Drugged, raped, forced to convert: Sex racket run by Bhopal sisters busted
India Today
A sex racket run by two sisters in Bhopal, where vulnerable women were lured with the promise of jobs, and then drugged and raped, has been busted by the police. That's not all. One of the survivors claimed she was forced to convert and threatened when she resisted.
Two separate complaints by a beautician and a woman have opened a can of worms into an alleged sex and religious conversion racket run by two sisters and their gang in Bhopal. The racket was busted after the women, a 21-year-old from Chhattisgarh and a 30-year-old from Bhopal, approached the police with strikingly similar stories -- lured with the promise of jobs, then drugged, raped, and forced to convert. While the sisters, Afreen and Amreen, have been arrested, three others are on the run.
The modus operandi of the gang involved targeting vulnerable girls from economically weaker backgrounds, luring them with the promise of jobs, gaining their trust and then sexually exploiting them. The trauma for the 21-year-old beautician, who shared her room with Amreen, started in November 2025. In her complaint, she said that in November, Amreen took her to Abbas Nagar in Bhopal to meet her relatives.
Little did she anticipate the horror that would unfold later. There, she claimed that Amreen's brother, Bilal, mixed an intoxicant in her tea and raped her while she was unconscious.
The next month, Amreen took her to Ahmedabad on the pretext of personal work. There, she was introduced to a man named Yasir, who allegedly raped her as well. She alleged that Chandan Yadav, a close aide of Amreen, also sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions between August 2025 and January 2026.
The survivor claimed she was threatened when she resisted and was blackmailed with photos taken in compromising positions. The ordeal, however, did not stop there. Over the next few weeks, she claimed she was forced to wear revealing and short clothes and taken to pubs to interact with affluent men.
There, the beautician claimed, she was forced to consume drugs. On several instances, she was sexually assaulted.
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