‘Five nikahs, 3 halalas in 13 Years’: Hindu woman alleges conversion, repeated abuse after being trapped by ‘Naveen’ who was Naved

What began as an online friendship in 2012 turned into what the complainant describes as a 13-year cycle of forced religious conversion, repeated marriages, sexual violence and exploitation spanning multiple cities across North India.

NewsBharati    13-May-2026 13:03:05 PM   
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A 31-year-old Hindu woman from Indore has alleged that she was lured into a relationship by a man posing as “Naveen Rana” on Facebook, only to later discover his identity as Naved from Muzaffarnagar. In a complaint filed at Ankur Vihar Police Station, the woman alleged she was forcibly converted, subjected to five nikahs, three halalas, repeated rape, triple talaq, physical torture and confinement across multiple madrasas over 13 years.
 
What began as an online friendship in 2012 turned into what the complainant describes as a 13-year cycle of forced religious conversion, repeated marriages, sexual violence and exploitation spanning multiple cities across North India.

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According to the FIR and media reports, the woman stated that she met a man identifying himself as “Naveen Rana” on Facebook. A year later, he invited her to Delhi from Indore. However, after reaching Delhi, she was allegedly taken to a madrasa in Falat area of Muzaffarnagar district, where she discovered that “Naveen” was actually Naved.
 
The complainant alleged that she was then confined inside the madrasa and forced to convert to Islam. She claimed she was compelled to wear a burqa, recite Islamic prayers and follow religious practices against her will. Whenever she resisted, she was allegedly beaten and threatened.
 
The woman further alleged that clerics associated with the madrasa network played a central role in keeping her trapped and repeatedly shifting her between different religious institutions in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Rajasthan.
 
Allegations against clerics and madrasas
 
The complainant named several clerics in her FIR, including Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, alleging that they facilitated the forced conversion and subsequent marriages.
 
She alleged that after spending months in a madrasa in Meerut, she was brought back to Muzaffarnagar where her first nikah was forcibly conducted with Maulana Abdur Rehman, who was allegedly much older than her.
 
 
According to her complaint, Abdur Rehman repeatedly raped her and assaulted her brutally whenever she protested. She alleged that she was stripped and beaten and forced to follow strict religious instructions. Within a few months, he allegedly divorced her through triple talaq.
 
Following the divorce, she was allegedly made to undergo iddat for three months before being taken to a madrasa in Jaipur where she claimed she was subjected to halala and sexually assaulted for several days.
 
 
A cycle of nikah, talaq and halala
 
The complainant alleged that in 2015 she was taken to Shamli and married to another man identified as Mudsir. After the nikah, she was shifted to Gujarat. Mudsir reportedly died in 2019.
 
The woman stated that after his death, another cleric allegedly lured her to a madrasa in Shaheen Bagh. From there, she was reportedly taken to Baghpat and married to Khalid Hussain after another halala ritual.
 
She alleged that life in Khalid’s house in Ghaziabad turned violent as his family allegedly objected to accepting her because Khalid was already married. In 2022, Khalid allegedly divorced her through triple talaq.
 
 
However, the woman alleged that Khalid later wanted to remarry her and forced her into yet another halala process. According to the FIR, her fourth nikah was arranged with Khalid’s brother-in-law Fakhruddin. During this period, she alleged that Khalid and his brother Sakib gangraped her.
 
After Fakhruddin allegedly divorced her, she was reportedly told she had become “pure” again and could remarry Khalid. Her fifth nikah was then allegedly conducted with Khalid Hussain.
 
Escape, FIR and arrest
 
The woman eventually managed to escape and approached BJP MLA Nand Kishor for help. With assistance from local leaders, she filed a police complaint on May 5, 2026.
 
The FIR names 16 accused, including Naved alias Naveen Rana, Khalid Hussain, Sakib, Fakhruddin, Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui, Kaari Aslam, Maulana Bilal and several others.
 
Police officials confirmed that accused Khalid Hussain has been arrested and sent to jail, while investigations against the remaining accused are underway.
 
 
Similar allegations from the past
 
The Ghaziabad case has once again brought attention to several controversial cases in recent years involving allegations of forced conversion, concealment of identity, coercive marriages and exploitation linked to religious conversion networks.
 
In 2022, a Hindu woman from Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district filed a police case alleging that the man she had eloped with concealed his Muslim identity and initially presented himself as a Hindu belonging to a Scheduled Caste community.
 
According to the complaint, the couple first married according to Hindu rituals. The woman later alleged that after marriage she discovered his real identity and was subsequently forced to convert to Islam and remarry under Islamic customs.
 
She further alleged that she was made to undergo halala and forced to have sexual relations with a cleric as part of what she described as a “purification ritual.” Police invoked provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act and arrested both the accused husband and the cleric involved.
 
The district administration later demolished the accused’s house under the state government’s anti-mafia campaign.
In 2021, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Umar Gautam and Mufti Jahangir Qasmi in a high-profile alleged illegal religious conversion case. Investigators claimed the syndicate had links across multiple states and targeted economically vulnerable individuals, women and specially-abled persons.
 
 
The Uttar Pradesh Police later alleged that the network had operations spread across nearly two dozen states and involved organised counselling and conversion mechanisms. Investigators claimed vulnerable individuals were allegedly lured through emotional pressure, inducements or marriage-related promises.
 
Similarly, in 2025, UP ATS arrested an alleged aide of “Chhangur Baba,” who investigators described as a key operative in a larger conversion racket. Officials alleged that vulnerable individuals were identified, influenced through monetary inducements and later introduced into organised conversion networks.
 
 
Debate around anti-conversion laws
Cases such as the Ghaziabad FIR continue to fuel political and legal debate around anti-conversion laws enacted in states such as Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
 
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021 criminalises religious conversion through coercion, fraud, misrepresentation, allurement or marriage and includes stringent provisions for cases involving women, minors and mass conversions.
 
Supporters of these laws argue they are necessary to protect vulnerable individuals from organised coercive conversion networks, while critics maintain that consensual interfaith relationships are often wrongly portrayed through communal narratives.
 
The Ghaziabad case is now expected to become one of the most closely watched investigations involving allegations of forced conversion, halala abuse and repeated sexual exploitation in recent years.
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