A shocking case has emerged from Purnia district of Bihar, where a group of Muslims, led by Aftab Khan, have been found entrapping Hindu girls in the sex trade. Aftab was trapping Hindu girls by posing as Ankit Tiwari. Many people including Mausam and Shakib were involved with him. They are also accused of keeping fake Hindu names.
Systematic sex trafficking gang is exposed
According to media reports, 11 minors were rescued in a raid conducted in Katihar Mod area of Purnia on Thursday (January 29, 2025). They were pushed into prostitution. 32 people have been arrested in the police raid. Among them, 6 are men while 26 are women.
A girl rescued from this red light area of Purnia has told the truth about the entire gang to Dainik Bhaskar. The victim has told Dainik Bhaskar that the leader of this gang is Aftab Khan. He had changed his name to Ankit Tiwari. He had bought a Thar car and had also written ‘Jai Bajrang Bali’ on it.
Aftab used to call himself a staunch Hindu with the help of a changed name. After this, he started trapping Hindu girls. He used to lure them into marriage and then force them into prostitution by threatening them. According to the report, three more people were involved in his business. They too had changed their Muslim names and adopted Hindu names.
One of them is Mohammad Shakib, he had changed his name to Rajiv Shah. Shakib used to bring girls from different areas and force them into prostitution. Along with him, Mausam Khan had changed his name to Rishabh Shah. He used to befriend girls through wrong numbers. Then he used to push them into prostitution.
A case of murder of a girl is also registered against Mausam. Similarly, a youth named Guddu Khan is also involved in this whole case. A woman Zubeda is also involved in this whole gang. She has named herself Katrina. These four had adopted Hindu names to mingle with the surrounding Hindu population.
They used to charge up to ₹10,000 per night for making the girls do prostitution. They also sold the girls to other states. The girls were sold for up to ₹5 lakh depending on their beauty. They also bought girls from some brokers.
The police have sent the minor girls rescued in this case to a child reform home. All the rest have been sent to jail. The police have registered an FIR in the case and started action. However, Aftab is still absconding. Raids are being conducted for him.
Pointers for Hindu women and Hindu Samaj: Two-fold problem and solution
These cases are just reflections of the widespread disarray in the Hindu Samaj under the pressure of modernity and secularism. Two aspects are at play in these cases. Firstly, the widespread notions of secularism and ‘equality of all religions’ which is propagated by even Hindu leaders makes Hindu women susceptible to advances by Islamists with ulterior motives. Secondly, the extreme freedom given to Hindu women which makes them give in to their subconscious desire to be under the protection of strong men. A short two-pronged approach is proposed herein to mitigate these two issues:
- Regarding the first aspect, Hindu girls who believe in the goodness of all religions could be easier to deceive by the Islamists making use of pop culture trends such as Hindu women being wives or girlfriends of many Bollywood stars. Hindu Samaj should thus make our women resilient to such notions from a young age by teaching the differences between different religions and cultures. We must teach our youngsters the fallacies and dangers of following certain dangerous elements found in these religions
- The second aspect of extreme freedom is tied to the current modern materialistic view of extreme individualism, which assumes that humans are not related to the society or surroundings in any way. Each individual’s goal is to purely enjoy the pleasures of six senses and accumulate to the maximum extent. To tackle this, Hindu girls need to be educated from an young age about the view of Purusharthas and the Vedic perspective of family values and responsibility of motherhood. Hindu women must also be taught about the dangers involved in social media usage. Modern Hindu women need to be reminded of the glory of motherhood and respect towards husband and family. This would reduce the effect of modernity and provide a psychological and intellectual protection to Hindu women.
Of course, physical protection of Hindu women would require alertness and proactiveness of Hindu men from any harm and dangers which might be lurking in the surroundings. Hindu women must be accompanied by the men of the family when travelling in after hours. Such measures will help in reducing the occurrences of negative incidents at the family level. At the national level strong law and order, and justice system needs to be established to deter the criminals from even considering harming and harassing Hindu women.
