Muslim man wears Kalava and pretends to be Hindu, attempts to convert Hindu woman. Assaults her for resistence
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 
15 August, 2023
Case Summary
Muslim man Irshad Ali entrapped a Hindu girl by posing as a Hindu in Barabanki, Lucknow. He wore a Kalava around his wrist to deceive the girl. He married her according to Hindu rituals after which the accused called a cleric to forcefully convert her to Islam against her will. The victim was then assaulted by Irshad Ali when she resisted. An FIR was filed in the case after the victim's father reported the disappearance of the victim.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
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 victim in the given case was a Hindu woman. The perpetrator, a Muslim man, got into a relationship with the victim by misleading the victim about his religious identity with the motive of converting her to Islam upon marriage. The fact that the perpetrator donned a Hindu religious symbol and chose to marry her in a Hindu temple, according to Hindu traditions, points towards the fact that he wanted to specifically target the victim because of her religious identity as a Hindu. The Muslim perpetrator targeted the victim specifically owing to her religious identity and after that, tried to forcefully change her religious identity to Islam pointing towards a crime with his motivations being driven by religious hate.
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
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
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