List of 60 cases were Hindu women lost their lives after being into a relationship, or being stalked by a Muslim partner over the years, Image Organiser
Since the Shahbad Dairy Murder Case, murders of Hindu girls by their partners in an interfaith relationship have become the talk of the town. It’s not like girls were not getting killed before, now there are hundreds of such cases following a similar pattern.
We bring to you a list of sixty such cases that have been reported from different parts of the country over the years.
Case–1: On May 28 in the evening hours at Rohini’s Shahbad Dairy area a 16-year-old girl was brutally stabbed more than 20 times by her jilted lover right outside her home. The accused identified as Sahil Khan whose picture wearing Kalawa went viral on the internet. The murder was so brutal that even the post-mortem report of the minor Hindu girl made it headlines.
Case–2: On May 18, 2022, 28-year-old Aaftab Poonawala strangled his live-in partner Shraddha over an argument and then proceeded to dismember her body into 35 pieces, allegedly charring her face to hide her identity. A 300-litre fridge was used to store her body parts, which were individually disposed in the Chhatarpur forest over the next 18 days, at around 2 AM every night to avoid suspicion. According to the police officials quoted in media, he stated that even if he is hanged for the murder of Shraddha, he would not be sorry since he will be remembered as a hero when he enters paradise and will be offered ‘Hoors’ in ‘Jannat.’
Case–3: On August 24, 2022, a 16-year-old girl in Delhi’s Sangam Vihar was shot by stalker Ali. He used to follow her for a long time, Ali had concealed his original identity and name to interact with the girl. When the girl came to know that the boy’s religion is different, she completely stopped talking to the boy. Despite this, he kept following the minor.
Case–4: In a brutal incident, a young Hindu girl named Neetu was murdered in cold blood by her friend Layeek Khan also known as Safeeq Khan on refusing his marriage proposal. The incident occurred on February 19, 2021 in the Begum Vihar area in Rohini, North West Delhi.
Case–5: In November 2019, police arrested three men identified as Noman, 30, a resident of Noida, Arman, 26, a resident of Shakurpur Village and Samsad, 30, a resident of New Usmanpur. They have been arrested for allegedly killing a woman and dumping her body after stuffing it in a suitcase in Outer North Delhi’s Bawana area.
Case–6: On May 27, 2023, a pregnant woman Seema Gautam was killed by her live-in partner Mohammad Naved in Shahjahanpur. Before killing her Naved converted Seema to Islam and changed her name to Zoya Siddiqui.
Case–7: On February 14, 2023, Chanda Singh, a widow and mother of two daughters, was trapped by Arif Hussain who took on the identity of Guddu Singh. Hussain strangled Chanda to death after she refused to perform namaz. The incident took place in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi.
Case–8: In November 2021, Varsha Raghuwanshi was killed by her husband Faheem Qureshi. She was called ‘kaafir ki aulaad’ at his house and was forced to cook and eat meat. The case was reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district.
Case–9: In March 2022, a Dail girl was raped and murdered by Mohammad Sahil who took to a hotel. He abused her and made several attempts to rape her. The girl kept on resisting his attempts to sexually assault her. The accused then forcefully poisoned her and abandoned her in the nearby Bijopuri forest area.
Case–10: In March 2022, Mohammad Shakir killed Shushilavati in Uttar Pradesh Bulandshahr. The reason for the murder was the possession of Sushilavati’s flat by the accused. Shakir described himself as influenced by ‘Charles Sobhraj’ of Nepal. During interrogation, Shakir also informed the police about using the Hindu name Rajesh before meeting the victim.
Case–11: On September 14, 2022, Uttar Pradesh police arrested six accused identified as Junaid, Sohail, Arif, Hafeez, Chhote and Karimuddin for raping two Dalit sisters in Lakhimpur Kheri.
Case–12: In November 2022, A man named Mohammed Sufiyan allegedly threw a woman named Nidhi Gupta off the fourth floor of a building for not accepting conversion-nikah with him. In the First Information Report (number 231/2022) filed in the death, the statement by Nidhi’s mother Lakshmi Gupta says that a neighbour named Sufiyan, who is son of Mohammed Raju, used to follow her daughter.
Case–13: In a spine-chilling case, Wasi Ahmed murdered his wife Uma Sharma alias Arfa Fatima by giving her an electric shock on December 22. The police recovered the victim’s body on December 24, 2022, from her bedroom in Lakhimpur Kheri District.
Case–14: In September 2022, National-level kho-kho player Babli Rani (24) was strangled to death in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesg by railway labourer Shahzad (26) after she resisted his attempt to rape her.
