Another interaction with a Muslim service provider, in this case an Apollo Pharmacy employee, has turned hazardous for a young girl.

32-year-old Farman Khan has been arrested by Kota Police in Rajasthan for harassing an 18-year-old NEET Aspirant after she provided her number for billing while buying some medicines from the Apollo Pharmacy store in Jawahar Nagar where he works.

Khan started messaging the girl and sexually harassing her over WhatsApp.

The frightened girl informed the NEET coaching institute where she stays in a hostel. She also decided to made a video describing her unsafe situation and appealed for security as she was staying alone, away from her parents. The video was shared by several social media users which finally led to action by the police and arrest of the accused.

Cases of Hindu girls being contacted, groomed & stalked by Islamists who access their numbers through mobile recharging centers or other means are mushrooming all over the country.

In April, a Hindu girl in Ujjain, MP was stalked and threatened with an acid attack for refusing to chat with Shoaib, an employee of a Maruti Suzuki showroom, who got her number from a job-card after she dropped her vehicle for servicing. The frightened girl approached VHP for protection.

There are innumerable cases of Hindu girls being stalked, harassed and groomed by mobile recharge operators – in fact, the horrific practice of selling mobile numbers of girls from local recharge stores across Uttar Pradesh came to light to cops in 2017. These number are being priced based on the looks of the girls to whom the numbers belong, and consequently are being used by men to harass these girls with repeated calls and obscene pictures. One Mohammed, involved in the racket, described it as “harmless fun”.

Digital safety and security is now a very important thing that all Hindu parents much teach their children, and this message needs to be taken to grassroots by Hindu socio-religious organizations to help those parents who are not tech-savvy. We just cannot depend on the ‘secular’ state to protect our children.

What drives such debased behavior?

Dehumanization of Hindus as kafirs (non-believers, idol-worshippers) and the belief that Hindu girls are easy & legitimate targets for sexual exploitation and/or conversion is a widespread problem within Muslim society, something that our Hinduphobic elites prefer to ignore. Case after case has shown how Hindu and other non-Muslim girls and women are targeted especially for their religion – see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.

Multiple Muslim clerics have been found to be involved in exhorting Muslim youth to target non-Muslim girls. Last year, a teacher in a mosque in Fatehpur was exposed by an elderly member of the same mosque committee itself. Abdul Majeed Khan said that Hafiz Firoze Alam taught Muslim youth to trap girls of other religions for sexual exploitation, conversion and marriage. 

Public naming and shaming of the groomers involved in this evil targeting of young girls is a must. And as our broken law enforcement & criminal justice machinery is failing to keep these criminals in check, it is time for ordinary citizens to form neighborhood watch teams and demand a total reboot of our system.