Hindu female students targeted for forced religious conversion by Muslim man posing as doctor at a medical college in Lucknow
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 
20 April, 2023
Case Summary
In Lucknow's King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Hindu female students were targeted for forced conversion by a 26-year-old Muslim man named Hassam Ahmad. The accused posed as a doctor and attempted to lure Hindu female students under the pretext of attending medical conferences and camps. He also financially duped multiple patients and their caretakers using his false doctor identity. According to media reports, the accused, Hassam Ahmad, also established contact with Hindu students from two other colleges. Once, he gave fake letters to women in the name of taking them to a conference at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. He used to take Hindu female students to camps in Muslim-majority areas in the name of the “Cardio Seva Sansthan Trust”. Ahmad was arrested on 21 April 2026 by Lucknow police following an inquiry after a formal complaint was submitted against him. According to police, Ahmad targeted Hindu female students and was linked to a religious conversion racket. King George’s Medical University spokesperson, Dr KK Singh, said that a probe was initiated under the Vice-Chancellor after inputs were received about a suspected impersonator moving across the campus. “Our team had been monitoring unusual activity and apprehended him on Tuesday (21 April 2026). He was involved in such activities for the past three years (2023),” Singh said. Singh added that Ahmad used to lure Hindu female students by claiming that he could arrange interactions with doctors from the United States at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The accused was plotting a major conversion scheme by luring them with promises of training in Delhi and the United States. Deputy Commissioner of Police (West), Kamlesh Dixit, said that Ahmad had been cheating patients and their attendants in the name of ‘Cardio Seva Sansthan Trust’. He had been collecting money from them on the pretext of offering them some treatment. He was caught by some MBBS students, who handed him over to the police. A First Information Report was registered against him at Chowk police station for cheating and forgery. According to police, Ahmad forged a notice in the name of a King George’s Medical University professor about a fake conference at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, to mislead students. “Mobile data suggested he had been trying to lure students to Delhi. This angle was under probe,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Dixit said. The police tracked his movement before finally nabbing him on Tuesday (21 April 2026). Police were verifying his claims regarding having links with multiple departments and staff within the university. Police said that letters bearing fabricated signatures and a fake King George’s Medical University letterhead were recovered from Ahmad, who was always seen wearing a white coat. He revealed during questioning that he had studied up to the 12th standard and ran a social service organisation, conducting medical camps. He also named some individuals linked to private medical institutions during interrogation, who were being examined by the police. The police were also verifying his connection, scrutinising financial transactions and authenticating the recovered documents. Notably, this was not the first time King George’s Medical University had come under scrutiny over the targeting of Hindu women. Previously, Hinduphobia Tracker had documented another such incident. In the same university, a Hindu woman attempted suicide on 21 December 2025 after facing sustained pressure from her Muslim colleague, Dr Ramizuddin Nayak, to convert to Islam and comply with his sexual demands as a condition for marriage. It was later disclosed that he had lured her into a relationship, sexually exploited her under the pretext of marriage, and later pressured her to convert to Islam. When the victim refused to convert, he abandoned her.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected in this case is- Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation and subtle indoctrination. The tertiary category selected is- Pattern of targeting Hindus. 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 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 proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. The other 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. In this case, at King George’s Medical University in Lucknow, several Hindu female students fell victim to targeted forced conversion attempts by a Muslim man posing as a quack doctor. He deliberately established connections with them by masquerading as a trusted medical professional, luring them under pretexts like attending medical camps and conferences. This calculated targeting of Hindu women specifically for religious conversion reveals a clear pattern of religiously motivated animosity, where the victims' Hindu faith became the central reason for the accused's predatory actions. Far from random deception, his scheme centred on exploiting religious vulnerabilities to erode the victims' Hindu identity, marking it as a textbook example of a hate crime driven by bias against their faith. The accused's decision to pose as a doctor was a cunning ploy to exploit the trust these young Hindu women placed in medical authority, tricking them