Trigger Warning: Distressing visuals
A 26-second clip showing police personnel recovering the body of a woman from a refrigerator is being widely circulated on social media platforms. Users have claimed that the remains are of a Muslim woman named Gulnaz, who was murdered by her husband Sanjay. The video is being shared as another case of ‘Bhagwa Love Trap’.
‘Bhagwa Love Trap‘ is a conspiracy theory popular among select groups of Muslims as a counter narrative to the ‘Love Jihad’ claims of the Right Wing. In ‘Bhagwa Love Trap‘, according to the theory’s proponents, Hindu men purposefully lure Muslim women into romantic relationships to coerce them to embrace Hinduism or Sanatan Dharma and move away from Islam.
The clip of the woman’s body being recovered was shared by X (formerly Twitter) account @T_A_backup on January 26. The caption said that the victim, Gulnaz, had converted to Hinduism after marrying Sanjay and threatened to report her parents to the police when they protested. “Gulnaz’s rotting body was later found in a FRIDGE with Sanjay nowhere to be found,” this person added. (Archive)
Another X user, @NazneenAkhtar23, shared the same clip on January 24 with a Hindi caption that said, “The incident is from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. Hindu #Sanjay Patidar and Muslim girl Gulnaz eloped and got married and were living in rented accommodation. The room was locked up for 4 days and when people broke in to check, they found Gulnaz’s dismembered body in the fridge. Now tell me, su/varon (pigs), who is the jihadi?” (Archive)
Others, too, shared the clip with similar claims:
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Taking cue from the social media posts, we first ran a keyword search with the location, Dewas, Madhya Pradesh. This led us to news reports from January 11 on an alleged murder. A report by The Hindu quoting the Dewas police superintendent Puneet Gehlot, said that a woman named Pratibha Prajapati had been found murdered and the accused was her live-in partner, Sanjay Patidar.
The report further said that Patidar was a married man who had been living with Prajapati for the last five years. He allegedly killed her with the help of a friend after she insisted on getting married. A postmortem examination of Prajapati’s body revealed that was killed over seven months ago.
On January 12, The Times Of India reported that Prajapati’s family refused to accept her remains. Her body was later handed over to a community member for her last rites.
The victim’s last name Prajapati, which means ‘progenitor’ or ‘lord of creatures’, has roots in the Hindu tradition and mythology and the community of Prajapatis is affiliated with the Hinduism.
From the above findings, it is clear that there was no communal angle to this crime. Both the accused and the victim belong to the same faith, Hinduism.
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This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Oishani Bhattacharya.
Oishani Bhattacharya | Radio Free (2025-01-28T14:19:12+00:00) Woman’s murder in MP given false communal angle, peddled as ‘Bhagwa love trap’. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2025/01/28/womans-murder-in-mp-given-false-communal-angle-peddled-as-bhagwa-love-trap/
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