Hindu girl deceived, befriended and sexually exploited by Muslim youth who lured her under fabricated Hindu identity.

Case ID : 8da19c6 | Location : Bhagalpur, Bihar, India | Date of Incident : Mon, 20 November, 2023

Case ID : 8da19c6

Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

20 November, 2023

Hindu girl deceived, befriended and sexually exploited by Muslim youth who lured her under fabricated Hindu identity.

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Case Summary

In Bhagalpur, Bihar, a Hindu girl was deceived, befriended and sexually exploited by a Muslim youth named Mohammad Faizal, who lured her under a fabricated Hindu identity. According to reports, the victim, a resident of Munger, had been residing in a rented room in the Mashakchak locality, under the Jogsar police station area, for two years while preparing for competitive examinations. During this time, the accused, Faizal, befriended and lured the victim into a relationship by posing as a Hindu man named Rahul. He maintained the deception throughout their relationship of over two years while sexually exploiting her. When neighbours enquired about him, the victim, who was unaware of his real identity, referred to him as her “brother”, which further heightened their suspicions. One day, when Faizal visited the locality again to meet the victim, local residents stopped him and confronted him. Rajesh Kumar Singh of the Dharam Jagran Manch, along with other locals, examined his identification documents, which revealed that his name was in reality Mohammad Faizal and that he was a Muslim. This revelation triggered widespread anger and tension within the community, and police were informed about the incident. Police promptly arrived, detained Faizal, and brought both him and the victim to the station for questioning, while informing her family. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing as to Faizal’s motives for hiding his identity and his actions during the relationship.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within this, the subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category selected 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. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu girl was deceived into a relationship by a Muslim man, who pretended to be Hindu. The perpetrator deliberately concealed his religious identity to initiate and sustain a relationship with a Hindu girl. This itself is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By concealing his true identity, he exploited her trust, targeting her under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate her based on her religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to manipulate and "ensnare" a Hindu individual 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. This is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes. The Hinduphobia tracker has documented multiple cases where non-Hindu men pretended to be Hindu to befriend Hindu women for sexual exploitation or religious conversion. In Bahadarabad, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, a Hindu woman was blackmailed and raped by a Muslim man named Iqbal, who had faked a Hindu identity to entrap her. In Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was deceived and sexually exploited by a Muslim man named Sufian, who impersonated a Hindu man on social media to lure her. In another case in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman, mother of a six-year-old child, was deceived, forcibly converted to Islam, and kept in captivity. The perpetrator, Ehsan Hussain, pretended to be Hindu and trapped her in a fabricated love affair, coerced her into abandoning her faith, renamed her Khushboo Khatun, and forcibly married her before relocating her to Chennai. These incidents collectively highlight a pattern in which Hindu women are specifically targeted through deception for sexual exploitation and religious conversion, underscoring a systematic hostility towards Hindu individuals and their religious beliefs. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that the accused exploited her for over two years. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 11 November 2023, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 11 November 2025, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.