Hindu minor girl abducted from Sindh village in Pakistan; family threatened with her death

Case ID : 30a7939 | Location : Umarkot, Sindh, Pakistan | Date of Incident : Thu, 15 January, 2026

Case ID : 30a7939

Umarkot, Sindh, Pakistan

15 January, 2026

Hindu minor girl abducted from Sindh village in Pakistan; family threatened with her death

Undecided cases

Abduction of minor

Case Summary

An 11-year-old Hindu girl was abducted at gunpoint from Rohalwa village in Umerkot district, Sindh, Pakistan and had been missing for 20 days at the time of reporting. Despite a First Information Report [FIR] being registered and repeated appeals by her family and the local Hindu community, police had taken no meaningful action to recover the child. The accused had issued death threats against the family, warning that the girl would never be returned. Lachmi Dhi, known as Lachhi, was the daughter of Hero Kolhi and Aju Kolhi, residents of Rohalwa village in Umerkot district. She was abducted at gunpoint by two individuals named Ramesh Rano and Amulak. The abduction took place in the village itself, in broad reach of her family and community, underscoring the brazenness of the act. Her mother Aju Kolhi filed a complaint at the Women's Police Station, on the basis of which an FIR was registered naming Ramesh Rano and Amulak as the accused. Despite the formal registration of the case, nearly three weeks passed without the child being recovered or produced before a court. The family repeatedly approached police and other authorities but received no substantive response. The accused did not merely abduct the child and disappear. They issued active threats to the family, warning that they would kill Lachhi and never return her. The family lived in daily fear, uncertain whether the child was alive, had been harmed, or had been taken out of the area entirely. Aju Kolhi broke down before the media, describing her anguish at 20 days of institutional silence. She stated that police were not cooperating and that no one had shown sympathy or offered help. Members of the local Hindu community held demonstrations in protest at the lack of progress, and the family issued direct appeals to the Senior Superintendent of Police [SSP], the Chief Minister of Sindh, and all relevant law enforcement agencies to intervene and recover the child immediately.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category of this case is "Undecided cases". The sub-category here is "Abduction of minor". This case involves the abduction at gunpoint of an 11-year-old Hindu minor girl from Rohalwa village in Umerkot district, Sindh, Pakistan. The victim, Lachmi Dhi, has been missing for 20 days at the time of reporting, with police failing to act despite a registered First Information Report [FIR] and repeated appeals from her family and the local Hindu community. The accused have issued explicit death threats against the family, warning that the child will never be returned. The case exhibits several features that warrant serious concern. The victim is a Hindu minor from a marginalised community in Sindh, a province with a deeply documented pattern of abductions of Hindu girls, many of which are subsequently linked to forced marriage and forced conversion to Islam. The brazenness of the abduction, carried out at gunpoint in the victim's own village, and the sustained police inaction that followed, are both consistent with patterns observed in religiously motivated targeting of Hindu minority girls in Pakistan. The fact that the accused have threatened to kill the child rather than return her suggests a level of impunity that is frequently associated with cases where perpetrators operate with the confidence that institutional protection will not be extended to Hindu victims. However, the source contains no explicit religious markers that would allow this case to be classified as a confirmed religiously motivated hate crime at this stage. There is no confirmation of forced conversion, no demand that the child follow Islamic practices, no religious coercion explicitly stated, and no statement from the family or community identifying the religious identity of the accused or asserting a religious motive behind the abduction. The names of the accused, Ramesh Rano and Amulak, do not confirm a particular religious identity, and the source does not provide further clarification on this point. It is entirely possible that the abduction was motivated by religious profiling, given that Hindu minority girls in Sindh are disproportionately targeted precisely because of their religious identity, their social marginalisation, and the reduced institutional protection they receive. It is equally possible, however, that this was a crime of opportunity or one rooted in local personal or land disputes rather than religious animus. Without explicit evidence of religious motivation, either from the perpetrators' conduct or from the family's testimony, that determination cannot be made on the basis of the available source material alone. For this reason, the case has not been classified as a confirmed religiously motivated hate crime at this stage. It has instead been added to the undecided database of the tracker. If further information emerges confirming that the abduction was motivated by the victim's Hindu identity or that religious coercion formed part of the perpetrators' conduct toward the child, the case will be reclassified and moved to the hate crime database accordingly.