Hindu woman doxxed, branded as prostitute by Muslim man; female relatives also targeted in hate-fuelled cyber harassment
North Delhi, Delhi, India 
16 July, 2025
Case Summary
In Delhi, a 38-year-old Hindu woman from Delhi was subjected to over two years of relentless cyberstalking, harassment, and doxxing by a 49-year-old Muslim man, Yasin Shaikh, an auto-rickshaw driver from Pune, Maharashtra. The accused created multiple fake social media profiles to target the victim. He morphed her photographs in obscene ways and shared them with derogatory captions, portraying her falsely as a prostitute. He hacked into her Facebook account, tampered with family photographs, and posted her phone number online with vulgar remarks. In Pune, he wrote her number on public walls and distributed fake escort service posters bearing her details. This led to the victim receiving hundreds of obscene calls from strangers. He also targeted other female members of her family in a similar manner. The sustained harassment left the victim living in fear, humiliation, and social distress. Despite her efforts to block him, the abuse continued. When she finally confronted him, the accused responded, “Your Prime Minister has made our (Muslim) life difficult, so we want to show him what we can do.” During this conversation, the accused confirmed that he was doing this because she was a Hindu. He further threatened her: “We will disgrace all Hindu girls like you so badly that you won’t be able to show your face anywhere. I will make life unbearable for all the women in your family. Unable to bear the abuse any longer, the victim approached the police and filed a complaint. A case was registered under Sections 78 (stalking), 79 (insulting the modesty of a woman), 351 (criminal intimidation), and 356 (defamation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The accused was arrested. During interrogation, Yasin Shaikh confessed to targeting the woman and her family out of resentment. He admitted that he disapproved of an office friendship between the victim’s husband and a female colleague, and after the victim cut all contact with him, he launched his campaign of harassment as an act of revenge.
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 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. The second primary category selected here is: - Hate speech against Hindus. Within it, the sub-category selected is: - Doxxing and harassment of Hindu for religious reasons. Doxxing is the act of making available publicly personal, identifiable information of an individual with the intention of compromising their safety, security and privacy. When doxing is done with religious animosity forming the basis of the intention, it often involves severe consequences like loss of employment, physical harm, physical threat, harassment and/or discrimination for the victim’s religious beliefs. Such doxxing also involves projecting the religious beliefs, affiliations, and rituals of the victim, specifically a Hindu, in a manner that can lead to loss of employment, physical harm, physical threat, harassment and/or discrimination. Apart from doxxing, harassment would also include misrepresentation of an individual's views and religious beliefs that would invite abuse, loss of employment, physical harm, physical threat, harassment and/or discrimination owing to religious hate and animosity. There have been several such instances where religious animosity by one section has led to the doxxing and harassment of Hindus. For example, when a Hindu who worked in the UAE commented on the historical persecution of Hindus at the hands of Muslim invaders, his information was leaked online leading to loss of employment, physical harm, physical threat, harassment and/or discrimination. In another case, a Hindu man’s information was leaked online, leading to violent attacks, after he responded with an emoji to a post about Tipu Sultan, the Islamic tyrant who persecuted Hindus. Such cases are born out of intrinsic religious animosity towards Hindus and therefore, would be considered religiously motivated hate speech. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu woman and her female family members were subjected to targeted harassment, doxxing, and prolonged cyberbullying by a Muslim man. While some may attempt to reduce this to a personal dispute—citing the victim’s husband’s workplace friendship with a woman known to the accused—such explanations ignore the explicit religious motivation behind the abuse. The accused made it clear: she was targeted “because you are a Hindu.” He further stated, “Your Prime Minister has made our life difficult, so we want to show him what we can do,” and threatened to disgrace “all Hindu girls” and make life “unbearable” for the women in her family. This was not an isolated personal vendetta; it was a targeted act of hate against Hindus. The harassment was not directed at the individual alone, but at her identity as a Hindu woman. The accused’s words show ideological contempt not just for the victim, but for Hindu women as a group—reflecting a mindset shaped by religious animosity. His statements reveal a broader pattern of hate, where Hindu individuals, particularly women, are dehumanised and attacked as symbols of an entire community. Such acts are the consequence of a toxic mix of religious supremacism, ideological hatred, and political propaganda. This distorted worldview fuels real-world violence, where ordinary Hindu citizens become soft targets for ideological retribution. This case exemplifies how Hindu women are increasingly being targeted online and offline, not because of personal enmity, but because of who they are—Hindus. Hence, this case is documented in the hate crime database. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that the report does not specify the exact date when the harassment began. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the incident was reported in the media.
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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