On Friday (24th January), Islamists on X (formerly Twitter) peddled fake news about the brutal murder of a Muslim woman by her Hindu husband with the nefarious objective of fuelling the ‘Bhagwa Love Trap (BLT)’ conspiracy theory.
The notorious Islamist handles include ‘Tanvir Rangrez (@virjust18)’ and ‘Adv.Nazneen Akhtar (@NazneenAkhtar23)’. They falsely claimed that the body of a Muslim woman named Gulnaz was chopped and recovered from a refrigerator.
While trying to draw parallels with the Shraddha Walker murder case, the Islamists claimed that the alleged victim Gulnaz was murdered by her Hindu husband Sanjay Patidar.
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) January 25, 2025
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video showing policemen recovering a body from a refrigerator has been circulated with the claim that a Hindu man, Sanjay Patidar, married a Muslim woman named Gulnaz and killed her at a rental property in Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/CQjjdHIzLt
“This is what happens to women who do not listen to their parents and make their own decisions,” remarked Tanvir Rangrez. His tweet was accompanied by a video of policemen investigating the crime scene. The body of a dead woman could be seen in the video.
The incident occurred in Dewas city in Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. The deceased is not Muslim but a Hindu woman named Pratibha Prajapati. She was murdered in March 2024 and her body was kept inside the refrigerator of a rented home.
The perpetrator was none other than her live-in partner Sanjay Patidar. There is no communal angle in the case as insinuated by the Islamist handles of X (formerly Twitter).
INTENT: Propagandists are circulating sensitive videos with misleading claims to set their narrative based on religion. (3/3) pic.twitter.com/NfzZs9XbWR
— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) January 25, 2025
The attempt to give a communal spin to an incident where both the victim and the perpetrator hail from the same Faith is part of the larger ploy to mainstream the ‘Bhagwa Love Trap (BLT)’ conspiracy theory.
Islamists have been making unsubstantiated claims about Hindu men entrapping Muslim women in a ‘love trap’ to convert them to Hinduism.
Despite no evidence to back such allegations, the BLT conspiracy theory has resonated well with radical Muslims on social media. This has translated to real-life incidents of harassment, molestation, moral policing and coordinated attacks on Hindu-Muslim couples.
OpIndia has documented over 100 cases of real-life attacks on Hindu men and their female Muslim partners/ friends by extremists in the name of combating the ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’