into believing he was a genuine professional who could advance their careers. He dangled promises of opportunities like interactions with US doctors or training programmes, all designed to draw them into his web of lies. Yet beneath this facade lay the sinister intent to forcibly alter their faith as part of a larger conversion racket. This deception from the outset stemmed from bias against their Hindu identity, aiming to strip them of their religious and cultural roots in a profound violation of their autonomy. Such predatory tactics underscore a deep contempt for their faith, transforming professional trust into a tool for religious and spiritual erasure. He further manipulated these vulnerable Hindu female students by claiming he could boost their careers through trips to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi or events organised by his so-called “Cardio Seva Sansthan Trust”. These were elaborate lies crafted to build false rapport and isolate them, with the ultimate goal of converting them to Islam. By weaponising promises of professional growth against their religious innocence, his actions exemplified hate crime tactics rooted in religious animosity. This was not mere opportunism; it was a deliberate strategy to prey on their aspirations while plotting to forcibly overwrite their lifelong Hindu beliefs, revealing the malice at the heart of his scheme. At its core, the targeting of these women for forced conversion strips away their fundamental right to religious autonomy and the freedom to practise their faith. These women grew up with Hindu traditions, rituals, and community. Now they face pressure to give it all up. This is not a voluntary shift in belief but a violent overwriting of Hindu identity nurtured since the victims' childhood, showcasing profound religious animosity towards Hinduism. Forcing Hindu women specifically to convert to Islam demonstrates an anti-Hindu hate crime, where the victims' faith becomes the bullseye for aggression and cultural obliteration. The fact that the accused operated as part of an organised Islamic conversion racket amplifies the hate crime dimension. This was no lone actor but a structured group effort, where he and his accomplices systematically stripped Hindu women of their religious identity through fabricated doctor personas, forged invitations, and sham events like medical camps. These meticulously planned deceptions reveal the hallmarks of organised crime: coordination, sustained planning over years, and a ruthless focus on eroding the Hindu community's faith identity, making it a hate crime rooted in religious animosity. The accused's targeting spanned multiple colleges and involved numerous Hindu women, forming a chilling pattern designed to convert large swathes of them to Islam and subtly alter local religious demographics. Such coordinated predation on Hindu women, lured with career promises and isolated in hostile settings, demonstrates organised religious bias, turning individual traps into a broader assault on the Hindu presence and cultural fabric. Beyond the conversions, his forgery of documents, like fake notices from King George’s Medical University professors and invitations to All India Institute of Medical Sciences conferences, extended to financial duping of patients and their caretakers via the sham “Cardio Seva Sansthan Trust”. He pocketed money under the pretence of treatment, all while wearing a white coat to sustain his impostor image. This web of deceit highlights his inherent criminal mindset, where lies served not just greed but a hateful agenda, blending exploitation with religious targeting to maximise harm. These events at King George’s Medical University are not isolated; they echo a prior incident where a Hindu woman attempted suicide after enduring pressure from her Muslim colleague, Dr Ramizuddin Nayak, to convert to Islam amidst sexual coercion tied to marriage promises. In both cases, Muslim men used fabricated professional identities to target Hindu women for forced conversion, revealing a repeated pattern of predation. This recurrence transforms isolated acts into systemic hate crimes, where Hindu women face ongoing vulnerability due to their faith. Such acts of targeted proselytisation stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths like Islam believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. This further translates to doctrinal animosity towards Hinduism and its adherents, making it a religiously driven hate crime. Given that this case met several parameters of a religiously motivated offence, it has been added to the Hinduphobia Tracker's hate crime database. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the victims' ordeal begins, rather than when it is reported by the media. However, in this case, media reports did not state the exact date when the victims' ordeal began. The reports only highlighted one date: the accused's arrest on 21 April 2026. The only other timeframe mentioned was that he had been targeting victims and conducting these activities for the past three years, dating back to 2023. Based on this information, an indicative incident date of 21 April 2023 has been selected for documentation purposes only. In this case, although multiple Hindu victims were targeted for forced conversion, the total number of victims was not specified in any media reports. Hence, the victim count has been recorded as 'unknown'.
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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