Hindu girls in Bhopal drugged, raped, trafficked, forced to convert and forced into sexual slavery by Muslim grooming gang
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India 
17 July, 2025
Case Summary
In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, multiple Hindu girls were targeted for sexual abuse, drug entrapment, and trafficking by two Muslim men named Yasin and Shahwar. According to reports, Yasin (who worked as a DJ) and his uncle Shahwar were active in the city’s party and club scene. But behind the scenes, they were running a well-organised drug and sex trafficking racket specifically targeting Hindu girls from affluent families. Their modus operandi was deliberate and systematic: Hindu girls were first lured into party culture with free MD drugs, marijuana, and hashish under the guise of social gatherings. Once the girls developed an addiction, the accused would rape them, film the abuse, and use the videos to blackmail them into continued sexual exploitation. The Hindu girls were effectively made sex slaves by the Muslim accused. They were also forced to attend so-called pool parties where they were offered to other men for sexual exploitation. If any girl resisted or tried to escape, she was subjected to brutal violence. In one of the videos found on their phone, girls were seen being brutally beaten on their private parts. The drug and sexual abuse racket was busted when two Muslim drug peddlers named Saifuddin and Shahrukh were arrested by the police. Both of them used to supply drugs at the clubs and parties in the city. During interrogation, they confessed to making Hindu youth addicted to drugs under the pretext of fitness and party culture and admitted sourcing these drugs from Yasin and Shahwar. Based on this lead, police arrested the two main accused and recovered 22 explicit videos from their phones, along with drugs, weapons, and vehicles used in the operation. During police interrogation, it was also revealed that Yasin was planning a drug-fueled party on August 2, specifically targeting Hindu girls. Drugs were stockpiled, and social media promotions were launched to attract young participants. The accused also had ties to other drug peddlers, Saifuddin and Shahrukh, who also admitted that Hindu girls were systematically drugged, raped, and then kept under control using explicit video blackmail. Importantly, National Human Rights Commission member Priyank Kanungo confirmed the religious and ideological motive behind the crime. He wrote on X, “Targeting Hindu girls studying in schools and colleges and making them addicted to drugs in the name of parties, raping them and making videos, blackmailing them through the videos and gang-raping them and then keeping them as sex slaves for life by pressuring them to convert.” As of the date of this report, the investigation was ongoing.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of Attack not resulting in death. Within it, the sub-category selected is: - Attack for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. The second primary category selected here is: - Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected is: - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, with the tertiary sub-category being: - Rape and sexual assault/harassment and Pattern of targeting Hindus. Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting regimented ideas. Religious grooming or brainwashing also involves propaganda and manipulation. It involves the systematic effort, driven by religious malice and indoctrination, to persuade “non-believers’ to accept allegiance, command, or doctrine to and of a contrasting faith. Cases of such grooming or brainwashing are far more nuanced than direct threats, coercion, inducement and violence. In such cases, it is often seen that there is repeated, subtle and continual manipulation of the victim to induce disaffection towards their own faith and acceptance of the contrasting faith of the perpetrator. While subtle indoctrination is widely acknowledged as predatory, an element which is often understated in such conversions or the attempts of such conversion is the role of loyalty and trust which might develop between the perpetrator and the victim. Fiduciary relationships are often abused to affect such religious conversion. For example, an educator transmitting religious doctrine of a competing faith to a Hindu student. The Hindu student is likely to accept what the teacher is transmitting owing to existence of the fiduciary relationship. The exploitation of the fiduciary relationship to religiously indoctrinate victims would also be included in this category. Since the underlying animosity towards the victim’s faith forms the basis of predatory proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. This case is a textbook example of a religiously motivated hate crime targeting Hindu girls for sexual abuse and trafficking by Muslim perpetrators. The pattern of targeting was clear: only Hindu girls, especially from affluent families, were chosen. They were lured into drug addiction and then subjected to rape, blackmail, and repeated sexual exploitation. They were brutally assaulted and turned into sex slaves or prostitutes. The motive was not merely personal gratification or financial gain; it was religious animosity towards Hinduism and Hindu identity. The use of drugs, blackmail, and sexual violence was not just a method of control but a calculated strategy to strip the victims of their willpower and ability to resist—ultimately, to convert them. As NHRC member Priyank Kanungo pointed out, all these acts of abuse were carried out with the intent to convert the victims to Islam. His acknowledgement that the girls were being "kept as sex slaves for life by pressuring them to convert" confirms that the motive was not only criminal but deeply ideological and religious. This is on the line of a pattern observed in cases of predatory proselytisation, where victims are first lured, then isolated from their faith and community, weakened through addiction and emotional manipulation, and finally subjected to religious conversion. Even if formal conversion did not occur in every case, the underlying motive remained the subjugation and psychological domination of the Hindu female. Such cases are never just about individual exploitation—they are part of a larger ideological campaign of subjugation. Hindu girls are not viewed as mere individuals, but as symbolic representatives of their community, a community that must be degraded, violated, and humiliated through its women. This was not opportunistic criminality; it is communal hatred expressed through gendered violence. These girls were made sex slaves precisely because they were considered religiously inferior due to their Hindu identity. If these girls had not been Hindu, they would not have been selected, lured, or abused in this specific manner. That selectiveness is what transforms the crime from exploitation into communal hatred, manifesting through gendered violence. This case must therefore be recorded as both a hate crime and a case of predatory proselytisation. It is not only about what happened to the girls, but why it happened. And the answer to “why” lies entirely in their Hindu identity. The targeting was not random. It was doctrinal, ideological, and communal. Therefore, this case is categorised as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that the report does not specify the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, but it mentions that two of the accused were arrested on 18th July, 2025. Since this is the earliest date mentioned, we are considering this as when the victim's ordeal began and using this as the incident date. While media coverage of the incident emerged later, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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