Hindu woman lured and sexually exploited by Muslim man faking Hindu identity; investigation revealed targeting of multiple Hindu women
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India 
6 February, 2025
Case Summary
In Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, a Hindu woman was lured, targeted and sexually exploited by a Muslim man who concealed his religious identity by posing as a Hindu man. According to reports, the accused, Aavish Khan, alias Uvez, originally from Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, has been working in the Bagrauda industrial area in Bhopal since 2020. The victim came into contact with him around a year earlier, in 2025. During this time, he befriended the Hindu woman, who had migrated from the Betul district and was residing with her family near the factory, by introducing himself as a Hindu man named Raja. He gradually gained her trust and developed a close relationship with her under this false identity, promising her marriage. He also sexually exploited her and secretly recorded obscene photographs and videos of her. Subsequently, he used these recordings to repeatedly rape and blackmail her by threatening to make the videos public. When the victim discovered his real identity and that he was a Muslim, she began to distance herself from him. However, the accused became enraged and began threatening her even more. Distressed by the situation, the victim approached Hindu organisations for help. Hindu organisation activists, who had already been monitoring his activities, apprehended him while he was with the victim and handed him over to the police. Subsequently, based on the victim's complaint, the police registered an FIR against the accused under sections relating to rape, cheating, criminal intimidation, and provisions of the SC/ST Act. A search of the accused’s mobile phone resulted in the recovery of more than 40 obscene videos and photographs involving multiple women, indicating a pattern of targeting Hindu women by misrepresentation of identity. The accused was arrested, produced before a court, and remanded to judicial custody. All the seized digital devices were sent for forensic examination to identify further victims and ascertain the full extent of the offences.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category selected is- 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. The other subcategory selected is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary category selected 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 a Hindu woman was lured into a relationship and sexually exploited by the Muslim accused, Aavish Khan, who pretended to be Hindu. Firstly, the accused deliberately concealed his religious identity to initiate and sustain a relationship with the Hindu woman. 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 that reflects a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. Secondly, the Muslim accused sexually exploited the victim, recorded obscene videos of her and used those videos to threaten her for further sexual exploitation. These exploitations were not random acts of crime; rather, they functioned as religiously motivated tools aimed at humiliating and dominating a Hindu woman because of her faith. The target was not the victim as an individual, but her Hindu identity. The specific focus on her Hindu identity in the commission of these acts highlights the religious hatred underlying the crime, making it a religiously motivated offence. Thirdly, the recovery of more than 40 obscene videos and photographs of multiple Hindu women from the accused’s mobile phone further established that the offence was not confined to a single victim. Thus, the accused targeted multiple Hindu women in a similar way. This demonstrated a systematic modus operandi in which the accused concealed his religious identity, initiated relationships under false pretences, sexually exploited Hindu women, and preserved the material for coercion, control, and continued abuse. The targeting of multiple Hindu women using the same deceptive strategy underscored a broader pattern of religiously motivated exploitation, reinforcing that the victim’s Hindu identity was a central factor in the selection and abuse of victims and that the acts constituted a sustained campaign of hostility and domination directed at Hindu women This is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes. 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. 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 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. Disclaimer: While this tracker acknowledges that the accused targeted multiple Hindu women, as evidenced by the recovery of numerous obscene videos and photographs, only one victim has formally come forward and filed a complaint. Accordingly, for the purpose of this documentation, the victim count has been recorded as one. 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 victim came into contact with the accused in 2025. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 7 February 2025, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 7 February 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 1
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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