Case–15: Nisha, a Hindu woman, was killed by her Muslim husband Dr. Iqbal in October 2021 because she refused to convert to Islam. Iqbal, a father of four who was already married, tricked Nisha by pretending to be a Hindu. When the victim discovered he was actually Muslim, he remarked that each person might practise their own religion. Two daughters belong to the couple. Iqbal, however, began urging Nisha to convert to Islam. The incident was reported from Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
Case–16: In May 2019, a case was reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district, where Shakib and his family had chopped Ekta Deshwal into pieces and buried her in a field. Police arrested Shakib’s brother Musarrat, father Mustakim, sister-in-law Reshma wife Naved, Ismat along with wife Musarrat and fellow villager Ayan who brought them to the forest of the village. Reshma removed all the clothes of Ekta. After this, everyone together severed her hands, legs and head with a bow. The body was buried by digging a pit in the sugarcane field. Her hands, feet and head were thrown into the village pond.
Case–17: In June 2020, Naina Kaur was brutally stabbed to death by stalker Sheru Khan (22) while out shopping with her parents in Ghaziabad, NCR. The main accused was identified as Sheru Khan (22), a resident of Delhi’s Sunder Nagri, police said. “He said he was in love with Naina since the time she used to go to school in Sunder Nagri,” a police officer said.
Case–18: In July 2020, Priya and her daughter were murdered by accused Mohammad Shamshad who introduced himself to her by the name of Amit Gurjar on Facebook. After befriending her and getting into a relationship with her, he murdered the woman & her daughter Kashish and buried their bodies in his drawing room.
Case–19: In July 2020, Priya Soni married Ajaz Ahmed without informing and seeking permission from her family. In September, Ahmed with the help of his friend brutally murdered his wife and beheaded her to hide identity. They then hid the body in the bushes and threw away the head in the bushes 100 meters away. The case was reported from Sonbhadra district of Uttar Prdaesh.
Case–20: In September 2022, a case was reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district where Asif posed as Rajkumar to trap and marry Neha. When the victim found the truth and confronted there began quarrels, within months Asif killed Neha.
Case–21: In October 2019, a case was reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow where Nadeem Khan killed his third wife Seema Soni by slitting her throat. Notably, Nadeem got Seema converted to Islam as her name in the social media profile was Seema Khan.
Case–22: In May 2017, Archana (18) who had eloped with Javed, a married man with three children, died four weeks later due to excessive consumption of some medicines. The man was arrested after Archana’s family alleged foul play.
Case–23: On 4 July 2017, Adnan Khan got his pregnant wife gang-raped by his two friends and then murdered by shooting her in the head at point-blank range. Furthermore, to ensure that she doesn’t survive, he slit her throat with a knife. The two had frequent fights after Adnan took a second wife by performing nikah according to his family’s wishes. The case was reported in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj.
Case–24: In January 2023, a case was reported from Mumbai where a waman named Yashoda became Rubina to marry Mohammad Rehan but was found hanging from the ceiling fan. Notably, Rehana was from Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district, her parents said, Rehan forced her to eat meat.
Case–25: In May 2022, A disturbing case of grooming and murder was reported from Mumbai’s Goregaon West. 23-year-old bakery owner Mohammed Ansari was arrested for brutally killing 18-year-old Hindu girl Sonam Shukla. The girl, residing in Goregaon’s Prem Nagar area, was preparing for her NEET examinations.
Case–26: In September 2022, Ambika was abducted by Zakir and accomplice from Amravati, Maharashtra. Later police arrested Zakir Ahmed and his two aides for abducting and murdering Ambika Maraskolhe.
Case–27: In September 2022, Mohammad Iqbal Sheikh murdered his Hindu wife Rupali Chandanshive (20) by slitting her throat for not following Islamic traditions and demanding a divorce. The incident occurred in the Tilak Nagar/Chembur area of Mumbai. Reports mention that the accused used to force Rupali to wear a burqa and follow Islamic rituals and practices soon after the two got married.
Case–28: In December 2022, a case was reported from Mumbai where a Rajasthani girl was killed by live-in partner Riyaz Khan. The 27-year-old was found dead in Navi Mumbai and her family has accused her live-in partner Riyaz Khan of killing her. This news comes after recently the murder of Shraddha Walkar by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawalla came to light.
Case–30: In December 2020, Mohsin Khan slit the throat of his girlfriend’s grand mother Lakshmi Dhurve. 17-year-old Mohsin Khan brutally killed 70-year-old Laxmi Dhruve and her 10-year-old grandson Yash by slitting their throats at their residence at Hazaripahad, Nagpur, Maharashtra. The heinous act was a fallout of the girl’s family’s objection to Mohsin Khan and their daughter’s alleged friendship, said police.
