Hindu woman tricked by Muslim man posing as Hindu, forcibly converted and pressured into Nikah
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India 
9 September, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu woman, mother of a six-year-old girl, was deceived, forcefully converted to Islam, and kept in captivity in a case uncovered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The perpetrator, identified as Ehsan Hussain, trapped the woman in a fabricated love affair, coerced her into abandoning her faith, renamed her Khushboo Khatun, and forcibly married her before relocating her to Chennai. The Hindu woman, a resident of Garhi Chaukhandi in Noida and mother of a six-year-old daughter, had met Ehsan, who introduced himself as Raja Mian, while working in the same company. Their friendship developed into a relationship, during which Ehsan concealed his religious identity and promised marriage to gain her trust. Once committed, he pressured her to convert to Islam. When she resisted, she was threatened and ultimately subjected to forced conversion and marriage. Following the marriage, Ehsan and his family took her to Chennai, where she was kept in conditions akin to captivity. Concerned for her safety, her family filed a missing person’s complaint at Sector-39 police station in Noida. Acting swiftly, the police tracked her location using technical evidence and successfully rescued her from Chennai. In her statement, she confirmed she had been tricked and coerced into conversion. The investigation led to the arrest of Ehsan, along with his father and mother, all of whom were found to have orchestrated the crime. A case was registered against them under sections related to forced religious conversion, cheating, and other relevant charges. The three were produced in court and sent to jail, while police continued to investigate whether others were involved in this planned conspiracy.
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. The tertiary category under this is: Forced to do Nikah. 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: 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 pressurising 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. This case is documented in the tracker because it represents a targeted, religiously motivated crime involving deception, forced conversion, and psychological abuse directed at a Hindu woman due to her religious identity. The perpetrator, Ehsan Hussain, deliberately concealed his Muslim identity by assuming a Hindu alias, Raja, as a calculated means to gain the trust of the victim. This initial deception laid the groundwork for further coercion, demonstrating premeditation and a conscious strategy to manipulate and dominate the victim. The renaming of the woman to Khushboo Khatun following her forced conversion was an act of erasure, symbolising the destruction of her religious and cultural identity. In this case, the Muslim man deliberately hid his religious identity to deceive and ensnare the Hindu woman, demonstrating calculated bias and hostility toward her faith. This act of deliberate misrepresentation stripped her of the ability to make informed choices about her relationship and religious future. Once his true identity was revealed, his efforts to pressure her into converting to Islam amounted to a direct assault on her religious freedom and personal autonomy. Such coercion, whether achieved through manipulation, threats, or emotional exploitation, constitutes a serious violation of her right to practise her faith and preserve her cultural and spiritual identity. The deception of posing as a co-religionist, only to later demand she renounce her beliefs, reflects deep contempt for her faith and an intent to impose religious dominance. This behaviour not only seeks to erase her identity but also reinforces notions of religious supremacy and intolerance. The calculated attempt to alter her religious identity through deceit and coercion underscores a profound animosity toward her religion and exemplifies a targeted act of bigotry and hatred. The severity of this case is heightened by the conditions of confinement imposed upon her once she was taken to Chennai. The captivity was not incidental but a deliberate act of control, isolating her from her family and community to enforce compliance. Such acts constitute psychological torture and demonstrate the lengths to which the perpetrator went to subjugate the victim and suppress her autonomy. Equally significant is the active involvement of the perpetrator’s parents. Their participation confirms that the crime was not merely a personal act but one enabled and supported by a wider familial structure, reflecting deep-seated hostility towards the Hindu identity of the victim. The family’s orchestration of the conversion, marriage, and subsequent captivity reflects an entrenched communal mindset in which targeting a Hindu woman for religious conversion is seen as acceptable or even desirable. This case highlights patterns seen in other instances of religiously motivated crimes, where deception is the first weapon employed, followed by systematic pressure to abandon Hindu beliefs. The process culminates in conversion, confinement, and renaming, erasing the woman’s original identity entirely. The active participation of multiple family members underlines how such acts are often not isolated but rooted in a broader ecosystem of prejudice and communal animosity. By forcibly converting and renaming her, the perpetrators did not merely harm her as an individual; they symbolically attacked her Hindu heritage and faith. The deliberate targeting of a Hindu woman, the stripping of her name and identity, and the abuse inflicted upon her demonstrate a form of religious hatred that is both personal and systemic. This qualifies the case as a hate crime motivated by hostility towards Hindus, making its inclusion in the tracker essential to understanding the broader patterns of religiously motivated violence and coercion. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date on which the ordeal of the victim started. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the incident was reported in the media. Disclaimer: The number of victims in this case has been selected as 2 because the woman had a minor child, and that too was directly or indirectly affected by this crime.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 2
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
both
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