Muslim man carries several ID cards, one in the name of a Hindu, to establish relations with Hindu women
Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India 
4 December, 2024
Case Summary
In the Tejaji Nagar police station area of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a case where a Muslim man with contacts in Pakistan was caught using a Hindu identity to lure Hindu women in relationships. According to police station in-charge Devendra Markam, Hindu Jagran Manch lodged a complaint charging that a Muslim youth had entered Royal Villa Farm House accompanied by Hindu girls. He has been using different names to introduce himself. The Hindu group also raided the place after they learned about a party in the farmhouse, where they found the accused and seized his cell phone after which his long chats and regular conversations with two Pakistani numbers surfaced. The authorities reached the place after they were informed by the Hindu outfit. The cops found four different ID cards on him during the search. When the Hindu outfit questioned him, The offender claimed that he adopted the fake name to gain access to hotel rooms with Hindu girls because he was refused when he used his real identity. The man was found to be in possession of four Aadhaar Cards with different names including Samir Qureshi, Arif Qureshi and Samir Singh. He was also revealed to have contacts in Pakistan. His mobile had chats and calls from Pakistani numbers. He was getting instructions to engage in love jihad from Pakistan and other Muslim countries as well. Numerous images and videos of several Hindu girls engaging in intoxicated antics were stored on his phone.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the primary category 'Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes'. 1 sub-category under the primary category make this case a religiously motivated hate crime. The sub-category being chosen is 'man pretends to be Hindu' under the tertiary categories 'name changed' and 'pattern of targeting Hindu women'. 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. In this case, the Muslim man apprehended by the police after the complaint lodged by the Hindu organisation was carrying several ID cards, one of which, was of a Hindu identity. He admitted that he used this ID card to gain access to hotel rooms with Hindu women. Further, there were compromising images and videos of several Hindu girls found on his phone upon investigation by the Hindu organisations and the police. This establishes that the Muslim man, in touch with Pakistanis, had a pattern of targeting Hindu women by using a false Hindu identity. The fact that the Muslim man was using a fake identity to lure specifically Hindu women indicates that the victims were being selected based on their religious identity and therefore, the crime was driven by religious animosity towards the religious identity of the victims and the aim of disenfranchising the women from their professed faith.
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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