Muslim youth poses as a Hindu to trap a Hindu woman, makes her private pictures viral and forces her to convert to Islam when his identity is revealed
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 
1 August, 2023
Case Summary
A Muslim man named Irfan of Lucknow's Rahimabad Shahkheda posed as Rahul to trap a Hindu girl, who is a resident of Beniganj in Hardoi. Two years ago, the victim received a call from an unknown number where the accused, Irfan, introduced himself as Rahul. They started talking frequently and grew close. Later, the accused proposed marriage and the victim accepted his proposal. The girl’s family, however, was against their union. The victim’s father learnt that the man posing as Rahul is actually a Muslim man named Irfan. Upon learning the truth, the girl distanced herself from the accused and stopped talking to him. Irfan, the accused, then learnt through the victim’s friends that the victim’s marriage had been fixed with a Hindu man. Outraged by this, Irfan circulated the girl's private pictures on social media. He additionally forced her to convert to Islam. Consequently, the victim’s marriage was called off. When the victim’s father went to the police station to file a complaint, Irfan’s family members tried to attack him. He was allegedly assaulted when he went to Irfan’s house to confront him over making his daughter’s pictures viral online.
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. In this case, the perpetrator, who is a Muslim, hid his religious identity to ensnare a Hindu girl. Further, he forced her to change her religious identity to Islam pointing towards a crime with his motivations being driven by religious hate. Since the religious motive of the crime is evident from the above facts, this case has been documented as a hate crime.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 2
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
Sources 
