Hindu woman lured, raped, forcibly converted to Islam, and made to undergo nikah by Muslim man

Case ID : 30a7822 | Location : Nagpur, Maharashtra, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 4 November, 2025

Case ID : 30a7822

Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

4 November, 2025

Hindu woman lured, raped, forcibly converted to Islam, and made to undergo nikah by Muslim man

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Forced conversion before marriage

Forced to do Nikah

Blackmailed to convert

Case Summary

In the Kapil Nagar police station area of Nagpur, a 21-year-old Hindu woman was lured, raped, blackmailed, and forcibly converted to Islam and made to undergo a nikah (Islamic marriage) by Muslims, namely Mushtaq Shakeel Ansari, his aunt Mehboobi Ansari, Raja Sheikh, and his accomplices. Furthermore, the accused resorted to superstition and performed 'witchcraft' on the victim. She was also threatened with death by the Muslim perpetrators. According to reports, the police registered a case against five Muslims, arrested the main accused, Mushtaq, and investigated further. The entire incident took place in the Kapil Nagar area of Nagpur. The 21-year-old victim told police that the accused, Mushtaq Shakeel Ansari, knew her from school. On the afternoon of 5 November 2025, he lured her to the Sai Temple on the banks of the Yellow River (Pili Nadi). From there, he took her to his aunt's house in the Hasan Bagh area and forcibly raped her. During this incident, the other accused, Raja Sheikh, and two of his accomplices filmed the act. Following this, the accused threatened to make the video viral. After this, the victim was forced to undergo a nikah and convert to Islam. Even after this, the victim was continuously harassed. The Hindu woman was subjected to superstition, and witchcraft was performed on her by "Bhondu Baba", an Islamic sorcerer. The Muslim perpetrators also physically and mentally tortured the victim. She was also constantly subjected to death threats. However, with the help of a social organisation, the case was brought to the police station, where the police registered a case under relevant sections and arrested Mushtaq, while searching for the other perpetrators. The police also registered a case against the perpetrators under sections 3 and 4 of the Anti-Superstition Act.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is added to the tracker under the primary category- Crime against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary category selected 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. The other subcategory selected is- Forced conversion before marriage. The tertiary category selected is- Forced to do Nikah. 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 selected 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 is a clear instance of a religiously motivated hate crime because a Hindu woman was befriended, lured, and sexually exploited by a Muslim man and his family, along with accomplices. Her obscene videos were recorded, and she faced relentless blackmail, forced religious conversion, and enforced nikah to shatter her Hindu identity. The accused further subjected her to superstition, witchcraft, and chilling death threats, rooting this brutality in anti-Hindu hostility and making it an undeniable religiously motivated hate crime that scarred the soul of the Hindu victim forever. In this case, the deliberate befriending and luring of a Hindu woman to the perpetrator's aunt's home for sexual exploitation reveals calculated religious targeting from the outset. This was no fleeting attraction; the subsequent pressure for conversion and nikah exposes how the initial rape stemmed from deep religious animosity aimed at profiling and dominating her precisely for her Hindu identity. Rape here transcended mere sexual gratification, serving as a weapon to humiliate and subjugate a Hindu woman and, by extension, her community. Such acts weaponise sexual violence to assert religious supremacy, stripping victims of dignity and broadcasting perpetrators' hatred, thereby cementing this as a religiously motivated hate crime. Following the assault, the recording of obscene videos and their ruthless use in blackmail forced the victim into religious conversion and nikah, exposing the perpetrators' malicious intent to obliterate her Hindu faith entirely. Forcibly stripping someone of their religion invades the most intimate core of personal autonomy, chaining her to a lifetime of subjugation through an imposed Islamic marriage that aimed to shatter her spirit, erase her religious and cultural roots, and bind her forever in a faith alien to her heart. This calculated erasure of her Hindu identity went beyond individual coercion, striking at the essence of what it means to live as a Hindu woman with dignity and devotion. Such acts of forced conversion and marriages are a result of the perpetrators' deep-seated animosity against Hinduism and the Hindu community. Blackmail emerged as their vicious tool to fracture the Hindu victim's resolve, wielding those humiliating videos not just to silence her but to compel submission to demands that directly mocked and demeaned her lifelong religious identity and beliefs. Every threat dangled over her head became a renewed attack on her Hindu soul, pressuring her to renounce her gods and traditions under duress, turning private agony into a public desecration of her faith. These relentless tactics pulse with raw anti-Hindu hatred, weaponising fear to dismantle a Hindu woman's religious identity while sending ripples of fear through her entire community, cementing this as a blatant religiously motivated hate crime. The victim's ordeal worsened with superstition imposed through an Islamic sorcerer called "Bhondu Baba," along with physical beatings, mental torture, and direct death threats. These added layers of cruelty went beyond harming one woman; they aimed to spread fear linked to her Hindu faith, revealing the perpetrators' deep hatred for her religious identity. Acts like witchcraft rituals, brutal assaults, and threats of execution served as warnings to the wider Hindu community, intensifying the crime's gravity and marking it clearly as a religiously motivated hate crime driven by anti-Hindu hostility. Given that this case meets every parameter for a religiously motivated hate crime, it is being added to the Hate Crime Database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: In this case, the perpetrator count has been recorded as "6". Although the report states that a case was registered against five people, Mushtaq Shakeel Ansari, Mehboobi Ansari, Raja Shaikh, and their two accomplices, it is equally true that the Islamic sorcerer Bhondu Baba participated in the crime by aiding the perpetrators. Hence, the total perpetrator count stands at six (6).