Hindu girl deceived, harassed and sexually exploited by Muslim man feigning Hindu identity

Case ID : a049275 | Location : Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Mon, 6 October, 2025

Case ID : a049275

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

6 October, 2025

Hindu girl deceived, harassed and sexually exploited by Muslim man feigning Hindu identity

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Marries as per Hindu rituals

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Case Summary

In the Krishnanagar area of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu girl was deceived and sexually exploited by a Muslim man named Suhel Siddiqui, who pretended to be a Hindu. According to reports, the victim, a graduate student living in the Krishnanagar area, was befriended by the accused, who deceived her into a relationship by introducing himself as a Hindu man named Mishra. Over time, the two grew close, during which the accused took objectionable photographs of the victim. This made the victim suspicious, prompting her to inquire about him. She later discovered that the accused’s real name was, in fact, Suhel Siddiqui—a resident of Balaganj, Thakurganj, who owned a car sales shop at Dubagga intersection—and that he was a Muslim. After learning the truth, she ended all contact with him. Enraged by her decision, the accused began to blackmail her by threatening to leak her photographs publicly and repeatedly pressured her into a physical relationship. He frequently visited her home, harassed her, and issued threats to her and her family. The victim also revealed that he regularly stalked her, sexually molested her on several occasions and threatened to kill her when she resisted his advances. On the night of 7 October 2025, when the victim was returning home from VIP Road, Alambagh, the accused intercepted her, forcibly grabbed her and took her to a secluded area. He then sexually molested her and assaulted her when she resisted. She somehow managed to escape and ran home, where she informed her mother of the incident. Her family immediately approached the Krishnanagar police station and filed a written complaint against the accused, but no action was taken. As the harassment continued and fear prevented her from leaving her home, the victim and her family escalated the matter by submitting a complaint to Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Nipun Agarwal. Subsequently, Krishnanagar police registered a formal case against the accused. ACP Krishnanagar Rajneesh Verma confirmed that efforts were underway to locate and apprehend the accused, and the matter was placed under active investigation.

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 in this case 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 other subcategory selected in this case is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary category selected 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 a hate crime. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu girl was lured into a relationship by the Muslim accused, who pretended to be Hindu. He then obtained her pictures through which he blackmailed her and sexually exploited her. Firstly, 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. This reflects a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. Secondly, when the accused’s true identity was revealed, he began blackmailing the victim for sexual exploitation. He harassed her, stalked her, sexually molested and assaulted her. This was not a random act of sexual abuse; it was a targeted assault driven by religious bias, aimed at singling out and violating a Hindu girl because of her religious identity. Such acts of exploitation through manipulation and religious deception clearly underline the religiously motivated nature of this crime. 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. For example, 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 a similar case, from 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. Therefore, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. 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 7 October 2025, when she was sexually molested by the accused while she was returning to her home from VIP road. 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 7 October 2025, though the media reported the incident on 5 November 2025. It is important to note here that the news portal Live Hindustan mentions the date of the incident—when the victim was sexually molested while returning home—as 7 October 2025, whereas the news portal Hindi Samna reports it as 27 October 2025. The discrepancy in reported dates has been noted, and for the purpose of documentation, the earliest date has been recorded as the date of the incident.