Hindu college girl repeatedly raped by Muslim man who forced her to wear burqa in Maharashtra

Case ID : 30a7f06 | Location : Jalna, Maharashtra, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 18 April, 2026

Case ID : 30a7f06

Jalna, Maharashtra, India

18 April, 2026

Hindu college girl repeatedly raped by Muslim man who forced her to wear burqa in Maharashtra

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Forced conversion before marriage

Forced to wear Hijab

Case Summary

A Hindu college girl in Jalna, Maharashtra, was lured into a relationship by a Muslim man named Sahil Ansari from Bihar, who forced her to wear a burqa [full Islamic face and body covering] to conceal her identity, subjected her to repeated sexual assault, and threatened her with suicide to maintain his control over her. Sahil Ansari was arrested by Jalna police, and a case was registered against him under rape and Atrocities Act provisions. Sahil Ansari approached the Hindu college girl and drew her into a relationship through deception. He compelled her to wear a burqa whenever she came to meet him. Under the cover of this concealment, he subjected her to repeated sexual assault over an extended period. He used the threat of suicide to intimidate her into continued compliance and silence. The victim filed a complaint with Jalna police, disclosing the full account of what had been done to her. Deputy Superintendent of Police Anant Kulkarni confirmed that Sahil Ansari had been compelling the girl to wear a burqa when she came to meet him on the road, specifically to prevent her identity from being established. Jalna police arrested Sahil Ansari from Bihar in connection with the case. A case was registered against him under rape and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes [Prevention of Atrocities] Act provisions. He was taken into custody, and further investigation was underway.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category for this case is "Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes". The sub-category here is "Brainwashed and/or groomed". The tertiary category for this case 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. Another sub-category for this case is "Forced conversion before marriage". The tertiary category for this case is "Forced to wear Hijab". 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. This case qualifies as a religiously motivated hate crime in which a Hindu college girl in Jalna, Maharashtra, was groomed into a relationship by a Muslim man named Sahil Ansari, subjected to repeated sexual assault, and compelled to wear a burqa. The imposition of Islamic dress on a Hindu girl as a condition of their meetings was not a practical measure of privacy. It was a deliberate act of religious identity suppression, designed to erase the victim's visible Hindu identity and replace it with an Islamic one before the abuse took place. This case qualifies as a religiously motivated hate crime because the accused did not merely exploit the victim sexually but imposed conditions that directly interfered with and suppressed her Hindu identity while coercing her into a controlled and abusive relationship. The sequence of actions—deception, isolation, identity concealment, and repeated assault—demonstrates a pattern that goes beyond personal misconduct and enters the realm of targeted coercion. A central element of this case is the forced imposition of the burqa on the Hindu victim. The accused compelled her to wear a burqa whenever she came to meet him, not as a matter of personal choice but as a condition imposed by him. This act is significant because the burqa is not merely a garment but a visible marker associated with a specific religious practice. Forcing a Hindu woman to wear it, especially against her will, reflects an attempt to override her existing identity and replace it with one dictated by the perpetrator. It was not about modesty or concealment in a neutral sense; it was a deliberate act of control that imposed a religiously coded form of appearance on someone who did not belong to that tradition. This imposition was not an isolated act but part of a broader pattern of coercion. The accused lured the victim into a relationship through deception, subjected her to repeated sexual assault, and used threats of suicide to emotionally manipulate and silence her. These tactics created a situation where the victim’s autonomy was systematically dismantled. The forced wearing of the burqa must be understood within this larger framework, where physical control, psychological pressure, and identity suppression were used together to maintain dominance. The targeting of the victim as a Hindu woman becomes clearer when these elements are viewed collectively. The accused did not simply engage in a private relationship; he imposed behavioural and appearance-related conditions that were alien to her own religious identity while exploiting her vulnerability. The coercion extended beyond physical abuse into regulating how she appeared in public and how her identity was presented or concealed. The impact of such actions goes beyond the individual victim. By forcing a Hindu woman to adopt a religious marker against her will while subjecting her to abuse, the act conveys a broader message that her identity could be overridden and reshaped through coercion. This creates a pattern in which control is exercised not only over the individual but also over the expression of her faith and identity. Taken together, the deception used to initiate the relationship, the forced imposition of a religious marker, the repeated sexual exploitation, and the use of threats to maintain control establish that the act was not incidental but structured and sustained. The imposition of the burqa, in particular, reflects an attempt to suppress and replace the victim’s identity as part of this control. Accordingly, this case is categorised as a religiously motivated hate crime, as it involves coercion that directly targets and interferes with the victim’s religious identity and autonomy. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, not when it was reported or published. The source does not specify the exact date on which the grooming began or when the individual acts of abuse took place. Thus, the publication date of 19 April 2026 has been used as the indicative incident date for documentation purposes. This was recorded for documentation purposes only.