Note: The commentary on protecting Hindu women mentioned above is the personal opinion of the author and does not represent the views of HinduPost.
Thanks for your article Jamadagnya, and thanks in advance for Hindu Post to let me comment.
The widespread religiously motivated abuses of Hindus happens due to our own lack of street strength to confront, treat and contain these criminals.
Here are my thoughts on your two purported problems identification:
1. Widespread notions of secularism and ‘equality of all religions’
You did not critically define what you mean by these words. You made them sound hostile. In my understanding, when self-assured missionary/dawah type non-Hindus put some religious or metaphysical argument to a Hindu (constrained with an underlying threat of blasphemy accusation), they would typically feel inadequte to reply and cannot even name the sources of their self-formed concepts. It results in rebellion against your hostile sounding hollow preaching in order to rationalize themselves as fair-minded and not some obstinate stupid. They may even filter out your publication from their scope.
2. Extreme freedom given to Hindu women
This is typical blaming the victims, for our own lack of organizational power to deal with street and other media of bullying/gangsterism/mockery and inadequate grounding of our religious beliefs. Say, if you keep calling an obese person as obese, it only results in that person experiencing an intense rage against you, while you are dreaming that your shallow remonstrations are words of wisdom!
I tried to read Rajiv Malhotra’s book ‘Being Different’ which seems to be written in extremely parochial Hindu vs West style of inferiority complex ridden confrontational discussion which only exacerbates the current Hindu lack of critical discussion (shastrarth in our expression). Even for Hindu and Shraman critical readings in linguistics, arts and archeology, history, philosophy, science and logic, we mostly end up reading western writings on internet and in academic environment ( which ironically these non-plussed Hindus, including Hindu sounding academics, start pointing out with ‘pride’ for self validation and acceptability). Academic literature being taught ends up as what these mostly western writings or their Indian sidekicks describe. In the end a Hindu either seeks their validity in these writings or fights it with emotion but without adequate organizational and/or analytical strengths to justify their own beliefs to all.
Namaste Sir,
It would be great if you could write a piece for us giving suggestions to Hindu Samaj regarding how to deal with the situations faced by them (as in issues cited above plus others). Would make for a good guide/roadmap.
Hello Maitri,
Thanks for your encouraging response to my comments.
Just curious, why would you use phrase like ‘Namaste Sir’ when you do not want to use ‘western’ words like India, Society etc.? While the word Sir is used in West as a formal connotation in official way of communication, people of India have started using this word as an honorific which to me is somewhat disconcerting!
I think Hindu Post is making sincere and brave efforts to bring in light religion based gangsterism, terrorism and bullying of Hindus and others. These crimes which are quite rampant are virtually totally ignored by mainstream media, due mainly because of fear of personal harm due to pervasive mainly Islamic terrorism ecosystem whose tentacles are quite worldwide and which affects both non-muslims and those labeled muslims too. I have no particular concrete suggestions (so not sure if I can create a writeup) on how to deal with the religiously motivated amorphous ecosystem based gangsterism and bullying. But while making brave resistance to it, if Hindu Post editors make effort to eliminate or minimize sexism (like this article’s mahram pontificating and mansplaing intellectually deficient? females), logical fallacies, generalized vague armchair ‘Samaj needs to do it’ solutions (which most of the time seem to be on the spur thoughts), stereotypical or cliched terms (which authors do not care to unambigously define – ‘everbody knows it’), then Hindu Post can be increasingly useful as a record and documentation against not only these criminals but also against hate pedaling, disinformation and terror proganda supporting organizations.
It would be useful if these incidents are documented by Hindu Post reporters too in organized manner at some central place like https://www.hinduphobiatracker.org. It is especially important to also respond verifiably to hate supporting publications which deny the religious angle on such crime patterns. So that a person (the free females!) can reference it while responding to these criminal entrappers.
Namaste Mahoday,
Your suggestions are well-taken. We shall try our best to do what we can.
Appreciate your constructive and such humble take on my reader comments, Maitri. My good wishes to you and Hindu Post.