Minor Dalit Hindu girl kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Muslim man in Sindh, Pakistan

Case ID : 30a782e | Location : Mirpur Khas, Sindh, Pakistan | Date of Incident : Fri, 27 February, 2026

Case ID : 30a782e

Mirpur Khas, Sindh, Pakistan

27 February, 2026

Minor Dalit Hindu girl kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and married to Muslim man in Sindh, Pakistan

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination

Conversion of minor

Case Summary

In Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan, a 14-year-old minor Dalit Hindu girl, Anbo Kolhi, was abducted, forcibly converted and married off to a Muslim man. The incident came to light when the mother of the minor victim, Bhuro Kolhi, approached the Head Office of Pakistan Darawar Ittehad, a minority rights group in Pakistan, seeking justice. According to the family, Anbo Kolhi had been abducted around one month earlier from Landi near Dodo Khan Laghari in the Landhi area. The family stated that following the abduction, the minor girl was forcibly converted and married, causing extreme distress to her parents and relatives. The family met Pakistani Hindu activist and chairman of the Pakistan Darawar Ittehad (PDI), Shiva Kachhi, and appealed for the immediate recovery of their daughter. During the meeting, they narrated their ordeal and stated that despite the passage of time, they were struggling to secure justice and ensure the safe return of the minor girl. The names of the accused abductors were Qasim Meo Rajput, Ramzan Meo Rajput, Sabideen Meo Rajput and Asghar Meo Rajput. It was stated that after the abduction, the minor girl was subjected to forced religious conversion and marriage. The minority rights activist Shiva Kachhi expressed sympathy with the family and stated that such incidents were deeply tragic and amounted to a clear violation of human rights. He assured the family that Pakistan Darawar Ittehad would extend all possible legal, social, and moral support for the recovery of the girl. He further stated that such abuse of minor girls was completely unacceptable and that the matter would be raised before senior authorities, law enforcement agencies, and human rights organisations to ensure that the girl was recovered promptly and returned to her parents. It was also agreed during the meeting that the matter would be pursued on strong legal grounds and that every available platform would be used to demand strict action against the perpetrators. Further, Shiva Kachhi contacted the SSP Mirpurkhas and the SHO Kot Ghulam Muhammad, urging them to take immediate legal action in the matter. The family appealed to the authorities to register an FIR against the accused without delay and take urgent steps for the safe recovery and protection of the minor girl. Separately, according to a report published on 31 March 2026, members of Pakistan’s minority Hindu community held a sit-in protest outside the Sindh Assembly to highlight the rising cases of abduction and forced religious conversion of Hindu girls. The protesters had gathered under the banner of Pakistan Darawar Ittehad (PDI). According to eyewitnesses, hundreds of Hindus from across Sindh participated in the protest, which concluded peacefully after community leaders submitted a list of demands to the Speaker of the Sindh Assembly. The PDI Chairman also stated that Muslim and Christian leaders supported the protest rally and expressed solidarity with the Hindu community. This incident caused fear and distress within the local Hindu community, which viewed this as another instance of Hindu girls being targeted through forced religious conversion and marriage. This was not the first time such incidents had taken place in Pakistan, as the Hinduphobia Tracker had previously documented numerous similar cases. For example, in Mirpur Khas, Sindh, a minor Hindu girl named Maria, daughter of Shamon Bheel of Village Usman Shah Hadi, Tando Allahyar, was abducted and forcibly converted to Islam. She was married to her Muslim abductor, Naeem Memon Rajput, aged twenty-nine, and her name was changed to Naila Sheikh. Her family stated that the conversion and marriage were carried out without consent and under coercion. In September 2025, in Umerkot, Sindh, a minor Hindu girl named Shardha Oad was abducted and subjected to forced religious conversion and marriage by a Muslim man named Riaz Ali and his accomplices. The case came to light after her widowed mother, Kamla Oad, approached the Women’s Police Station in Umerkot seeking justice. In September 2025, in Mirpur Khas, Sindh, a minor Hindu girl named Aneeta Thakur was abducted and subjected to forced religious conversion and marriage to a Muslim man named Abdul Rehman Mallah. In February 2026, in Mithi, Tharparakar district, Sindh province, Pakistan, a minor Hindu girl belonging to the Dalit community was forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man. On 13 March 2026, in Bukhari Farm, a village near Kot Ghulam Muhammad tehsil in Mirpurkhas district of Sindh province in Pakistan, a 12-year-old Dalit Hindu girl, Lakshmi Kolhi, daughter of Ramesh Kolhi, was kidnapped, converted to Islam, and married to a Muslim man named Parvez Marri. She was also given a new Islamic name after conversion. The victim's documents were forged to show her as an adult to avoid any legal trouble. This case highlights the systematic persecution faced by the Hindu minorities in Pakistan, marked by systemic discrimination, violence, and forced conversions. Hindu women, particularly young girls, are often abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and married off to Muslim men with little to no legal recourse. Temples are frequently vandalised or destroyed, and Hindu communities are subjected to social and economic marginalisation. Blasphemy laws are disproportionately used against Hindus, leading to false accusations and severe punishments. Many Hindu families are forced to flee their homes due to religious intolerance, living in constant fear of attacks. This sustained persecution highlights the dire conditions for Hindus in Pakistan, where their religious identity makes them targets of oppression.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the subcategory selected 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 subcategory selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. Within this, the tertiary category selected 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 the 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 proselytisation, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. His case was added to the tracker because it involved the abduction of a 14-year-old minor Hindu girl, Anbo Kolhi, followed by her forced religious conversion and marriage. The immediate trigger for inclusion lay in the fact that the victim was specifically targeted as a Hindu minor, taken away from her family, and thereafter subjected to a change of religion and marriage without any free will or lawful consent. A key factor in this case was that the victim was a minor aged 14 years. At this age, no genuine consent could have existed for either conversion or marriage. A child of such age remained highly vulnerable to fear, pressure, and manipulation. It is a well-established fact that children are more susceptible to manipulation since they are still developing emotionally, cognitively, and socially. Their brains are not fully mature, making them more vulnerable to influence and less capable of critically evaluating information. Therefore, the victim’s age made the act a grave violation of child rights as well as a targeted act against a vulnerable Hindu child. Further, the conversion and marriage were not merely personal wrongs but directly affected the victim’s religious identity and freedom of faith. By abducting a Hindu minor and converting her to another religion before marrying her off, the perpetrators effectively stripped her of her Hindu identity, family ties, and community belonging. Such acts go beyond ordinary kidnapping and clearly reflect hostility towards the victim’s religious identity. Importantly, this case could not be viewed as an isolated incident. The forced conversion and marriage of minor Hindu girls in Sindh had formed a continuing pattern, particularly involving girls from economically and socially vulnerable Hindu families. Such repeated targeting of Hindu minors showed a broader environment of fear and discrimination faced by the Hindu community in the region. Additionally, the distress expressed by the family and their need to approach community organisations and senior police officials for intervention reflected the seriousness of the matter and the difficulty often faced by Hindu families in securing timely protection and justice. The demand for immediate FIR registration and the girl's recovery further highlighted the gravity of the offence. The act of forced conversion and subsequent marriage of the Hindu victim demonstrated the violation of her religious rights. It was a deliberate attempt to strip her of her Hindu faith and impose Islamic faith upon her. By targeting her religious beliefs, the perpetrators demonstrated clear animosity towards Hinduism and the Hindu community, making it a religiously motivated crime. Therefore, it was added to the Hinduphobia hate crime tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the date of an incident based on when the crime occurs, rather than when it is later reported in social or mainstream media. In this case, no specific date is available regarding when the victim was abducted or when her ordeal began, but mentioned that the victim was abducted a month earlier, so 28 February 2026 is being used as the indicative date of the incident.