Hindu woman lured with inducements, pressured for religious conversion, and assaulted upon refusal by Christian women in Udaipur

Case ID : 30a8258 | Location : Udaipur, Rajasthan, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 2 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a8258

Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

2 May, 2026

Hindu woman lured with inducements, pressured for religious conversion, and assaulted upon refusal by Christian women in Udaipur

Predatory Proselytisation

Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for refusal to convert

Case Summary

In Udaipur, Rajasthan, a Hindu woman was pressured for religious conversion by a few Christian women. The victim was lured with inducements and later coerced to convert, but when she refused, she was brutally assaulted by the perpetrators. According to media reports, this incident came to light when the victim filed a case against three Christian women for pressuring her to convert to their religion and assaulting her. The victim is a Hindu woman named Kajori Guru, originally a resident of Odisha. This occurred in Gayariawas of the Hiranmagri police station area of Udaipur. The victim, Kajori Guru, stated that the accused, Anisha Dodia, Aradhya, and Pari had been coercing her into converting to Christianity for a long time. They promised her financial benefits from the church if she converted. However, when she refused, the accused assaulted her brutally. Even a man named David, who intervened to save the Hindu victim on 3 April 2026, was assaulted by the perpetrators. Following the victim's complaint, the police registered a case and began an investigation into this matter.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory selected is- Conversion/attempts to convert by inducements. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. 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. Another primary category selected is- Attack not resulting in death. 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. In this case, a Hindu woman was given inducements and coerced into converting to Christianity, marking this as a clear hate crime rooted in anti-Hindu hostility. The Christian perpetrators first offered her money and promised large monetary benefits from the church if she converted, presenting these incentives as a straightforward pathway to financial gain and stability. Such inducements do not represent genuine kindness or goodwill in any form; instead, they constitute a calculated form of coercion by deliberately exploiting the economic vulnerabilities of vulnerable Hindus, who often face financial hardships. This predatory tactic lures them into abandoning their ancestral faith through manipulative promises of wealth and security, preying on desperation to undermine deeply held religious beliefs. This approach reveals the deep-seated religious animosity of the perpetrators, who systematically weaponise financial desperation as a tool to erode Hindu identity, dismantle cultural traditions, and force conversions against the will of the targeted individuals. By design, it fulfils key criteria of a religiously motivated hate crime, as it targets Hindus specifically for their faith while using economic leverage to inflict spiritual harm. The victim endured further coercion and pressure to convert, escalating this incident into a religiously motivated hate crime that directly violated her religious autonomy and fundamental rights to freely practise her faith without any fear, intimidation, or external coercion. A genuine conversion must always stem from the personal conviction and voluntary choice of the individual involved, reflecting an authentic inner transformation free from outside influence. Yet here, the Hindu woman faced relentless pressure, repeated inducements, and unyielding coercion to abandon Hinduism for Christianity, with the perpetrators employing psychological manipulation and persistent demands to break her resolve. This forceful and invasive approach completely stripped her of religious autonomy, infringing on her inherent right to freely practise Hinduism, preserve her rituals, and maintain her spiritual identity without fear of reprisal or manipulation. It exemplifies a deliberate and aggressive attack on her faith, driven by a proselytising zeal that seeks to dominate and suppress Hindu practices through non-consensual means. When the Hindu victim refused to convert at any cost, standing firm in her faith despite the mounting threats, the perpetrators brutally assaulted her, underscoring their religious intolerance and solidifying this as a hate crime fuelled by anti-Hindu animosity. Physical violence unleashed as direct retaliation for rejecting conversion exposes the perpetrators' profound and unmasked hostility towards Hindus and Hinduism as a whole, targeting her precisely because of her unwavering adherence to her religion. This act of savagery punishes resistance to religious domination, highlighting how Hindus remain particularly vulnerable to such brutality when they resist conversion efforts and assert their right to their faith. It transforms this assault into a stark and undeniable example of religiously motivated violence, where the motivation stems explicitly from animus against the Hindu refusal to submit. Given that this case meets multiple parameters of a hate crime, including inducement, coercion, religious targeting, and retaliatory violence against a Hindu victim, it qualifies for inclusion in the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurs, rather than when the media reports it. In this case, the victim states that she had been facing pressure to convert for a long time, but no other date exactly specifies when her ordeal began. The only date mentioned in the media reports is 3 April 2026, the day when the perpetrators assaulted the victim for refusing to convert, and a man named David tried to protect her. Henceforth, this date, since it is the only one given in the reports, is being considered as an indicative incident date for documentation purposes only.