Anti-Hindu, communally provocative content promoted by Muslim men belonging to Bareilly's Haidari Dal
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India 
14 June, 2025
Case Summary
In Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, two young Muslim men were arrested for promoting inflammatory content and inciting communal sentiments both online and through offline activities. They were involved with the Islamist vigilante group Haidari Dal. According to Superintendent of Police (City) Manush Pareek, both individuals were actively engaged in furthering the activities of Haidari Dal. Jaish Ahmad, a resident of Baradari, is a student at a private homoeopathy college and also runs a clinic near his home. His clinic served as a hub for the group’s meetings, with members from across the district gathering there to discuss plans and strategies. Ahmad was also providing financial assistance to the organisation. Shanu, a second-year computer science student from Baheri, was found to be operating an Instagram page under the name Haidari Dal. The page disseminated objectionable and communally provocative material, which was intended to incite religious tensions. Both individuals were produced before a magistrate and have been remanded to judicial custody pending further investigation. Haidari Dal is an informal Islamist vigilante group comprising Muslim men who engage in moral policing against interfaith couples involving Muslim women and non-Muslim men by claiming Bhagwa Love Trap conspiracy, a dishonest Islamist counter to international phenomenon of Grooming Jihad or Love Jihad. The Hinduphobia Tracker has previously documented two cases involving Haidari Dal, pointing to a pattern of religiously motivated harassment and vigilantism directed at Hindus in interfaith contexts.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category - Hate Speech against Hindus. The sub-category selected is - Anti-Hindu slurs, mocking faith. Anti-Hindu slurs and the deliberate mocking of the Hindu faith owing to religious animosity involve the usage of derogatory terms, stereotypes, or offensive references to religious practices, symbols, or figures. One of the common anti-Hindu slurs used against Hindus is “cow-worshipper” and “cow piss drinker”. The intention of using this term is to demean and mock Hindus as a group and their religious beliefs since Hindus consider the cow holy. Additionally, some symbols and the slurs attached to them have a historical context that exacerbates the insult, hate, stereotyping, dehumanisation and oppression against Hindus. Cow worship has been used for centuries to denigrate Hindus, insult their faith and oppress Hindus specifically as a religious group. There has been overwhelming documentation about how cow slaughter has been used to persecute Hindus with cow meat being thrown in temples and places of worship. There has also been overwhelming documentation where cow meat (beef) has been force-fed to Hindus to either forcefully convert them to Islam or denigrate their faith. Apart from cow worship, the Swastika – which holds deep religious significance for the Hindus – has also been misinterpreted and distorted to use as a slur against Hindus. Similarly, the worship of the Shivling has been used by supremacist ideologies and religions to denigrate Hindus owing to religious animosity. Such slurs and denigration stem out of inherent animosity and hate towards Hindus and their faith, therefore, it is categorised as hate speech targeted at Hindus specifically owing to their religious identity. This incident involving the arrest of two individuals associated with the Haidari Dal qualifies as a hate crime against Hindus based on the content and intent of their actions. The individuals in question were actively disseminating communally inflammatory and derogatory content through social media platforms under the banner of Haidari Dal, a known Islamist vigilante outfit. The group’s ideology centres on targeting interfaith couples where the woman is Muslim and the man is Hindu, often under the pretext of the fictitious “Bhagwa Love Trap” narrative. This conspiracy theory is a malicious inversion of the well-documented phenomenon of Grooming Jihad or Love Jihad, and is designed specifically to vilify and demonise Hindu men. In this case, police reports confirm that the content posted by the accused was objectionable, provocative, and communally sensitive. Furthermore, Haidari Dal’s ideology and activities—such as public confrontations, moral policing, and the targeting of non-Muslim individuals in interfaith relationships—reflect an organised pattern of religious vigilantism. Given the group’s history of targeting Hindus specifically, and the context in which the content was disseminated, it is clear that the material shared by the accused wasn’t random; it was rooted in an entrenched worldview that views Hinduism as inferior or threatening, and seeks to assert Islamic dominance in social and interfaith spaces. Their propaganda, including online posts and offline activities, was designed to vilify Hindus, portray interfaith relationships as conspiracies, and incite communal tensions. This kind of targeted hate is not just communal mischief—it is Hinduphobia, fuelled by a supremacist ideology that seeks to delegitimise Hindu identity, portray Hindus as aggressors, and justify harassment or moral policing as a religious duty. The goal is not dialogue or protection but control of narrative, community, and public space—by silencing, intimidating, or punishing Hindus who assert their rights or engage freely in interfaith relationships. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that the report does not specify the exact date when the communally sensitive posts were posted. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the arrest of the accused was reported in the media.
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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