Hindu couple harassed, tortured, and humiliated by Muslim police officer for filing complaint against members of the Muslim community

Case ID : a0494c4 | Location : Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 17 November, 2024

Case ID : a0494c4

Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

17 November, 2024

Hindu couple harassed, tortured, and humiliated by Muslim police officer for filing complaint against members of the Muslim community

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save victim

Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

In the Khurja area of Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman and her husband were abused, assaulted, and humiliated by a Muslim police officer, Sub-Inspector Ikram Ali, after they filed a case against four Muslim individuals who had abducted, raped, tortured, and forcibly attempted to convert the Hindu woman. According to the victim, who had been working in a private company, she initially came into contact with one of the accused through Instagram. This man gradually introduced her to the other perpetrators. They kidnapped her, drugged her, and held her hostage. During captivity, she was subjected to brutal torture and physical assault while the perpetrators gang-raped her. They repeatedly pressured her to convert to Islam and forced her to wear a burqa. When she finally managed to escape and approached the police, her suffering only deepened. She filed a complaint detailing her ordeal; however, SI Ikram Ali, who was handling her case, refused to take any action, nor was her medical examination conducted. Meanwhile, her husband had filed a missing persons case while she was in captivity. When the victim was able to contact her husband, he went to the police station and questioned SI Ikram Ali as to why the police had not informed him, since he had also filed a complaint and the victim was now in the police station. Angered by this questioning, SI Ikram Ali assaulted the victim’s husband and verbally abused him, insisting that the victim had gone on her own and was falsely defaming the Muslim community by mentioning conversion. He rhetorically mocked the case, saying, "ek burqa pehna diya to dharm change kr diya iska” (Just because they made her wear a burqa, does that mean her religion is changed). SI Ikram Ali, along with another police officer, subjected the victim and her husband to continuous harassment and physical abuse. In one instance, Ikram Ali called the victim and falsely claimed that a case of fraud had been registered against her husband solely to intimidate her. While interrogating her about the crime, he questioned her in an indecent and humiliating manner, asking where the Muslim perpetrators had touched her. He also demanded a bribe of ₹1.2 lakh to arrest the accused and even forced her to touch his feet to further degrade her. When she managed to arrange only ₹50,000, SI Ikram Ali sexually exploited the victim. The victim's husband sustained serious injuries from the beatings and eventually reached a point where he struggled to walk or sit properly. Due to this harassment, the victim's husband left her, saying that due to her case, he would have to face police brutality and abuse in future. When she tried to approach the senior police officer, she was blocked and threatened with dire consequences and warned that her husband would be framed in a false case. She eventually managed to reach the SSP office with an application. Following her complaint at the Integrated Grievance Redressal System, SI Ikram Ali and his accomplice were suspended, though senior officers said that she had changed her statements multiple times and was unwilling to file a formal written complaint naming the policemen, complicating departmental action. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Attack not resulting in death. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save victim. In several cases, Hindus are attacked for opposing religiously motivated crimes being committed against a fellow Hindu or simply for voicing an opinion opposing radical elements, who either have in the past or continue to persecute Hindus. In such cases, the initial attack against the victim, against which the Hindu was trying to defend the victim, would also need to be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime. Since the initial crime itself was religiously motivated and the subsequent crime of attempting to save the victim or speaking against the radical elements ends up inviting a violent attack, it would also be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime under this category. The other sub-category selected here is - Attack for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu woman and her husband were abused, assaulted, and humiliated by a Muslim police officer after they filed a case against four Muslim individuals who had abducted, raped, tortured, and attempted to forcibly convert the Hindu woman. The conduct of Sub-Inspector Ikram Ali revealed clear communal intent and a deliberate attempt to protect the accused Muslim perpetrators. By degrading, assaulting, and intimidating the Hindu victim and her husband, Ikram Ali sought to shield the Muslim men who had raped her and targeted her for religious conversion. When the victim attempted to seek justice by filing a complaint, Ikram Ali’s response was not that of an impartial police officer; it was that of someone acting to safeguard members of his own religious group. His refusal to act, his hostility towards the victim and her husband, and his attempt to reframe the crime as consensual behaviour were part of a deliberate effort to protect the accused Muslim men rather than deliver justice to a Hindu victim. His actions align with the ideology of the Ummah, in which allegiance to the Muslim community takes precedence over professional duty or justice. Within this framework, loyalty lies with the Muslim community regardless of the nature of the crimes committed by its members. The underlying implication is that a Muslim must always support another Muslim, even if it means suppressing the rights and suffering of a non-Muslim victim. Additionally, Ikram Ali not only abused his authority but also sexually exploited the victim. He forced her to touch his feet, using humiliation as a weapon to break her psychologically and assert dominance. Such actions stem from a mindset of Islamic supremacy, wherein Hindus are viewed as religiously and socially inferior. Thus, the act of forcing her to touch his feet and the sexual exploitation functioned as a punitive display of dominance—targeting not only the individual but the wider Hindu community. Furthermore, by rhetorically mocking the victim’s statements—saying “ek burqa pehna diya to dharm change kar diya iska”—Ikram Ali was not merely dismissing her ordeal but was actively trivialising it and siding with the perpetrators because they belonged to his religious community. His behaviour was rooted in hostility towards the victim’s religious identity and demonstrated clear alignment with the Muslim perpetrators. Since his actions were driven by religious animosity towards the Hindu victim, this case has been added to the 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, though it is mentioned that the incident occurred in November 2024. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date—18 November 2024—as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 18 November 2025, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported. Disclaimer: This case represents the second part of the same incident previously documented in the tracker. While the first entry detailed the abduction, rape, torture, and attempted forced conversion of the Hindu woman by the four Muslim accused, this entry focuses specifically on the subsequent abuse, intimidation, and humiliation inflicted upon the victim and her husband by Sub-Inspector Ikram Ali.