Hindu woman lured into relationship under pretext of marriage, raped and forced to convert to Islam by Muslim politician
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 
30 September, 2024
Case Summary
A woman lawyer was raped in Tonk, Rajasthan, by Kashif Zuberi, the former state general secretary of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party. The victim reported that Zuberi trapped her by giving false assurances of marriage while forcing her to convert her religion. The woman stated that about a year earlier, Zuberi took her to his flat in Jaipur, where he spiked her tea with intoxicants and raped her. When she warned him of filing an FIR, he promised to marry her and thereafter used his influence to continue exploiting her repeatedly. She revealed that during this period she became pregnant but suffered a miscarriage. The victim, who is married and a mother of a ten-year-old child, said that Zuberi manipulated her marital disputes and pressured her to divorce her husband. He also forced her to sign blank papers under the pretext of nikah, changed her name in documents to enable religious conversion, and blackmailed her with private photographs. When the woman confronted Zuberi’s parents on 15 August, they too threatened her and drove her away. She further reported that Zuberi deleted WhatsApp chats, seized important documents, and threatened to kill her child. On 24 September, when she went again to Tonk to reason with him, he threatened to murder her. Terrified, she filed a complaint at Kotwali police station in Tonk, where a zero FIR was registered and later transferred to Jaipur.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory under this is: Forced conversion before marriage. In such cases, a non-Hindu man is in a relationship with a Hindu woman when the pressure to convert her religion begins to manifest. In such cases, typically, two patterns emerge. First, when the relationship is consensual, and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu woman in the relationship, however, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts to force the victim to convert her religion and give up her Hindu religious identity. The second is when the woman gets into a marriage with the man pretending to share her faith. Later, when the truth is revealed, the man starts pressuring the woman to convert her religion and give up her religious identity. In both the situations, the methods used to force the victim to convert her religion often revolve around force-feeding beef, forcing her to wear hijab, forcing her to read the Kalma or even pressurizing the victim to do ‘Nikah’, which is marriage under Islamic law, with a prerequisite being conversion to Islam. Cases where a Hindu woman consensually converts to Islam in a relationship will be left out of the hate crime database, even though it could be argued in several cases that the conversion was a result of religious brainwashing. The other subcategory under this is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary category under this is: Rape and sexual assault/harassment. In our database, we have not added incidents where women have converted to another religion of their free will and no allegations of forced/involuntary conversion have been made. However, there are certain cases of conversion where the consent itself is a result of the brainwashing or grooming of a minor by the non-Hindu perpetrator trying to victimise a woman for her Hindu religious identity. The phenomenon of grooming points to non-Hindu perpetrators identifying their Hindu victims’ vulnerabilities and exploiting them over months and sometimes years, to extract the supposed ‘consent’ in order to convert their religion. In most cases of grooming, the victims are minors or the grooming started when the victim was a minor. In other cases of grooming, the non-Hindu perpetrator brainwashes and grooms a minor victim to extract their trust and then proceeds to rape them repeatedly with the intent of converting them to their faith. It is pertinent to understand here that when the victim is a minor, the ‘consent’ to convert or enter into a romantic relationship with an adult itself is redundant – addressed by POCSO. While every case of conversion of a minor and incidents of establishing a physical relationship with a minor by an adult is a crime, for the purpose of this database, a case would be considered a hate crime only if there is a distinct religious angle to the grooming. For example, in the UK, if a Hindu minor is targeted by Pakistani grooming gangs, it would be considered a hate crime because the victims are specifically targeted owing to their non-Muslim religious identity with the perpetrators being Muslim. In other cases, if a Hindu minor is brainwashed into entering a physical relationship with the non-Hindu adult perpetrator and the family alleges grooming/brainwashing of the minor to convert her religion, it would form a part of this database. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered a hate crime. Another subcategory under this is: Blackmailed to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman is blackmailed to convert her religion, owing to her religious identity of being a Hindu. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim, however, there could be cases where the relationship is not consensual and the non-Hindu man starts blackmailing a Hindu woman to convert her religion. In these cases, it is often seen that the Hindu woman is blackmailed with intimate photos and/or videos, threats of harm to her or her family, threats of violence etc. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. This case has been added to the Hinduphobia Tracker because it bears all the hallmarks of a hate crime rooted in religious targeting, manipulation, and exploitation of a Hindu woman. The victim, a practising lawyer and mother, was vulnerable due to ongoing marital disputes. It was precisely this vulnerability that Kashif Zuberi, a former AIMIM office-bearer, identified and exploited. His actions did not merely involve sexual exploitation under the pretext of marriage; they were systematically interwoven with coercive attempts to dismantle her Hindu identity and impose religious conversion. From the very outset, Zuberi leveraged deceit and force. He drugged and raped the victim, and when confronted, he dangled marriage as bait to silence her and prolong his control. The repeated acts of rape were not isolated physical crimes but instruments of subjugation, binding the victim into a cycle of intimidation and dependency. He extracted signatures on blank papers under the pretext of conducting a nikah and subsequently altered documents to erase her Hindu identity. This was not the behaviour of a man engaged in a private dispute but of an individual consciously utilising his social standing, religious framework, and threats of dishonour to force a Hindu woman to conform to his religious code. The blackmail with private photographs, the threats to harm her child, and the involvement of his family members who themselves issued threats, all point to an orchestrated system of coercion rather than a personal failing. What makes this case distinctly relevant to the Hinduphobia Tracker is that the abuse was inseparable from the demand for religious conversion. The rape, blackmail, and psychological intimidation were all means to an end: to ensure that the victim relinquished her Hindu identity and submitted to his religious framework. The woman’s estrangement from her husband was not incidental; it became the entry point for Zuberi’s manipulation. This is consistent with a broader pattern in which non-Hindu men prey upon Hindu women during periods of familial discord, financial difficulty, or emotional vulnerability. The deliberate use of conversion as a weapon demonstrates that the crime is not merely sexual in nature but ideological and communal, targeting her precisely because she is a Hindu woman whose identity could be coerced into change. The miscarriage she suffered during this ordeal, along with the threats to her child’s life, underscores the extremity of the violence and the depth of psychological terror inflicted. Even when the victim approached Zuberi’s parents for redress, she was met with further threats rather than relief, highlighting a social environment that normalised the coercion of a Hindu woman rather than condemning it. This case has thus been included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because it represents more than the abuse of an individual; it exemplifies a structured pattern in which Hindu women are deliberately targeted for conversion through a combination of sexual violence, psychological manipulation, and blackmail. It is a hate crime because the core motivation is not merely personal gratification or opportunistic exploitation, but the erasure of Hindu religious identity under duress. Disclaimer: It should be noted that the media reports on this case do not provide a precise date for when the victim’s ordeal first began. The earliest reference in the available sources is that the accused took the victim to his flat in Jaipur about a year ago, where the initial assault occurred. Since Hinduphobia Tracker records cases based on when the ordeal commenced rather than the date of formal reporting, we have taken the starting point of the incident as approximately one year prior to the reporting of the incident, i.e., October 1, 2024, since the matter was reported in media on October 1, 2025.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 5 to 10
Perpetrators Gender
both
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