Case–31: On October 15, 2018, Model Mansi Dixit was murdered and her body was stuffed into a bag by her boyfriend Muzammil Sayyed. The murder took place in Andheri West’s Millat Nagar. Sayyed hit her on the head with a stool and strangled her to death following an argument.
Case–32: In October 2022, Minor girl Rubi Kumari (13) was allegedly raped and murdered by one Sheikh Raja (19). Rubi Kumari’s dead body was recovered from railway tracks near Sheoraphuli (Sheorafuli) rail station in the Hooghly district. Locals and her family members allege that Seikh Raja raped and murdered her. Then they caught Seikh Raja, who a is resident of same area. Angry locals tied him to an electric post and beat him up.
Case–33: In July 2018, Sheikh Sultan shot his girlfriend Subhologna Chakraborty dead after his fake Hindu identity was exposed, which led to the cancellation of their wedding. Things were at an advanced stage and the 35-year-old Subhologna was all set to have a court marriage with Sultan. But then the marriage was called off after the girl’s parents came to know of Sultan’s real identity.
Case–34: In January 2023, Mamta Devi, a married Hindu woman, was murdered by a Muslim man who was insisting her to leave her husband and elope with him. This incident took place in Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district. The deceased’s sister Jaya Devi, as quoted in media reports says, she was murdered by Rocky Baba alias Armaan Khan. Jaya told the media that her sister Mamta was married and she also has a three-year-old daughter.
Case–35: A girl, 14, was found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand’s Dumka in September 2022. She was raped and murdered by Arman Ansari, a construction worker, who has been arrested. Ansari groomed the minor and exploited her for months until she became pregnant, Ansari first murdered her and then hung her from a tree to make it look like suicide.
Case–36: In December 2022, a Sharaddha Walker like incident was reported from Jharkhand where Ribika Pahadin was killed by husband Dildar Ansari and chopped into 50 pieces. Ribika and Dildar were having a love affair for the past two years. They wanted to marry each other but both families were against the alliance, but she eloped and married him. To hide the crime and confuse the police, Dildar also registered a missing person report for his wife Ribika.
Case–37: In October 2022, a minor girl was reportedly murdered by Chand Ansari and his friends in Jharkhand’s Simdega. The victim’s family also alleged that Ansari had first raped and subsequently assaulted her to murder her.
Case–38: In November 2017, Chayanika Kumari (30) was strangled to death by her alleged boyfriend Mirza Rafiqul Haque, a doctor by profession, for refusing to convert to Islam and marry him. After murdering Chayanika, Haque stuffed her body into a suitcase which he left at the Tata Nagar railway station, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
Case–39: In December 2017, a Hindu woman was raped and later murdered by her ‘In-laws’lover’ Adil Ansari’s family as she refused to convert to Islam in Jharkhand’s Bokaro District.
Case–40: In March 2022, Gulbez murdered Ramsa after she refused to undergo nikah (Islamic marriage) against her family’s wishes. The incident was reported from Uttarakhand’s Roorkee.
Case–41: In August 2022, after a 24-day-long investigation, the Nainital police solved the mystery of Anjali Arya’s disappearance and arrested her “lover” Mohammad Yameen Ahmed. The accused had killed Anjali by slitting her throat because she was asking him to marry her after their courtship.
Case–42:In April 2021, Hyder and his two friends, Arif and Farhan murdered a Hindu girl named Nidhi Paswan by slitting her throat with a paper cutter in broad daylight inside her house. The gruesome murder was reported this Saturday from Rourkee near Haridwar in Uttarakhand.
Case–43: In December 2021, Newlywed bride Tanishka Sharma was shot five times by Mohammad Sahil and his friends while she was on her way to her in-law’s place after the wedding ceremony. Sahil had been stalking Tanishka and the situation worsened to the extent that the family made her quit her studies after she passed Class 12.
Case–44: In June 2020, Shivani Khobiyan was killed by her neighbour and stalker Arif Khan who strangulated her in her salon on 26 June 2020 in Haryana’s Kondli. As per reports, Shivani’s family had complained against Arif three years back and he was made to apologize for stalking Shivani back then. Since then, Arif was holding a grudge against them and wanted to avenge his humiliation.
Case–45: In 2020, Nikita Tomar was killed by stalker Taufiq who also kidnapped her in 2017. The shooter, sources said, studied with Tomar till class X and had kidnapped her in 2017 in what police said was a one-sided love affair. The family had lodged an FIR but later withdrew case due to social stigma and to allegedly keep their daughter out of any legal procedure. However, the accused continued to harass her.
