In May this year, OpIndia reported that a Hindu girl registered a case of violence against her Muslim husband in Lucknow, in which six individuals were named along with some unidentified persons. The named accused other than Saifuddin are Monika, Tabassum Saeed, Najam, Fahim, and Ashifuddin. The victim is originally from Baharaich district in Uttar Pradesh and resides in Lucknow while the main accused Mohammed Saifuddin hails from Bidar in Karnataka.
The victim Ankita Sharma [named changed] had alleged a love jihad conspiracy and claimed that a Karnataka Congress leader Alimuddin was also involved in this nexus. The victim filed a case of forced conversion, sexual assault and torture.
The Hindu woman alleged that she was raped by the accused and forced to marry him after converting to Islam. She was then tricked into having her five-month-old fetus aborted at a hospital in Mumbai. Notably, Saifuddin’s former fiancee and his family members have also been booked for harassing the woman for dowry, pushing her to convert from Hinduism to Islam and committing other offences.
Sharma stated that the two met and grew intimate while working in Bahrain in her complaint filed at Gudamba Police Station in Lucknow and disclosed, “One day, he raped me in Bahrain, and I lodged a rape complaint there. While the matter was under investigation, Mohammed Saifuddin and his family members persuaded me to withdraw the complaint after I became five months pregnant as a result of the rape. They also pressured me to change my religion. Later, on February 13, 2024, I was married to Saifuddin according to Muslim law. In due course, Saifuddin tricked me into visiting Mumbai for a medical consultation, and I was admitted to a hospital where the doctors secretly aborted the five-month-old fetus.”
As reported earlier, the police registered a case for dowry-related harassment against the offenders, including Saifuddin, who is still absconding, as informed by Station House Officer (SHO) Gudamba NK Srivastava. The accused, his 4 brothers and Monika have been booked under IPC sections 498A, 323 and 313.
Saifuddin trapped women by emotionally blackmailing them
The Hindu victim woman said that the accused Mohammed Saifuddin met her as a client in Bahrain. The victim had worked in Bahrain and Dubai for around seven years. The accused began dating her after they had spoken for a few days. He used to drink alcohol mixed with medicines and claimed to be very frustrated with his family members. Saifuddin pretended to have personal problems and eventually persuaded the victim to marry him. The victim alleged that Saifuddin once gave her a sedative and sexually assaulted her. The accused also recorded a video of his crime and used the same to blackmail her.
On the 13th of February, she gave in to his family’s demands and married him while also becoming a Muslim. Saifuddin brought her to Mumbai under the guise of treatment when she was five months pregnant.
Saifuddin sold Indian girls in Gulf countries who ended up doing ‘Mujra’ in bars, says victim
Speaking to ABP News, the Hindu victim woman said, “Saifuddin’s profession is to trap girls in his net by emotionally blackmailing them.” She said that Saifuddin’s targets are from states like Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat. The victim said that Saifuddin lured his victim on the pretext of offering them jobs in beauty parlours and promised other facilities.
The victim asserted that her relationship with Saifuddin was never consensual. The victim who is a Brahmin said that since she refused his marriage proposal saying that in her family inter-caste or inter-religion marriage is not allowed, the accused took it as a challenge.
Besides, the victim said that several people including Muslims and “fake Hindus” from Kerala, Karnataka and Hyderabad are fooling the authorities in Bahrain. She said that they run restaurants where girls are made to do “mujra”. An attempt was made to push the victim into performing Mujra, however, she said that she understood what was happening after she checked the details of the visas Saifuddin took her help with the visa processes. Upon checking, the Hindu victim found that these girls were working in either some restaurant or some bar.
Victim reached the police station in Lucknow and accused the police of inaction
In May this year, the victim made a video in the Gudamba Thana in Lucknow and alleged that the police were deliberately dragging the matter instead of taking action. In the video, she could be heard confronting the police for allegedly not taking her for a medical examination despite 48 hours having passed since the registration of the FIR. She said that an officer Zafar Abbas told her to come for a medical examination, today, the next day, and the next to the next day. She also said that the police earlier told her that the Investigative Officer (IO) of her case was not present, however, the victim turned the mobile camera towards a female officer and said “This Savitri Singh madam…she is my IO…madam many big hospitals are involved in this case…you should think about it.” The police personnel were seen asking the woman not to record the video.
In another video clip recorded by the victim while sitting in a police officer’s cabin, she claimed that the Gudamba Police were pressurising her to drop religious conversion allegations from her case. She named one officer Nagina and claimed that she had asked her to either drop the religious conversion allegation or the police would not accept her FIR.
‘Accused sexually assaulted, humiliated, a Congress leader was involved too’
The victim, in her complaint letter, said that when she went to Saifuddin’s house in Bidar, Karnataka, there was an attempt to kill her. Moreover, the accused attempted to violate her private parts, inserting toe into them, and shredding her clothes. During this time, a Congress leader Alimuddin was also allegedly present. “A Congress leader pulled my Jeans and his brother inserted his toe of feet inside my vagina,” the victim said. She added that when she Police station of a Congress-ruled state to complain against him. Congress leaders misbehaved with her inside the police station.
The victim alleged that Saifuddin’s brother was filming all of these activities. In the midst, his brother approached Ankita and assaulted her. Later, the other brothers of the accused Saifuddin arrived, and Congress leader Mohammad Alimuddin, who was present in the house, said to the woman, ‘Hold her, we will show you [the victim] how rape happens.’ When the Hindu victim began screaming, she was hit and confined to her room. Later, when she attempted to flee the room, one of the brothers approached her and grabbed her chest before asking her to leave without a t-shirt.
The Hindu victim said that she was targeted because she is a Hindu Brahmin girl from Uttar Pradesh. Ankita claims that when she released a video of what happened to her on social media, several women came forward to reveal their similar ordeals.
