Hindu woman deceived, raped, forced abortion, and pressured to convert by Muslim man who posed as Hindu

Case ID : 8da17d5 | Location : Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 30 April, 2023

Case ID : 8da17d5

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

30 April, 2023

Hindu woman deceived, raped, forced abortion, and pressured to convert by Muslim man who posed as Hindu

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Forced conversion before marriage

Blackmailed to convert

Assault or threat upon refusal to convert

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Case Summary

A Hindu woman was deceived by a Muslim man who pretended to be a Hindu and then subjected her to rape, blackmail, pressure to convert and forced abortion in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The 21-year-old survivor filed a case on 9 November 2025 at Vijayanagar Police Station in Indore against Happy Ali, alias Happy Punjabi, alias Irfan Ali. She stated that he hid his real identity, drugged her, raped her, recorded photos and videos, used them to blackmail her, kept forcing physical relations on her, pressured her to convert to Islam, and later forced her to get her pregnancy terminated. She approached the Hindu organisation Karni Sena for help, whose members caught him and handed him over to the police. On the basis of her written complaint, Vijayanagar Police registered serious offences against the accused and arrested him. The survivor, originally from Rajasthan, lived on rent in Nipania and worked as a makeup artist. She said she met the Muslim man in May 2023 when he introduced himself as “Happy Punjabi.” He called her to a hotel on the pretext of arranging a job, offered her a cold drink mixed with drugs, and made her unconscious. When she woke up the next morning, she found herself without clothes and realised that she had been raped. When she protested, he showed her the obscene photos and videos he had recorded. After that, he repeatedly came to her house, threatened her with those videos, and kept forcing physical relations on her. In 2024, when he was taking her somewhere, he had an argument with an auto driver in the Vijayanagar area. It was at that point she realised he was not “Happy Punjabi” but actually Irfan Ali. When she confronted him, he told her clearly, “I am Muslim, you will also have to become Muslim.” After this, she went back to Rajasthan. When she returned to Indore in January 2025, he again started pressuring her for sexual relations and conversion. Due to his behaviour, she again returned to Rajasthan. When she later came back to Indore for work, he again started harassment, blackmail, and even took her to Dewas. She somehow escaped from there and reached Indore, and informed her family. She said the last time he forced sex on her was in October 2025. One day, when he left her at a house, she escaped and came back to Indore and later filed a complaint.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The first subcategory under this is: Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category under this is: 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 second subcategory under this 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, however, 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 gets into a marriage with the man pretending 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 the 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 pressurizing 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 third subcategory under this 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 fourth subcategory under this 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. The fifth subcategory under this is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary category under this is: 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 hate crimes. This case has been added to the Hinduphobia Tracker because it reflects a deliberate pattern of deceit, sexual violence, blackmail, and coercion that was used not only to exploit a Hindu woman sexually but also to forcibly erode her religious identity and attempt to convert her. The foundational trigger in this crime was the perpetrator’s malicious concealment of his Muslim identity, and the religious pressure that followed once the truth surfaced. He pretended to be a Hindu man specifically to enter the woman’s trust and proximity, and then weaponised that trust to rape her, repeatedly violate her body, blackmail her, and threaten her with the religious demand that she “must become Muslim.” This shows that his initial fraudulent Hindu identity was not incidental. It was an instrument of religious targeting. Firstly, the very basis of the relationship was deception relating to religious identity. He introduced himself with a Hindu-coded identity (“Happy Punjabi”), and only later, after trapping her sexually and obtaining intimate content to control her, revealed that he was Muslim. This demonstrates that the deception had a religious purpose behind it, not just personal cheating. The case also fits into the subcategory of forced conversion before marriage because the pressure to convert began during the relationship itself, and not after any formal marriage. The perpetrator used intimidation, blackmail and physical force to condition her acceptance of Islam. The demand “You will also have to become Muslim” once his real identity was revealed is not a casual statement; it is a coercive religious directive tied to continued sexual violence. Additionally, the accused used intimate videos and threats of public shaming to extract both sexual compliance and religious compliance. He used the fear of public humiliation and reputational destruction not just to rape her repeatedly, but also to corner her religiously. Finally, the victim repeatedly tried to distance herself from him, left the city multiple times, returned to her home state, but every time she returned, he again exploited her fear, her isolation, and her need to find work, to continue forcing sexual relations and conversion pressure. Physical assaults and sexual assaults were tied directly to the refusal to convert. This case is therefore not an ordinary sexual crime. It is a sexual crime that was built on the axis of religious deception and religious domination, where the Hindu woman’s identity itself was the target. He did not treat her merely as an individual he could exploit sexually; he treated her as a Hindu woman he could subjugate. His change of name, false Hindu persona, and later explicit attempts to convert her were not random; they show a clear ideological intent. The combination of deception, rape, blackmail, forced abortion, and conversion pressure makes the religious intent inseparable from the crime. The deceit began with religious identity, the violence was sustained through religious coercion, and the exit from the relationship was obstructed through religious threats. It is therefore documented as a religiously motivated hate crime against a Hindu woman, consistent with the categories defined in the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The incident date, 1 May 2023, has been used here as a placeholder for timeline accuracy because the exact date has not been mentioned in the available reporting. The only information available is that the woman first met the accused and was lured into contact in May 2023. Therefore, the placeholder date has been inserted solely to maintain chronological coherence for documentation purposes.