Case Summary

In Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Hindus were insulted and threatened with violence by a Muslim youth named Imran, who also targeted multiple Hindu girls for sexual exploitation by posing as a Hindu. According to the complainant and preliminary investigations, it was revealed that Imran uploaded a video on social media on the occasion of Bakri Eid in which he issued veiled threats directed at the Hindu community. In the video, he is heard saying, “Jis kisi ko bhi dikkat hai woh ghar se bahar na nikle” (“Those who have a problem, don’t step out of your homes”), drawing a parallel to Holi, where someone had said Muslims who disliked colours should stay indoors. Imran used this analogy to warn Hindus to stay indoors during Bakri Eid, suggesting that there would be blood on the streets and that those Hindus who couldn’t tolerate the sight of blood should remain at home. With that story, he also shared a video of a woman dicing meat and blood flowing on the streets. Furthermore, in a similar video, a Muslim man drenched in blood is seen walking through the streets with the same caption, “Jisko dikkat hai ghar se na nikle,” once again delivering an implicit threat of violence to Hindus. Together, these instances reflect not only communal hostility but also a deliberate use of religious events to provoke fear and assert dominance. The threatening language and imagery, when combined with Imran’s videos of self-harm, suggest that these were not just empty threats. Hinduphobia Tracker reported that Imran, using a false Hindu identity, targeted multiple Hindu girls by befriending them and gradually drawing them into a romantic relationship. He used to work as an auto driver and used to selectively pick up Hindu school and college girls, often giving them a free ride to gain their trust and an eventual romantic relationship. He used a Hindu alias to introduce himself to the victims. He also used to wear a Kalawa to further reaffirm his fake Hindu identity in front of his prey. After gaining their trust, he used to record their private videos and used them to blackmail them for sexual exploitation, threatening to upload the videos on social media. He used to make them do obscene acts and financially exploit them. Furthermore, he also uploaded pictures of a few girls on social media with inflammatory posts. In a social media post, the accused boasted of trapping as many as 23 Hindu girls in the last two years. He also claimed that he had a personal target of trapping as many as 50 girls. Due to the efforts of local Hindu organisations, the accused was arrested by the police on June 8, 2025. According to the preliminary investigation and digital examination of his phone, multiple videos of him inflicting self-harm and of hate speech against Hindus were discovered. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing. Hinduphobia Tracker also spoke to complainant Vishnu Chauhan, who further stated that Imran, along with his Muslim friends, were running a racket of targeting Hindu girls. They also had a WhatsApp group in which they were sharing details about Hindu girls; thus, the full extent of his crime is yet to be revealed. Furthermore, the complainant had also revealed that the police were trying to suppress the case and had also deleted some of the evidence.

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Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of: - Hate speech against Hindus. Within it, the sub-category selected is: - Violent threats. Violent threats, explicit, implicit or implied, is the most dangerous form of hate speech since it goes beyond discriminatory and prejudicial language to express the intent of causing harm to an individual or a group of people based on their religious identity and faith. There could be several different kinds of threats that are issued to Hindus based on religious animosity. An explicit threat would mean the direct threat of violence towards an individual Hindu, a group of Hindus or Hindus at large. Physical violence, death threats, threats of destruction of property belonging to Hindus and threats of genocide would mean explicit threats against Hindus for their religious identity. Implicit threats may not be a direct threat but implied through the use of symbols of actions – for example – in the Nupur Sharma case, other than explicit threats, there were also implicit threats when Islamists took to the streets to burn and beat her effigies. It implies that they want to do the same to Nupur Sharma – thereby is considered an implicit threat. Violent threats can be delivered in person, through letters, phone calls, graffiti, or increasingly through social media and other online platforms. It would be important to understand that a threat – explicit or implicit, online or offline – to an individual who happens to be a Hindu does not qualify as a religiously motivated threat. Such a threat, while vile and dangerous, could be owing to non-religious reasons and/or personal animosity. To qualify as a religiously motivated threat, it would need to exhibit an indication that the individual is being targeted for religious reasons and/or owing to his/her religious identity as a Hindu. This case has been added to the tracker because it involves clear, premeditated threats and communal targeting of Hindus by a Muslim man named Imran. On the occasion of Bakri Eid, Imran issued veiled threats to the Hindu community through social media posts, effectively warning Hindus to remain indoors if they had a problem with animal sacrifice. He drew a false equivalence with Holi—claiming that just as Muslims who dislike colours are advised to stay indoors during Holi, Hindus who are uncomfortable with slaughter and blood should stay inside during Eid. This analogy is both misleading and malicious. Holi is a vibrant, non-violent, and inclusive celebration rooted in colour, joy, and cultural festivity. By contrast, Bakri Eid involves animal slaughter—a practice that, while religiously significant for Muslims, can be deeply distressing to Hindus who revere the cow and generally view public animal sacrifice as morally and culturally offensive. Imran’s framing was not a call for tolerance but a thinly veiled threat: accept our ways in public spaces, or stay out of them altogether. The rhetoric was accompanied by disturbing visuals: videos showing blood flowing in the streets, a woman chopping meat, and a Muslim man soaked in blood walking through the lanes—all captioned with the chilling line, “Jisko dikkat hai ghar se na nikle” (“Those who have a problem should not step out of their homes”). These were not generic Eid visuals; they were deliberately curated and posted to shock, provoke, and psychologically terrorise Hindus by making a public display of dominance through violence-laced symbolism. Moreover, this was not an isolated act of online provocation. Videos recovered from Imran’s phone included not just hate speech but also footage of self-harm, further revealing a deranged and radicalised mindset. His social media activity and private content point toward a dangerous cocktail of ideological extremism and personal instability, which cannot be dismissed as casual posting. His actions stemmed from religious animosity that exists in Abrahamic faith against other faiths, which sees non-believers, especially Hindus, as inferior or expendable. Thus, within this supremacist worldview, Hindus aren’t seen as fellow citizens but as ideological enemies, making any humiliation and violence not only acceptable but even desirable. Such slurs and denigration, therefore, it is categorised as hate speech targeted at Hindus specifically owing to their religious identity.