Hindu minor girl coerced into converting to Islam by three Muslim youths, had gone missing four months ago
Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 
28 November, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu minor girl from Shahpur, Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, had been missing for four months. She was coerced into converting to Islam by three Muslim youths, namely Mohammed Akhtar Ali alias Kari Sahab, Mohammed Rashid Ali, and Majida Tabassum. Police registered a First Information Report in connection with a conversion case following mounting pressure. The three Muslim individuals were subsequently arrested. All three were originally from the Bankatiya police station area, Bansi, Siddharthnagar district, and were found living in a rented house in the village of Bhanpur Masjidiya. All three were produced before the court and sent to judicial custody. According to reports, the Hindu minor girl had been missing for four months from the Bhavaniganj police station area, with the case attracting significant public and political attention. The three accused, Mohammed Akhtar Ali alias Kari Sahab, Mohammed Rashid Ali, and Majida Tabassum, were wanted in connection with a conversion case registered under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act 2021. They had been residing in a rented house in village Bhanpur Masjidiya, concealing themselves from the authorities. Former Member of the Legislative Assembly from Dumariaganj, Raghavendra Pratap Singh, visited Bhavaniganj police station and met with the station-in-charge and other officers, demanding strict action in the matter and warning against any cover-up. A video of his visit went viral on social media, in which he stated that no whitewashing of the matter would be allowed. He also accused an unnamed local leader of providing protection to members of a particular community in connection with the case. Following mounting pressure, police registered a First Information Report under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021, against the three accused, who had been wanted in connection with the case. Station in-charge Bhavaniganj, Brijesh Singh, led a police team to the village of Bhanpur Masjidiya, where the three accused were living in a rented house, and arrested them at approximately 10:50 AM. Mohammed Akhtar Ali alias Kari Sahab, Mohammed Rashid Ali, and Majida Tabassum were produced before the court and sent to judicial custody. The investigation was ongoing as of the time of the available sources.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category for this case is "Predatory Proselytisation". The sub-category for 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. 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 and subtle indoctrination". The sub-category here is "Conversion of minor". 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 qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime on the basis that three Muslim individuals carried out a deliberate and organised conversion operation targeting a Hindu minor girl, resulting in her disappearance for four months and the registration of a case under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act 2021. The four-month disappearance of the Hindu minor girl reflected the sustained and organised nature of the conversion operation directed at her. The involvement of three accused individuals, including a woman named Majida Tabassum, reflected a calculated and deliberate division of roles within the conversion operation, with the female accused potentially serving as the instrument through which the Hindu minor girl's trust and confidence were initially cultivated before she was drawn into the conversion operation. The use of a female accomplice to gain the trust of a Hindu minor girl is a particularly calculated and predatory strategy, exploiting the natural trust that a young girl would extend to a woman as compared to an unknown man, and reflecting the organised and premeditated nature of the conversion operation. The deliberate targeting of a Hindu minor girl for a sustained conversion operation reflected a conscious and predatory choice to exploit the particular vulnerability of a minor who, due to her young age and lack of maturity, was particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. Minors do not have the ability to fully understand the implications of converting to another religion, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. The registration of the case under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act 2021 confirmed the authorities' recognition of the organised and predatory nature of the conversion operation and the serious legal dimension of the systematic targeting of a vulnerable Hindu minor through sustained coercion and manipulation. The four-month duration of the disappearance confirmed that the conversion operation was not a brief or opportunistic act but a sustained and deliberate campaign directed at maintaining control over the Hindu minor girl over an extended period. 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 exact date on which the Hindu minor girl went missing, and her ordeal began, is not confirmed in the sources. The article was published on March 29, 2026, and the sources confirm that the Hindu minor girl had been missing for approximately four months prior to publication. Therefore, November 29, 2025, has been chosen as the indicative incident date as it represents the approximate date on which the Hindu minor girl's ordeal began, based on the four-month period of disappearance confirmed in the sources. It is important to note that this date is an approximation, and the exact date of the incident remains unconfirmed. 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 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
both
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