Multiple Hindu women, including minors, trapped, blackmailed and sexually exploited by Muslim gang using fake Hindu identities; modus operandi similar to Chhangur Baba’s conversion network
Kemri, Uttar Pradesh, India 
29 August, 2025
Case Summary
In Kemri, Rampur, multiple Hindu women, including minors, were targeted and sexually exploited by a Muslim gang led by Chand Guddu, using fake Hindu identities. According to reports, the accused would target Hindu girls through social media by concealing their religious identity and pretending to be Hindu men. Along with Chand Guddu, the gang also included Navi Ahmed and Farman Shah. They trapped women, including minors, in love relationships and sexually exploited them. They also blackmailed their victims by recording obscene videos and pictures to continue to sexually exploit them. They maintained multiple fake documents, including Aadhar cards, job cards, and passbooks, so as to lend credibility to their fake Hindu identity. District President of Go Raksha Seva Samiti (a Hindu organisation), Amit Gangwar, gave a complaint to the police on September 3, 2025, in this regard and stated that it was a strong possibility that the gang had access to foreign funding and was linked to Chhangur Baba's gang, which was involved in the religious conversion of Hindu women. Based on the complaint, the police initiated an investigation into the case and arrested Chand Guddu, while the other two were absconding. The police also recovered six fake Aadhaar cards from his possession. During interrogation, Chand Guddu admitted to his crimes, stating that he had been deceiving Hindu women by changing his name, calling them, establishing physical relations, and making videos to blackmail them further. The police confirmed that strict action would be taken against him, while the investigation was ongoing regarding their possible connections to wider conversion networks. It is pertinent to note that the complainant indicated that there was a strong possibility that the accused were linked to Chhangur Baba, who ran a larger religious conversion across Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh ATS (Anti-Terrorism Squad) had dismantled this organised network, uncovering its systematic operation aimed at targeting and converting Hindu individuals, particularly women and minors, to Islam. According to the investigation, Chhangur Baba provided financial incentives to Muslim men to lure Hindu women, often under false identities by posing as Hindus, and then pressured them into conversion. Once converted, these women were married off through Nikah ceremonies arranged by Chhangur Baba himself. Authorities also discovered that Chhangur Baba had published a book titled Shijra-e-Tayyaba, intended as a manual to propagate Islam. The ATS investigation revealed that his network operated on a structured incentive model: Rs15–16 lakh was paid for converting Brahmin, Sikh, or Kshatriya women; Rs10–12 lakh for OBC women; and Rs8–10 lakh for those from other castes. He, along with his wife, was arrested on 5th July 2025. The ATS confirmed that the gang had received nearly Rs100 crore in foreign funds to facilitate these illegal conversions across India. Members of his own family were reportedly involved in the operation. The Hinduphobia Tracker has documented multiple cases involving Chhangur Baba. In all these cases, Hindu victims were religiously profiled, deliberately targeted because of their religious identity. They were forced to convert to Islam through the use of force, deception, harassment, incentives, and intimidation. In the first case, Chhangur encouraged a Muslim man named Meraj to lure a Hindu woman named Aarti by posing as a Hindu. Afterwards, Chhangur, along with Meraj, forcibly converted her to Islam and conducted her Nikah according to Islamic customs. Another case involved a Hindu man named Harjeet, who was forcibly converted to Islam by Chhangur. The accused had offered Harjeet incentives and subjected him to harassment and had filed false cases against him in an attempt to persuade him to convert to Islam. Similarly, in another case, in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu man named Sanchit and his wife were lured to convert to Islam with incentives by the Muslim Peer Chhangur. Both victims were also subjected to death threats and were harassed with false cases for refusing to convert. Another such instance was reported in Faridabad, Haryana, where a minor Hindu girl was brainwashed and forcibly converted to Islam by her Muslim neighbours who were part of a Muslim gang run by the Muslim peer Chhangur. After her conversion, her Hindu identity was erased; she was given a Muslim name, compelled to wear a burqa, forced to perform Islamic rituals, and fed meat against her beliefs. She was horrifically exploited sexually, blackmailed using obscene videos, and pushed into prostitution. In another such case, a Hindu woman from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, was lured into a relationship by a Muslim man. The accused pretended to be Hindu and had manipulated and brainwashed her into converting to Islam. The victim had been missing since 2019. The accused was also linked to the Islamic cleric Peer Chhangur. In another such case, a Hindu woman named Rashmi (name changed) from Karnataka was trafficked to Saudi Arabia and subjected to years of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse as part of a systematic religious conversion racket operated under the influence of Islamic Peer Jalaluddin alias Chhangur Baba. Under false pretences of marriage and employment, the woman was entrapped, manipulated, and eventually transported across international borders. In another such case, in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was lured into a romantic relationship and subsequently married by a Muslim man named Tabish Asgar. The accused had posed as a Hindu youth while deceiving the woman into a relationship and married her as per Hindu rituals. After marriage, the accused exerted pressure on the victim to renounce Hinduism and adopt Islam, but was not successful. He then took her to Muslim Peer Chhangur alias Jalaluddin, who is known for converting several Hindus to Islam by use of force, deception, and coercion. There, she was also coerced and enticed with incentives to adopt Islam. In another case, in Ranipokhari, Uttarakhand, a young Hindu woman became the target of an organised Muslim conversion gang who attempted to forcibly convert her to Islam through online grooming, emotional pressure, and inducements. This conversion gang was connected to Chhangur Peer.
