Hindu woman coerced to convert to Islam by Muslim man, leaked her objectionable photographs on social media upon refusal to convert
Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India 
24 March, 2022
Case Summary
A Hindu woman from the Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh, was drugged, photographed without consent, blackmailed, and subjected to sustained conversion pressure by a Muslim man named Anees Mohammed Khan. Khan, who was from a neighbouring village, arrived at the victim's home in 2022 under the pretext of performing jhad-phoonk (a traditional faith healing practice) when she was unwell, administered narcotic tablets to render her vulnerable, and took objectionable photographs of her. He subsequently used the photographs to blackmail her into converting to Islam for years, and when she refused, he made the photographs viral on social media. Anees Mohammed Khan was arrested, produced before the court, and sent to judicial custody following the registration of a case against him. According to reports, in the year 2022, Anees Mohammed Khan arrived at the Hindu woman's home under the pretext of performing jhad-phoonk when she fell ill. He administered narcotic tablets to her and took objectionable photographs without her consent. He then used these photographs as a sustained instrument of blackmail, threatening to make them viral unless she converted to Islam. Anees Mohammed Khan had previously been arrested in a rape case and was released on bail in May 2025. After his release, he resumed threatening the Hindu woman and intensifying the conversion pressure. When she clearly and firmly refused to convert to Islam, he made her objectionable photographs viral on social media. Following the viral spread of her photographs, the Hindu woman went to the Jawa police station, accompanied by her family members and filed a formal complaint. Police registered a case against Anees Mohammed Khan under death threats, blackmail, the Information Technology Act, and sections 3/5 of the Madhya Pradesh Religious Freedom Act 2021. Police located and arrested him in his own village and produced him before the court, following which he was sent to judicial custody. Additional Superintendent of Police Aarti Singh confirmed that the investigation was ongoing, that evidence, including cyber-related evidence, was being gathered, and that strict action would be taken against the perpetrator.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category for this case is "Predatory Proselytisation". The sub-category for the following 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. 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. Another sub-category for this case is "Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination". The tertiary category here is "Rape and sexual assault/harassment". Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting regimented ideas. Religious grooming or brainwashing also involves propaganda and manipulation. It involves the systematic effort, driven by religious malice and indoctrination, to persuade “non-believers’ to accept allegiance, command, or doctrine to and of a contrasting faith. Cases of such grooming or brainwashing are far more nuanced than direct threats, coercion, inducement and violence. In such cases, it is often seen that there is repeated, subtle and continual manipulation of the victim to induce disaffection towards their own faith and acceptance of the contrasting faith of the perpetrator. While subtle indoctrination is widely acknowledged as predatory, an element which is often understated in such conversions or the attempts of such conversion is the role of loyalty and trust which might develop between the perpetrator and the victim. Fiduciary relationships are often abused to affect such religious conversion. For example, an educator transmitting religious doctrine of a competing faith to a Hindu student. The Hindu student is likely to accept what the teacher is transmitting owing to existence of the fiduciary relationship. The exploitation of the fiduciary relationship to religiously indoctrinate victims would also be included in this category. Since the underlying animosity towards the victim’s faith forms the basis of predatory proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. This case qualifies as a religiously motivated hate crime because a Muslim man deliberately exploited a Hindu woman’s illness and her trust in a traditional faith healer. He drugged her, took photographs without her consent, and used those images as a tool of sustained blackmail and coercion. The coercion was aimed at forcing the victim to abandon her Hindu faith and convert to Islam, demonstrating a clear religious targeting motive. The entry point of the predatory operation was the deliberate exploitation of the Hindu woman's vulnerability during illness. By presenting himself as a traditional faith healer performing jhad-phoonk, Anees Mohammed Khan gained entry into her home and her trust under entirely false pretences. The administration of narcotic tablets and the non-consensual photographing of the Hindu woman in a compromised state during what she believed to be a healing visit reflected a premeditated and calculated plan to create a permanent instrument of control over her. The objectionable photographs became the central weapon of a sustained blackmail and conversion campaign that lasted for years. Anees Mohammed Khan repeatedly threatened to make the photographs viral unless the Hindu woman converted to Islam, using her fear of public humiliation and social disgrace as the primary instruments of religious coercion. The explicit and direct linking of the blackmail to conversion demands confirmed that the photographs were not merely used for personal leverage but as a deliberate and calculated instrument of forced religious conversion. The deliberate exploitation of the Hindu woman's illness, her trust in a faith healer, and her fear of social humiliation reflected a layered and sustained strategy of psychological manipulation. Each dimension of the coercion, the false pretext of healing, the drugging, the photography, and the blackmail, was designed to progressively deepen her vulnerability and maximise her susceptibility to conversion pressure. The sustained nature of the campaign, spanning years and surviving Anees Mohammed Khan's imprisonment and release on bail, confirmed the depth of his commitment to forcing the Hindu woman's conversion through any means necessary. When the Hindu woman firmly refused to convert to Islam, Anees Mohammed Khan made her objectionable photographs viral on social media, inflicting deliberate and calculated public humiliation on her as direct punishment for her refusal to abandon her Hindu faith. This act confirmed that the years of blackmail had been directed specifically at her Hindu religious identity, with the viral exposure serving as a deliberate and punitive response to her determination to remain Hindu. Given that this case met the parameters of a religiously motivated hate crime, it was added to the hate crime database of the tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when a crime occurred, or a victim's ordeal began, rather than when the media reported it. In this case, the sources confirm that Anees Mohammed Khan first visited the Hindu woman's home under the pretext of jhad-phoonk and drugged and photographed her in 2022, marking the beginning of her ordeal. The article was published on March 25, 2026. Therefore, March 25, 2022 has been chosen as the indicative incident date as it represents the approximate date on which the Hindu woman's ordeal began, with March 25 being the publication date and 2022 being the confirmed year in which the drugging, non-consensual photography, and subsequent blackmail campaign commenced. It is important to note that the ordeal continued well beyond 2022, with Anees Mohammed Khan resuming his threats and conversion pressure after his release on bail in May 2025 and ultimately making the photographs viral when the Hindu woman refused to convert. This was recorded for documentation purposes only.
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
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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