Multiple Hindu women targeted, deceived and blackmailed for religious conversion by Muslim man feigning Hindu identity
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India 
5 December, 2025
Case Summary
In Noida, Uttar Pradesh, multiple Hindu women were targeted, deceived and pressured for religious conversion by a Muslim man named Harun Khan, who pretended to be Hindu. According to reports, a woman from Sahaberi village filed a complaint with the police, stating that the accused, Harun Khan, lures and traps Hindu women by concealing his religious identity, posing as a Hindu. He then sexually exploits his victims and pressures them to convert to Islam by blackmailing them through their obscene videos. He often defames them by making their videos viral. The woman filed a follow-up complaint at the Bisrakh police station against Harun Khan and several of his associates for threatening her to withdraw the earlier case. She stated that Harun Khan was exerting pressure on her and was threatening to kill her if she did not drop the complaint. Alongside him, Raju Khan, Sikandar, Kapil Khan, Sahana Khan, Gudiya, and two unidentified relatives were involved in threatening her. The Bisrakh police registered a case on the basis of her complaint. Police also revealed that the accused had multiple previous cases registered against him for similar offences, including deceiving women by presenting himself as Hindu, committing sexual assault, recording obscene videos, and forcing conversions.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Man pretends to be Hindu and 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. The other sub-category relevant here is - Brainwashed and/or groomed, with the tertiary category being - Rape and sexual assault/harassment. In our database, we have not added incidents where women have converted to another religion of their free will and no allegations of forced/involuntary conversion have been made. However, there are certain cases of conversion where the consent itself is a result of the brainwashing or grooming of a minor by the non-Hindu perpetrator trying to victimise a woman for her Hindu religious identity. The phenomenon of grooming points to non-Hindu perpetrators identifying their Hindu victims’ vulnerabilities and exploiting them over months and sometimes years, to extract the supposed ‘consent’ in order to convert their religion. In most cases of grooming, the victims are minors or the grooming started when the victim was a minor. In other cases of grooming, the non-Hindu perpetrator brainwashes and grooms a minor victim to extract their trust and then proceeds to rape them repeatedly with the intent of converting them to their faith. It is pertinent to understand here that when the victim is a minor, the ‘consent’ to convert or enter into a romantic relationship with an adult itself is redundant – addressed by POCSO. While every case of conversion of a minor and incidents of establishing a physical relationship with a minor by an adult is a crime, for the purpose of this database, a case would be considered a hate crime only if there is a distinct religious angle to the grooming. For example, in the UK, if a Hindu minor is targeted by Pakistani grooming gangs, it would be considered a hate crime because the victims are specifically targeted owing to their non-Muslim religious identity with the perpetrators being Muslim. In other cases, if a Hindu minor is brainwashed into entering a physical relationship with the non-Hindu adult perpetrator and the family alleges grooming/brainwashing of the minor to convert her religion, it would form a part of this database. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered a hate crime. The other sub-category selected here 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. This case has been added to the tracker because multiple Hindu women were targeted, deceived, and pressured for religious conversion by the Muslim accused Harun Khan, who pretended to be Hindu. He lured them into relationships by pretending to be Hindu and sexually exploited them. Firstly, the perpetrators deliberately concealed their religious identity to initiate and sustain relationships with Hindu women. This itself is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victims' religion. By concealing their true identity, they exploited their trust, targeting them under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate them based on their religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to manipulate and "ensnare" Hindu individuals 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. Secondly, the Hindu women were sexually exploited by the Muslim perpetrators through deliberate deception. These were not random acts of sexual exploitation, but targeted assaults driven by religious bias. Such deception followed by sexual exploitation clearly shows this was an orchestration to single out and violate Hindu women because of their religious identity. Such acts of manipulation and religious profiling to sexually violate Hindu women due to their faith demonstrate the religiously motivated nature of the offences. Thirdly, the accused then pressured Hindu women for religious conversion. Pressuring Hindu individuals to discard their religious faith and embrace another is a direct attack on their religious identity and dignity. Such actions are not a matter of personal choice; they are coercion rooted in hostility towards the victims' Hindu identity. Such attempts reflect religious animosity because the acts are not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victims’ Hindu faith, making them religiously motivated crimes. Fourthly, the accused blackmailed Hindu women for conversion by recording their obscene videos. These exploitations were not random acts of crime; rather, they functioned as religiously motivated tools aimed at humiliating and dominating Hindu women because of their faith. The target was not the victims as individuals, but their Hindu identity. The specific focus on their Hindu identity in the commission of these acts highlights the religious hatred underlying the crimes, making them religiously motivated offences. Here, it is important to note that this case is not an isolated incident but part of a wider pattern in which Hindu individuals were deliberately targeted through deception, coercion, and religious pressure. The accused, Harun Khan, used the same modus operandi of pretending to be Hindu to gain the trust of multiple Hindu women. Reports show that he lured Hindu women, sexually exploited them, filmed them without consent, and then used the recordings to blackmail them into converting to Islam. When one of the survivors filed a complaint, he and his associates threatened her to withdraw it, and police later confirmed that he had several earlier cases for the same pattern of identity fraud, abuse, and forced conversion. This repeated method of targeting Hindus through deception and coercion demonstrates that such acts stem from a consistent religious hostility rather than isolated misconduct. Such actions stem from inherent hostility towards the victims' 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 victims. 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: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when an event occurred or when the victim's ordeal began. It is important to clarify that the victims were unknown in this case, and neither the date of the complaint was mentioned. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the incident was reported in the media, 6 November 2025. Disclaimer: Since it is mentioned that only Harun Khan pretended to be Hindu and trapped Hindu women, the perpetrator count has been kept as 1.
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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