Hindu girl driven to suicide by Muslim man faking Hindu identity who raped and blackmailed her

Case ID : d327257 | Location : Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 20 January, 2026

Case ID : d327257

Srinagar, Uttarakhand, India

20 January, 2026

Hindu girl driven to suicide by Muslim man faking Hindu identity who raped and blackmailed her

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

In Srinagar of Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, a Hindu girl was deceived, sexually exploited and blackmailed by a Muslim youth named Sameer Jafri, who pretended to be Hindu. According to reports, the accused, Sameer Jafri, a resident of Jatpura village in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, was residing in Srinagar, studying at the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University. He concealed his religious identity and used a Hindu Brahmin name to entrap a Hindu girl, studying at the same university as the accused. He introduced himself as “Sameer Dwivedi” and cultivated a relationship with the Hindu girl through social media. He gradually gained her trust under the false pretext of marriage, after which he raped her in a private room. He also took obscene photos and videos of her, then subjected her to sustained mental harassment. He demanded money from her by threatening to make her private photos and videos viral. The prolonged intimidation, harassment and psychological pressure left the victim severely distressed, due to which she also attempted suicide. The matter came to light after former District Panchayat member Lakhpat Bhandari intervened, citing documentary and digital evidence, and accompanied the victim to the police station to demand strict action. An FIR was registered on 21 January 2026 at Kotwali Srinagar under sections related to rape, deception under false promise of marriage, criminal intimidation, and blackmail, after which the police arrested Sameer Jafri and took him into custody. Police began an investigation into the incident, examining digital evidence, including photographs, videos, messages, and call records, while recording the victim's statement.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been documented under the primary category: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Under this, the selected secondary category is: Man pretends to be Hindu. Under this, the selected tertiary category 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 selected secondary category is: Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary categories selected are: '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 deliberately deceived, sexually exploited, and blackmailed by a Muslim man who concealed his religious identity and used a Hindu name to target her. Firstly, the accused 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, the subsequent sexual assault, followed by systematic blackmail using private photographs and videos, demonstrates that the deception served as a gateway to sustained coercion and control. The misuse of a Hindu identity to access, exploit, and intimidate a Hindu woman reflects targeted exploitation rooted in religious animosity. This exploitation were not random acts of crime; rather, they functioned as religiously motivated tools aimed at humiliating, and dominating a Hindu girl because of her faith. The target was not the victim as an individual, but the her Hindu identity. The prolonged harassment and intimidation inflicted severe psychological harm on the victim, pushing her into extreme distress, including a suicide attempt. The deliberate targeting of a Hindu woman through religious deception, followed by sexual violence and blackmail, establishes this case as a religiously motivated crime involving identity fraud, sexual exploitation, and humiliation of a Hindu victim based on her faith. This is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes targeting Hindu women. 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: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when the crime occurs or when the victim’s ordeal began, rather than when it is reported by the media. In this case, the reports do not specify when the victim came into contact with the accused; therefore, the date of the incident has been recorded as 21 January 2026, the date when the FIR was registered.