Hindu woman deceived by Muslim man posing as a Hindu, raped under pretext of marriage

Case ID : a0492f7 | Location : Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 9 November, 2025

Case ID : a0492f7

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

9 November, 2025

Hindu woman deceived by Muslim man posing as a Hindu, raped under pretext of marriage

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Case Summary

A Hindu woman was deceived and sexually violated by a Muslim man in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. A Muslim man named Rais Khan from Chaman Ganj under the Phaphund police station area trapped her after hiding his real name and calling himself Honey. He lured her into a relationship by giving false promises of marriage and raped her. He continued to exploit her for 13 years and then married another woman. The woman stated that she met him in 2013, and he introduced himself as Honey. He had physical relations with her under the assurance that he would marry her. After one year, she found out that his real name was Rais Khan and he was a Muslim. When she opposed this deception, he again pacified her with the promise of marriage. Years went by, and whenever she demanded marriage, he silenced her with threats that he would leak obscene videos if she insisted. The woman said that on 3 November 2025, Rais called her to his house and introduced her to his father, Mohammad Haleem, his mother and his sister Sweety and again gave her reassurance of marriage. After just three days, Rais married another woman. When she reached his home, she was beaten by the family. She then filed a police report against Rais Khan, his father Mohammad Haleem, his mother and his sister. Additional SP Alok Mishra stated that Rais Khan has been arrested and the case is under investigation.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The 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. Another subcategory under this is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary category under this is: Rape and sexual assault/harassment. In several cases, a Hindu woman and/or minor is sexually harassed and/or assaulted with a religious motive. For example, in a case in Kausambi, UP, a Hindu girl was raped by non-Hindu perpetrators. During the assault, the victim pleaded to 'spare her in the name of Bhagwan'. The perpetrators then asked her to plead in the name of Allah. This clearly indicates a religious motive for the crime and evidences the religious animosity the perpetrators harbored against the victim owing to her religious identity. Such cases would be added to this tertiary category since the religious animosity makes the crime a hate crime. This case has been added to the tracker because the deception used by the Muslim perpetrator directly weaponised religious identity as part of the crime. The victim was not merely deceived as a woman in a personal relationship. She was deceived, specifically as a Hindu woman, by a man who concealed his Muslim identity and presented himself as a Hindu through an invented name. The relationship began on a counterfeit foundation designed to bypass the woman’s religious threshold and to place her psychologically and emotionally in a controlled environment created by the perpetrator. Under the lens of systematic patterns observed across similar cases, this deception cannot be categorised as a neutral romantic lie. The religious identity was the actual deceptive tool used to get access to the woman. This is the core reason this case is categorised as a hate crime with religious motive against a Hindu woman. In such cases, the change of name is not a random cosmetic choice. The choice of a Hindu-sounding name reveals the awareness that the victim would not consent if she knew his real religious identity from the beginning. This confirms the malicious intention. The purpose is to create a conditional relationship entry point that removes her ability to exercise informed consent as a Hindu woman. Therefore, the sexual acts that follow are not consensual. This is categorised as rape. The long duration of thirteen years further demonstrates that the deception was not impulsive or circumstantial. It is an extended programme of exploitation built on the continued manipulation of a Hindu woman. This case also qualifies as a hate crime on the basis of coercive threats. When the victim eventually began to push for marriage after discovering the real identity, the perpetrator’s response was not repentance. Instead, he began using threats of leaking private videos. In the taxonomy of this tracker, this is an escalation that confirms the original malicious motive was not love. It was actually controlled through deception. Threatening to destroy the dignity and social reputation of a Hindu woman if she refuses to comply is an extension of the original religious deception. This shows a clear targeting of the vulnerability of a Hindu woman. This case is also relevant because it displays a secondary layer of institutionalised support from the family of the offender. They participated in reinforcing the final deception during the meeting on 3 November 2025, when the victim was made to believe that the marriage would finally be concluded. Within three days, the same man then proceeded to marry a different woman. When the survivor confronted them, she was subjected to physical assault. This demonstrates that the system of exploitation extended beyond one individual and operated with collective validation in his Muslim family. For the purpose of documentation in Hinduphobia Tracker, such cases serve as an important reference for two reasons. First, they demonstrate the grooming pattern where Hindu women are lured through fabricated Hindu names and pseudo-Hindu identities. Second, they demonstrate that sexual violence is not incidental but becomes a tool of sustained domination over a Hindu woman. In this sense, religious animosity and religious targeting are not symbolic. They are embedded in the very method of crime. This deception remains the starting point that makes the sexual acts illegitimate because the woman did not consent with accurate knowledge about who she was with. That deception is the religious trigger. The threats used to silence her and the beating by his family when she confronted them further confirm the religious hostility and contempt towards the dignity of a Hindu woman. This is why this incident is not simply a crime against a woman. It is a religiously motivated hate crime against a Hindu woman and deserves entry in the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The reference date of 9 November 2013 has been selected as a placeholder starting point for this incident since the survivor stated that the exploitation began in 2013. This date is being used solely for documentation continuity and to maintain chronological clarity in the record. Disclaimer: The number of perpetrators has been recorded as four because the father, mother, and sister of the Muslim man were also involved in the deception and subsequent harm to the Hindu survivor.