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 and Pattern of targeting Hindu women. 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 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 category being - Pattern of targeting Hindus and 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 a hate crime. This case has been added to the tracker because multiple Hindu women were lured into relationships and sexually exploited by two Muslim accused, who assumed fake Hindu identities. The perpetrators deliberately concealed their religious identity to initiate and sustain relationships with Hindu women. This is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victims’ religion. By concealing their true identity, they exploited the trust of the victims, targeting them under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate the women specifically based on their religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to ensnare Hindu women is not only an act of personal betrayal but also an expression of disdain and disregard for Hinduism and its customs, reflecting a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. Furthermore, the accused also targeted minors, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They may not have the ability to fully understand the implications of getting into a relationship or converting to another religion, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. Additionally, any supposed consent given by the minor is also invalid under the POCSO Act. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation of minor girls, it is a blatant act of religious hate, which is also why it has been documented here in the hate tracker. The fact that the accused specifically targeted Hindu girls constitutes religious profiling. Such actions are rooted in religious animosity towards Hinduism and Hindus. This pattern of targeting multiple Hindu girls underscores that the crime was not an isolated incident but a calculated and premeditated effort against her for being Hindu. His links to foreign funding and conversion racket further demonstrate that his actions were systematic rather than spontaneous. Furthermore, the complainant highlighted the possibility that the accused were connected to Chhangur Baba’s organised conversion racket — a criminal network that systematically profiles Hindu women, entraps them through deceitful romantic involvement, and then coerces or manipulates them into adopting Islam. The modus operandi of the accused was strikingly similar to that of Chhangur Baba’s organised conversion racket, which the complainant also highlighted. This similarity strongly suggests that the accused were connected to, or at least operating within, the same wider conspiracy against Hindus driven by religious animosity. The involvement of an extremist religious conversion network underscores religious animosity as a driving motive behind the crime. Additionally, this pattern of targeting multiple Hindu girls underscores that the crime was not an isolated incident but a calculated and premeditated effort against her for being Hindu. His involvement in a conversion racket further demonstrates that his actions were systematic rather than spontaneous. It is important to recognise that Chhangur Baba’s gang represents not just individual criminal acts, but a manifestation of a larger ideological campaign aimed at the gradual Islamisation of India. This agenda seeks to weaken Hindu identity and alter the country’s demographic and cultural fabric. Muslim extremists often harbour deep-seated animosity towards Hindus and perceive India’s Hindu collectivity as something to be dismantled or subdued. The ideological roots of this mindset can be traced back to the Partition of India, which was founded on the belief that Islam was a separate nation that could not coexist with a Hindu civilisation. Historically, Islamic expansion has not always relied solely on military conquest but has also advanced through psychological coercion, forced conversions, and cultural erasure. The Kemri case reflects the continuation of that same mindset in modern forms, where deception, exploitation, and religious targeting are employed as instruments of ideological warfare. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when the victim’s ordeal began. However, in this case, the report does not provide specific details regarding when the accused trapped his victims. Therefore, for documentation purposes, the date of the incident has been recorded as the date when the complaint was filed - August 30, 2025.
Case Status
Case sub-judice
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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