos. These exploitations were not random acts of crime; rather, they functioned as religiously motivated tools aimed at humiliating and dominating a Hindu girl because of her faith. The target was not the victim as an individual, but her Hindu identity Such actions stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. Such acts were not merely personal crimes; they were rooted in a desire to dominate and erase the religious identity of the victim. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that she came into contact with the accused in 2024. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 10 November 2026, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 10 November 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.