Aman of Ghaziabad rapes Hindu girl, takes her to Amroha where Maulana Shane Alam forcefully performs Nikah
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 
13 May, 2024
Case Summary
In the Ankur Vihar police station area of UP's Ghaziabad, an 18-year-old Hindu girl lodged a complaint on May 16, 2024, against Aman and Maulana Shane Alam for rape and forceful conversion to Islam. About four months ago, the Hindu girl working in a factory befriended a Muslim coworker named Anam. One day when Anam was absent from work, the Hindu girl visited her house where she encountered Anam's brother, Aman. He raped the girl and began blackmailing her. Aman then took the victim to Amroha, where they met Maulana Shane Alam. The Maulana forced the girl to sign three documents written in Urdu and then married her to Aman according to Islamic customs, changing her name to Kulsum. Aman kept her in an unknown location in Amroha for two months before moving to the DLF area of Ghaziabad. The girl, originally from the Loni area of Ghaziabad, managed to escape to her maternal home on May 14. Aman was arrested on May 17 and put behind bars after she filed a complaint. Maulana Shane Alam, who happened to be Aman's relative, absconded when he heard the news. On June 2, Shane Alam was tracked down and arrested by the police.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The sub-category under 'Predatory Proselytisation' relevant in this case is 'Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion'. Harassment covers a wide range of behaviours of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour that demeans, humiliates, and intimidates a person, including threats and coercion. Harassment and threats, in this case, find their root on discriminatory grounds which has the effect of nullifying a person’s rights or infringing upon his freedom to exercise his right specifically owing to the victim’s religious identity. Verbal and physical threats and psychological or physical harassment are often used against Hindu victims because they choose to practice their professed religion. Religious harassment also includes forced and involuntary conversions by harassment, threats or coercion. Coercion includes intimidatory tactics like force-feeding a Hindu victim beef to convert to another religion, forceful circumcision etc. In several cases documented, non-Hindu perpetrators or those who harbour specific animosity towards Hinduism, harass victims simply based on their religious identity. Such cases often also include harassment to ensure the Hindu victim abandons his/her professed religion and adopts the religion of the perpetrator. In this subcategory, we would only include cases where the victim was harassed, threatened or coerced to convert. Cases where attempts were made to convert but the victim resisted would be documented in another sub-category. Such cases where Hindu victims are harassed to convert to the perpetrator’s religion are rooted in animosity towards the victim’s religious identity and are therefore documented as religiously motivated hate crimes. The details of this case reveal that the Muslim perpetrator, to alienate the Hindu victim from his professed faith inflicted torture on her. She was raped and blackmailed with her private pictures because the perpetrator wanted her to renounce her faith and accept Islam. Since the motivating factor of the crime was the religious identity of the victims and the accused employed violence and intimidation to disenfranchise the victim from it, the case has been included under the sub-category 'harassment, threats, coercion for conversion' within the core category of 'predatory proselytisation'. The other primary category that this case has been added to is 'hate crimes against women in relationship and sexual crimes'. The sub-category relevant to the case is forced conversion before marriage, blackmail to convert and rape for refusal to convert. A hate crime is supposed to have taken place when the perpetrator intentionally targets an individual owing to his/her bias against a certain characteristic of that individual or his/her declared hatred towards that characteristic. A religious hate crime is one where the offence is committed against an individual or a group or an individual or a group of people are targeted specifically because of their religious identity. In cases where religiously motivated hate crimes against Hindu women in relationships are committed, it is seen that the perpetrator targets the victim specifically because of her religious identity of being a Hindu and is therefore a hate crime. In this category, we would also add cases where women have been subjected to sexual crimes owing to religious hate/animosity,, but were not in a relationship with the perpetrator. In such cases, there would have to be a specific marker of religious animosity as a motivation for the crime. For example, grooming young Hindu girls for sexual exploitation with the non-Hindu perpetrator targeting Hindu girls specifically, non-Hindu perpetrator targeting Hindu women as a pattern, or, for example, rape as a weapon used against women with religious hate as the motivation. Since the religious identity of the victim is the primary marker owing to which the perpetrator targeted the victim, it would be considered a religiously motivated hate crime. This case is being added to this primary category even though the woman was not particularly in a relationship with the accused, however, there existed a fiduciary relationship between the victim and the accused and also, the crime being of a sexual nature with the ultimate aim of forced conversion, the case is relevant to the category.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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