Hindu police constable blackmailed and forced to convert to Islam under guise of marriage, threatened to be implicated in a fake rape case for non-compliance

Case ID : 30a7bbf | Location : Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 10 April, 2012

Case ID : 30a7bbf

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

10 April, 2012

Hindu police constable blackmailed and forced to convert to Islam under guise of marriage, threatened to be implicated in a fake rape case for non-compliance

Men attacked for being associated with non-Hindu women

Blackmailed to convert

Forced to convert before marriage

Forced to follow non-Hindu practises

Case Summary

A Hindu man serving as a police constable in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, was subjected to pressure, coercion, and legal threats by a Muslim woman who forced him to convert to Islam. The Hindu victim, identified as Shrikant (35), stated that he was compelled to change his faith under pressure and was later subjected to continued exploitation. In 2012, while posted in Ghaziabad, the Hindu man met Hina, a 30-year-old Muslim woman from Delhi. She approached him and initiated communication, which developed into a friendship over a short period. During this time, they regularly interacted. After the relationship developed, the Muslim woman began pressuring the Hindu man to convert to her religion and marry her. The Hindu man refused to comply with these demands. Following his refusal, the Muslim woman initiated legal action against him and accused him of rape. The accusation led to police proceedings against the Hindu man. According to the police, the constable was caught and imprisoned in Delhi in 2021 after the woman filed a formal complaint alleging rape. She then restored contact with the personnel after he was released. She promised to make a statement in his support and tie the knot with him after divorcing her husband if he became a Muslim. Under pressure arising from the allegations and the legal situation, the Hindu man stated that he converted to Islam and repeatedly attended religious events as a result of the woman’s pressure. Despite this, the Muslim woman continued to exert pressure and maintained control over the situation. Shrikant added that the woman had kept him under perpetual strain throughout the years by using blackmail and psychological abuse. The cop disclosed that she extorted almost Rs 17 lakh from him during this time through her collaborators in the name of helping him. “Despite complying with her demands, the woman neither gave a statement in his favour nor married him, and also failed to return the money. Aggrieved by this, the constable approached the police and lodged an FIR against the woman and others,” an official revealed. The Hindu man later filed a complaint detailing the sequence of events, including the pressure to convert and the use of legal threats. Based on his complaint, a case was registered against the Muslim woman at the Khekra police station in the Baghpat district. The police took action following the complaint and arrested the 30-year-old Muslim woman, identified as Hina, a resident of Delhi on 11th March, 2026. She was charged under relevant provisions related to forced religious conversion and sent to jail. The matter was taken up for further legal proceedings, and the investigation continued.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category - Men attacked for being associated with non-Hindu women. The subcategory selected here is- Blackmailed to convert. When Hindu men are in a relationship with non-Hindu women, there are cases where the man is blackmailed to convert his religion. 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 woman starts blackmailing a Hindu man to convert his religion. In these cases, it is often seen that the Hindu man is blackmailed with intimate photos and/or videos, threats of harm to his 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. The other subcategory selected is- Forced conversion before marriage, and within this, the relavant tertiary category is- Forced to follow non-Hindu practises. In such cases, a non-Hindu woman is in a relationship with a Hindu man when the force/pressure against the Hindu man to convert his religion begins to manifest. The relationship in such cases is mostly consensual and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu man in the relationship, however, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu woman starts to force/pressure the victim to convert his religion and give up his Hindu identity. In such cases, the methods used to force/pressure the victim to convert his religion often revolve around forcing/pressurizing the man to involuntarily consume beef, forced circumcision, forcing/pressurizing 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 the Hindu man 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 incident involving Shrikant reflects clear indicators of a religiously motivated hate crime, as the actions directed against him were not limited to personal exploitation but were closely tied to coercion aimed at altering his religious identity. The first marker is the targeting of the victim’s religious identity through conditional coercion. The relationship initiated by the accused transitioned into repeated demands that the Hindu victim abandon his faith and convert to Islam as a precondition for marriage and relief from legal distress. This establishes that the objective was not merely relational but explicitly centred on changing his religious identity. The second marker lies in the use of legal threats as a tool of religious coercion. Following his refusal to convert, the accused filed a rape complaint, resulting in his arrest and incarceration. The subsequent offer to provide favourable support only upon conversion demonstrates a calculated use of legal mechanisms to create pressure. This transforms the situation from a personal dispute into one where institutional processes were leveraged to compel a change in faith. The third marker is the sustained pattern of psychological coercion and exploitation linked to conversion. Even after his release, the accused maintained control over the victim through promises of marriage and legal relief, contingent upon his compliance with religious demands. The victim’s eventual conversion occurred in a context shaped by prolonged pressure, blackmail, and vulnerability arising from ongoing legal and financial exploitation. Such circumstances negate the possibility of a free and informed change of conscience. Further, the imposition of religious practices adds another layer to the coercion. After being compelled to convert, the victim was made to attend Islamic religious events and participate in practices associated with the faith. This indicates that the coercion extended beyond a formal declaration of conversion and involved the enforced adoption of a new religious identity in practice, further reinforcing the absence of voluntary choice. The fourth marker is the continued exploitation despite compliance, indicating that the conversion demand functioned as a mechanism of control rather than a one-time condition. The extraction of money, repeated pressure, and failure to honour assurances demonstrate that the victim remained trapped in a cycle of dependency even after complying with the demand to convert. Finally, the overall pattern shows a deliberate and structured exploitation of vulnerability to achieve conversion. The accused first created a situation of emotional proximity, then escalated to legal coercion, and ultimately leveraged the victim’s compromised position to secure a change in his religious identity. The conversion was not incidental but the central objective around which the pressure, threats, and manipulation were organised. By exploiting the victim’s vulnerability arising from legal jeopardy, emotional manipulation, and financial extraction, the accused ensured compliance through sustained pressure rather than voluntary choice. This systematic targeting of a Hindu individual’s faith and the use of coercive means to alter stems from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is a subject to be dehumanised till they convert. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the offence first began rather than when it was reported or legally acted upon. In this case, the events trace back to 2012, when the accused first initiated contact with the victim and set in motion the subsequent coercion and exploitation. However, as the exact day and month of this initial contact are not available in reports, the day and month have been standardised using the reporting date. Accordingly, the incident date has been recorded as 11/04/2012, ensuring both chronological accuracy (year of occurrence) and consistency in documentation where precise dates are unavailable.