Hindu girl deceived by Muslim man using fake Hindu identity; assaulted, confined and pressured to convert

Case ID : a049495 | Location : Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 12 August, 2025

Case ID : a049495

Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

12 August, 2025

Hindu girl deceived by Muslim man using fake Hindu identity; assaulted, confined and pressured to convert

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Forced conversion before marriage

Assault or threat upon refusal to convert

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Case Summary

A Hindu girl was deceived and exploited in Moradabad’s Majhola area after a man named Aamir Khan alias Yasin introduced himself as a Hindu named Raja and won her trust through phone conversations. She stated that he claimed to be Hindu, used the name Raja, and gradually convinced her to meet him. He then took her away, kept her in different rented houses at various locations, and sexually exploited her by repeatedly promising that he would marry her. Over the years, she gave birth to one son and one daughter, yet he refused to marry her and continued delaying whenever she asked. She told police that he later took her to Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, where she discovered the truth about his identity. She learned that Raja was not Hindu and that his real name was Aamir Khan alias Yasin. When she confronted him, he began assaulting her, pressuring her to convert her religion, and attempting to force her into prostitution. She said the threats and violence increased once she refused to convert. According to her complaint, on 13 August 2025, the accused Aamir Khan, his father Babushah, his mother Sitara, and his sister Hina beat her and kept her confined. She managed to escape from them, return to her home, and obtain medical treatment for her injuries. SP City Kumar Ran Vijay Singh confirmed that Majhola police registered a case against Aamir Khan and his family members. The charges include sexual exploitation on the false promise of marriage, assault, threats to kill, and forcing religious conversion.

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 subcategory 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. 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 selected here 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 pressurizing 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. In such cases, a non-Hindu man marries a Hindu woman, and the force/pressure to convert to any Abrahamic faith, like Islam, begins after marriage. 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. The marriage could be under the Special Marriages Act, where neither parties are required to convert their religion for the marriage to be considered legitimate. While the victim in such cases enters matrimony assuming that religious identity is not a barrier, the non-Hindu man starts to pressure the woman to convert her religion after marriage. 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 situations, there is application of force by the perpetrator, including the denial of the woman’s religious rights. Some of the means by which the woman is forced/pressured to convert include force-feeding beef, being forced to read the Kalma, being forced to wear a hijab, forced to undergo Halala, etc. There are several instances where, after marriage, the woman voluntarily converts to Islam. Such cases are often argued to be a result of religious brainwashing, however, for the purpose of documenting religiously motivated hate crimes, in the absence of the victim complaining of forced conversion, such cases do not form a part of the database. The other subcategory under this is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary category under this 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 the victim’s own testimony shows a clear pattern of deception, exploitation, religious pressure, and violence that was directed at her specifically because she was a Hindu woman, and because the perpetrator sought to alter her religious identity through coercive means. The events described are not limited to a fraudulent relationship or a domestic dispute. They reveal a deliberate plan in which a man concealed his religious identity, created a false Hindu persona, and used that deception to enter the life of a Hindu woman with the long-term objective of controlling her, exploiting her, and ultimately pressuring her to abandon her faith. The victim’s statement makes the initial intention unmistakable. The man introduced himself as a Hindu and selected a Hindu name, not as a casual lie but as a strategic entry point. This deliberate misrepresentation allowed him to bypass natural social safeguards and quickly secure her trust. Once trust was established, he isolated her by taking her to several rented houses, which removed her from the protection of her family and community. The long period during which he moved her across locations shows that the deception was part of a sustained plan rather than an impulsive act. The next stage of the pattern involved sexual exploitation under the continuous promise of marriage. The victim gave birth to two children during this period, yet he never allowed the relationship to formalise. The absence of marriage, in combination with repeated delays, suggests that the promise was used as a tool of control rather than genuine intent. When she eventually discovered that he was not the Hindu man he had claimed to be, the reaction was not an attempt to resolve a misunderstanding but an escalation into assault, intimidation, and religious pressure. The decisive element that places this case within the framework of hate-based targeting is the use of violence and coercion to force the victim to convert. According to her complaint, once she confronted him, the perpetrator demanded that she abandon her religion and adopt his. The pressure to convert was not symbolic. It appeared alongside assaults, confinement, and an attempt to push her into prostitution. This sequence indicates that the coercion was part of a larger system of domination in which her Hindu identity was seen as something to be erased and replaced. The involvement of his family in beating her reinforces that the pressure was collective rather than individual, which heightens the seriousness of the religious targeting. The victim’s eventual need to escape from confinement also demonstrates the degree of threat she faced when resisting conversion. Her escape, medical treatment, and formal complaint constitute direct evidence that she recognised the violence as linked to her refusal to change her religion. Her testimony shows that the religious angle was explicit, repeated, and integral to the abuse. This case is therefore documented because it shows a Hindu woman being deliberately targeted through identity-based deception, held in a prolonged exploitative relationship, and subjected to violent pressure to convert. The religious element is not peripheral but central, and the harm she suffered arose from hostility toward her Hindu identity and an effort to dismantle it. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date when the victim’s exploitation and coercion began. The earliest definite date mentioned is 13 August 2025, when the victim was assaulted and confined by the accused and his family. Since Hinduphobia Tracker documents cases based on when the victim’s ordeal can first be clearly established, we have recorded 13 August 2025 as the incident date, even though the case was reported in the media at a later time.