Hindu woman trapped by Muslim man posing as Hindu, raped and blackmailed, forced to convert to Islam

Case ID : 5954945 | Location : Gopalganj, Bihar, India | Date of Incident : Fri, 13 December, 2024
Case ID : 5954945
location Gopalganj, Bihar, India
date 13 December, 2024
Hindu woman trapped by Muslim man posing as Hindu, raped and blackmailed, forced to convert to Islam
Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes
Man pretends to be Hindu
Name Changed
Assault or threat upon refusal to convert
Blackmailed to convert

Case Summary

In Gopalganj, Bihar, a Hindu woman filed a police complaint against a man named Tabrez (or Tabrej) Alam, who deceived her by posing as a Hindu named Sameer Sehgal. He introduced himself as a school administrator. The victim, who moved to the city four years prior for her studies, was lured by Tabrez with promises of higher education and a good job. He took her to Kolkata under the pretext of better education, where he raped her, and captured compromising photos and videos of her. He used these videos for blackmail. Due to the continuous rape, the victim became pregnant. Tabrez forced her to undergo three abortions, registering her under the name "Alisa Khatoon" at the hospital. It was in Kolkata that she discovered Sameer Sehgal’s true identity, leading to a confrontation. She wanted to break up, but Tabrez forced her to stay in the relationship. Tabrez later brought the victim back to Gopalganj. In the rented house, Tabrez and his relatives started forcing the woman to convert to Islam. He began pressuring her to practice Islamic rituals. When she resisted, he locked her in a room, starved her, and physically assaulted her. The victim managed to escape and reported the incident to the police. Following her complaint, the police conducted a medical examination and registered a case. Tabrez is currently absconding, and police are conducting raids to locate him.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is being added to the primary category 'Crimes against women in relationship and other sexual crimes'. Because of the various threads of religious motivation in this crime, the case is being added to three separate sub-categories. The first sub-category 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. The second sub-category 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 third sub-category is 'Assault or threat upon refusal to convert'. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. According to the details of this case, the Muslim perpetrator pretended to be a Hindu to trap the Hindu woman into a sexual relationship. Thereafter, he made objectionable videos in order to blackmail the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and subsequently, threatened and assaulted her when she refused to convert. At every stage of the case, the Muslim perpetrator deceived the victim to convince her that he was a Hindu. He was then forcing the woman to convert to Islam, in a bid to disenfranchise the woman from her professed faith. From the details, the motivation of the perpetrator is evident. The fact that he pretended to be a Hindu before forcing the victim to convert also proves that the victim was specifically targeted for her religious identity and with the explicit purpose of predatory proselytisation. Such acts are driven by religious hostility, especially against Hindu women.

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
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Case Status


Complaint registered

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Perpetrators Details

Perpetrators


Muslim Extremists

Perpetrators Range


One Person

Perpetrators Gender


male

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