Minor Hindu girl deceived and sexually assaulted by Muslim man disguising as Hindu on social media
Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India 
11 November, 2025
Case Summary
A Muslim man named Junaid systematically deceived and sexually assaulted a minor Hindu schoolgirl in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, after assuming a fabricated Hindu identity. The perpetrator, originally from Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district, created a fraudulent Instagram profile under the name 'Aryan Rajput' to initiate contact with the victim. Junaid maintained this deceptive persona throughout their digital communications, consistently presenting themselves as Hindu while cultivating an online relationship with the minor. On 12th November 2025, the victim left her residence under the pretext of attending school, but instead met Junaid, who subsequently committed rape. Her family reported her disappearance to local authorities when she failed to return home that evening. Police uncovered Junaid's true religious identity during their digital forensic examination, revealing the deliberate religious concealment. Officials confirmed they were exploring potential 'love jihad' connections given the perpetrator's methodical identity deception to target a Hindu minor. Station House Officer Vikas Kumar verified Junaid's arrest and subsequent judicial remand, confirming the accused faced multiple charges, including rape under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
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: 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 represents a systematic assault upon Hindu identity, beginning with the calculated erasure of the perpetrator's own religious markers to facilitate access to his target. The adoption of a Hindu name constituted more than deception; it represented a predatory strategy that exploits the openness of Hindu society, turning its inherent trust against its most vulnerable members. This methodology demonstrates conscious recognition that direct approaches would fail, requiring instead the donning of a religious disguise to bypass the natural defences of the Hindu community. The selection of a minor reveals deliberate targeting of those least equipped to resist psychological manipulation or comprehend the implications of religious conversion. Her age guaranteed both vulnerability and the legal impossibility of meaningful consent, making her the ideal subject for this form of religious predation. The digital grooming process methodically cultivated false trust, weaponising emotional connection to dismantle religious and cultural safeguards that would otherwise protect her. The sexual violation served as the ultimate instrument of religious humiliation, designed to shatter personal autonomy and demonstrate absolute dominance. This physical act cannot be separated from its religious context; it represented the culmination of a process intended to break the victim's connection to her heritage. Such crimes communicate a terrifying message to the entire Hindu community: that their daughters represent legitimate targets for systematic predation specifically because of their religious identity. This pattern of deception, grooming, and sexual violence forms a recurring blueprint for anti-Hindu persecution, where religious hatred operates through the exploitation of trust and the violation of the most vulnerable. The perpetrator's actions embody a profound contempt for Hindu existence, treating religious identity as something to be systematically dismantled through calculated manipulation rather than respectfully engaged. This case, therefore, stands as a stark manifestation of Hinduphobia, where the very mechanisms of social interaction become weapons in a silent war against Hindu continuity. 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. The earliest date mentioned is November 12, 2025, when she was exually molested by the perpetrator. Since Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began and not when it was reported, we have considered the date of the incident as November 12, 2025, though the media reported the incident on November 24 2025.
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 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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