Muslim youth pretends to be a Hindu, forces Hindu girl to convert to Islam and marry him, rapes her at gun-point
Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India 
4 February, 2023
Case Summary
In Rasulpur Fatah village of Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, milk vendor Abdul Khalid befriended a Dalit girl by calling himself 'Munna Yadav'. The girl found out that Munna was a Muslim and had faked his identity to lure her into a relationship. Upon learning this, she decided to leave him. Abdul Khalid started pressuring the girl to convert to Islam. He threatened to kill her if she refused. When the victim's family came to know about this, they got her married to someone else. Accused Abdul reached her in-laws' house, put a gun to her head and raped her. He threatened to kill her, her husband and her mother-in-law if she refused to leave her husband, embrace Islam and marry him instead. Upon receiving the victim's complaint, an FIR was registered at the Salon police station. Police arrested Khalid on February 5, 2023.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
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. What gives this case a distinct religious angle is that the Muslim perpetrator actively hid his religion and pretended to be a Hindu to ensnare the Hindu woman. Further, when his real identity was revealed, he inflicted torture and threatened the Hindu victim to convert to Islam. Since the religious motive of the crime is evident from these facts, this case has been documented as a hate crime.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 1
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 0
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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