Hindu woman lured under a false promise of marriage; beaten, evicted and threatened with death after refusing to convert to Islam
Bilaspur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
8 April, 2024
Case Summary
A Hindu woman in Bilaspur, Uttar Pradesh, was manipulated into leaving her marriage by her husband's Muslim friend, subjected to a year of sexual abuse under a false promise of marriage, and then beaten, evicted from her home, and threatened with death when she refused to convert to Islam. A case was registered against three accused, and an investigation was launched. The victim had been married for five years and had a four-year-old son. Mustafa, a friend of her husband, had regular access to the family home through his friendship with her husband. He used this access to draw the woman into a relationship and manipulated her into divorcing her husband. Following the divorce, Mustafa promised to marry her and used that promise to subject her to sustained sexual abuse over a period of one year. Throughout this period, he maintained the pretence that marriage was his intention, keeping her compliant through false assurance. After a year of sustained abuse, Mustafa and his relatives, Naeem Chaudhary and Kabir, began pressuring the woman to convert to Islam. The demand for conversion emerged only after the year of sexual exploitation, revealing that the promise of marriage had always been conditional on her abandoning her Hindu faith. When she refused to convert, all three attacked her physically, threw her out of her home, and threatened to kill her. Left without shelter and facing death threats, she approached the police and sought justice. Kotawali in-charge Inspector Jeet Singh confirmed that a case had been registered against Mustafa, Naeem Chaudhary, and Kabir on the basis of the woman's complaint. Sub-inspector Ramveer Rathi was conducting the investigation, on the basis of which further legal action would be taken.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category for this case is "Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes". The sub-category for this case is "Brainwashed and/or groomed". The tertiary categories for the case is "Rape or sexual assault/Harassment" and "Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed". In several cases, a Hindu woman and/or minor is sexually harassed and/or assaulted with a religious motive. For example, in a case in Kausambi, UP, a Hindu girl was raped by non-Hindu perpetrators. During the assault, the victim pleaded to 'spare her in the name of Bhagwan'. The perpetrators then asked her to plead in the name of Allah. This clearly indicates a religious motive for the crime and evidences the religious animosity the perpetrators harbored against the victim owing to her religious identity. Such cases would be added to this tertiary category since the religious animosity makes the crime a hate crime. Another sub-category for this case is "Forced conversion before marriage" 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. One other sub-category for this case is "Assault or threat upon refusal to convert" When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. Another sub-category for this case is "Leaves Hindu partner upon refusal to convert". When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. The other primary category within which this incident is placed is- Attack not resulting in death. Within this, the subcategory selected is- Attacked for refusing to convert. When there is pressure, threat or coercion employed upon the Hindu victim to convert to a different religion, in several cases, the victim refuses to succumb to the pressure/threats. Once the victim refuses, the perpetrator proceeds to attack/assault the victim owing to his/her refusal to convert. In such cases, the pressure/threat/intimidation/coercion/violence itself is driven by animosity towards the victim’s Hindu faith. The violence then is another hate crime driven by the victim’s refusal to abandon his professed faith, Hinduism, and convert to the religion of a non-Hindu perpetrator. Since the victim’s faith is at the heart of the pressure to convert and the ensuing violence towards the victim, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. This case qualifies as a religiously motivated hate crime in which a Hindu woman in Bilaspur, Uttar Pradesh was systematically groomed by a Muslim man who exploited his position as a trusted family friend, manipulated her into ending her marriage, subjected her to a year of sexual abuse under a false promise of marriage, and then demanded she convert to Islam before he would honour that promise. When she refused, she was beaten, evicted from her home, and threatened with death. The exploitation of the perpetrator's position as a trusted family friend is the foundational religious marker of this case. Mustafa did not approach the victim as a stranger. He had regular access to her home through his friendship with her husband, and he used that position of trust to cultivate a relationship with her over an extended period. The grooming was made possible by the social proximity he had been granted as a family friend, and it was conducted with sufficient patience and deliberateness to result in the dissolution of her marriage before the sexual exploitation began. The manipulation of the victim into divorcing her husband is the second religious marker. Mustafa did not merely exploit a woman who was already separated or vulnerable. He actively worked to remove her from the protection of her marriage, persuading her to divorce her husband before drawing her fully into a relationship with him. This act of deliberate family destruction served his purposes precisely because it isolated the victim, removed her primary source of social and financial stability, and made her entirely dependent on his promise of marriage. A Hindu woman who had been separated from her husband and her marital home was a Hindu woman who had no immediate means of resistance or recourse. The sustained sexual abuse under a false promise of marriage is the third religious marker. For one year, Mustafa subjected the victim to sexual abuse while maintaining the fiction that marriage was his intention. The promise of marriage was the instrument through which her compliance was manufactured. It was not a genuine commitment. It was a mechanism of sustained exploitation, used to keep a vulnerable Hindu woman in a position of sexual availability while he determined the terms on which the relationship would proceed. The conversion demand as the revealed condition of marriage is the fourth religious marker. After a year of sexual exploitation, Mustafa revealed the true condition of the promised marriage. He demanded that she convert to Islam before he would proceed. This revelation confirmed that the promise of marriage had always been conditional on her religious transformation. The entire preceding period of grooming, family destruction, and sexual abuse had been building toward this moment, in which a Hindu woman would be presented with a choice between abandoning her faith and losing the promise that had been used to control her. The physical assault, eviction, and death threats upon her refusal are the fifth religious marker. When the victim refused to convert, all three perpetrators, Mustafa, Naeem Chaudhary, and Kabir, responded with immediate and coordinated violence. She was physically beaten, thrown out of her home, and threatened with death. The involvement of two additional perpetrators in the assault confirms that the conversion demand and the punishment for its refusal were not merely Mustafa's personal position but a collective stance shared by his associates. The violence was punitive, administered specifically in response to her refusal to abandon her Hindu faith, and it left her homeless and in fear for her life. 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 the crime began, rather than when it was reported or published. This case involves a sustained course of conduct spanning approximately two years, as the demand for conversion emerged only after one year of sustained sexual exploitation. Therefore, though this incident made it to the media on 9 April 2026, the date of the incident has been recorded as 9 April 2024. This ensures that the timeline accurately reflects the origin of the offence rather than its later public disclosure.
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
Complaint registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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