Case–46: Ajmer police arrested Arshad Khan and three of his accomplices for their role in the gang rape and murder of a 17-year-old minor Hindu girl in March 2022. Arshad befriended the minor through Instagram.
Case–47: In August 2021, a shocking incident was reported from Kota 26-year-old Rizwana, who was earlier Antima Shekawat, was killed in broad daylight in the middle of the street. Antima was groomed by Imran; then converted, sold for money and killed after 11 years of ‘marriage’.
Case–48: In April 2022, 15-year-old Prachi Rana was brutally murdered in her home in Una District by Asif Mohammed, a newspaper vendor who used to deliver the newspaper to the victim’s home. On April 5, when Prachi was alone in her house, the accused entered the house around 1 PM on the pretext of giving a newspaper bill. After entering the house, he ‘proposed’ to her and tried to molest her. When she resisted, the accused slit her throat and fled the spot.
Case–49: A teenage Hindu girl was raped and killed by 23-year-old Sabir Ali, aka Baba Khan in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district. The incident took place on March 24, 2022, and the accused tried to pass it off as a case of suicide.
Case–50: In December 2022, Shahbaz murdered 21-year-old Neelkusum, janjatiya by birth who had converted to Christianity, by brutally stabbing her 51 times with a screwdriver. The horrific case occurred on December 24 last year in Korba.
Case–51: In November 2019, A woman named Sunita Kushwaha was brutally murdered in Navagarh town in the Janjgir-Champa district. As per reports, the woman had been duped after a long relationship with a man named Zameer Khan and was murdered after she confronted Zameer’s family members.
Case–52: In June 2021, Two minor tribal girls belonging to the indigenous Rabha tribe were found hanging from a tree in a forested area near their native Abhayakuti village in Assam’s Kokrajhar district. The police have taken seven people into custody in connection with the rape and murder of the two minor girls. Of these, at least three are said to be Bengali Muslims. Three of the accused have been identified as Muzammil Sheikh, Nazibul Sheikh and Farouk Rahman.
Case–53: In June 2017, Hindu girl Nagakethana, an MBA student, was stabbed by Muhammad Tanish in Chittoor District’s Chandragiri Mandal in June 2017 after she turned down his marriage proposal.
Case–54: Neelam Ahirwar who converted to Islam and became Afroz Begum after her nikah to Talib died under mysterious circumstances on 6 July 2021 in Chhatarpur. Police began investigations after her family alleged she was murdered.
Case–55: In July 2021, 21-year-old Kashish Parmar’s body was found in a gunny sack lying in a drain in Bhopal’s Khajuri area. As per her maternal uncle, Kashish had gone out to meet Akhtar Ali (33) who brutally murdered her. Ali hit her with a stick, stabbed her, and then packed the dead body in a sack and flung it in a sewer near his house.
Case–56: On 8 February 2023, Prabha Bharti, a police constable from Katihar was shot dead by a man identified as Mohammad Hasan alias Hasan Arshad. The accused had been stalking her for quite some time and was pressurizing her to get married to him. He used to threaten to make her private videos public and ultimately murdered her by firing two bullets into her head.
Case–57: In December 2022, Sheikh Shakeel Miyan murdered a 42-year-old married woman named Neelam Yadav in broad daylight in the middle of a market area on Saturday in the Pirpainti police station area of Bhagalpur district. Miyan was aided in this crime by his brother Mohammed Zuddin. The two men first brutally stabbed Neelam in the back and head, causing her to fall down. They then cut off her hands, ears and breasts and gouged her eyes.
Case–58: In November 2022, Hindu girl Mamta was murdered by a married grooming jihadi Mohammad Shariq (25) at her house at Burail village in Sector 45, Chandigarh. The girl had started avoiding Shariq and blocked him on her phone which incensed the Islamist sexual predator and drove him to murder.
Case–59: On 10 January 2020, Mohammad Shahid murdered his ‘girlfriend’ Munigala Harathi by slitting her throat using a blade on suspicion of infidelity in his home in Hanamkonda in Warangal District.
Case–60: In February 2023, a woman constable was killed by an ex-stalker in Katihar district of Bihar. Her family members have alleged one Mohammad Hasan alias Chhote for the murder saying he was mad at her for breaking up with him.
These are some of the cases out of hundreds available out there. Last week we at Organiser compiled as many as 30 cases where Muslim men have faked their identities or have posed as Hindus to trap women for conversion and Nikah. Find the details here.
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