A horrifying case of sexual exploitation, arms smuggling, and child trafficking has surfaced in Rampur after a video of a woman survivor making grave allegations against local clerics went viral on social media. The survivor, who now goes by the name Yashoda but was earlier known as Haalima, has accused clerics of running a full-fledged criminal and exploitation racket under the cover of religion.
Survivor’s heart-wrenching story
Yashoda narrated her ordeal, tracing it back to 1992 when her grandfather was forcibly converted to Islam. What followed, she alleges, was a trail of murders, disappearances, and brutal exploitation:
1. Her grandfather and maternal uncle were killed for money.
2. Her aunts went missing under mysterious circumstances.
3. Her mother was held captive in Nadrabag mosque for 14 years, repeatedly raped by clerics.
4. Her younger sister was beheaded, while another sister, only four years old, was raped.
5. Yashoda herself suffered brutal assaults, she says clerics raped her, inserted guns into her private parts, and used knives to damage her uterus.
Despite this, Yashoda claims she somehow managed to rescue her mother from captivity.
“Girls were given medicines before rape”: Survivor’s explosive interview
In an interview with journalist Ajeet Bharti, Yashoda laid bare disturbing details of the exploitation network. She alleged that Hindu girls were systematically trapped, drugged, raped, trafficked, and even smuggled across borders.
Quoting her testimony: “The girls are given mind-numbing medicines, after which they cannot understand what is happening to them. Even the next day, they cannot realise they have been exploited.”
मस्जिद-मदरसे के भीतर चलते दुष्कर्म एवं अन्य अवैध कृत्य pic.twitter.com/XGTLeetMRr
— Ajeet Bharti (@ajeetbharti) August 22, 2025
She further alleged: “Chintu Imtiyaz Hussain, Asrar, and others supply these girls to foreign countries. They have links with gangs active across the Nepal border. In Nainital, Haldwani, Rudrapur, and especially in Nangaliya of Haldwani, victims of exploitation are still missing.”
Weapons hidden under religious cover
Yashoda also made explosive claims about the Nadrabag mosque.
“Inside the mosque, Imtiyaz and his gang keep boxes with the Quran on top, condoms in the middle, and weapons and ammunition at the bottom.”
Such allegations have intensified calls for a deeper probe into the scale of operations.
Child trafficking network in Badaun
The survivor also detailed the existence of a full-fledged child trafficking racket in Badaun.
She alleged that children were abducted from markets and bus stands, then taken to the homes of Shamseeram (sister of cleric Lateef) and Tahira Begum. These women allegedly ran makeup shops that doubled as hubs for drug distribution and trafficking.
कैसे बच्चों को पकड़ा जाता है, मेक-अप की दुकान से चरस व्यापार pic.twitter.com/qUmX8LT8vn
— Ajeet Bharti (@ajeetbharti) August 22, 2025
According to Yashoda, girls in burqas were used to deliver drugs, and this system has been operating “for years and years.”
Clerics named in the network
The accused, according to Yashoda, include clerics from the Nadrabag mosque: Imteyaz, Irfan Haji, Zakir, Sagun, Israr and several others.
A viral video has further intensified outrage, showing clerics with Yashoda’s mother, Islamic books, and hidden weapons inside the mosque.
Police action after viral video
Though Yashoda says she has been “going from pillar to post” for justice for years, her pleas were often dismissed as a mere land dispute. Local journalists allegedly helped cover up the case due to the political influence of one of the accused clerics.
However, with the viral video sparking public anger, Rampur Police have now registered a fresh FIR. One of the clerics named by the victim has been detained. Authorities say further investigation is underway, with the case showing patterns similar to the notorious Chhangur Baba network, involving sex rackets, forced conversions, trafficking, and foreign funding.
A systematic Jihad?
The survivor asserts that what was long brushed aside as a “land dispute” is in reality a systematic jihad targeting Hindus, involving forced religious conversions, sexual exploitation, child trafficking, and armed criminal networks.
Activists and locals have begun drawing parallels to the Chhangur Baba scandal, urging central agencies to step in, given the international and interstate dimensions of the case.
