Minor Hindu girl raped, pressured to convert to Islam after marriage by Muslim man posing as Hindu; accused similarly targeted multiple Hindu women
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India 
4 May, 2009
Case Summary
In Bhopal, a minor Hindu girl aged 14 was lured into a relationship by a Muslim man, Aftab Alam, who pretended to be a Hindu man named Raju. The accused sexually exploited the victim, then took obscene photographs of her and pressured her to marry him. After marriage she was compelled to convert to Islam, alongside constant threats and physical assault. As per the victim, the accused had similarly converted several other Hindu women to Islam. This came to light when the victim revealed her ordeal in May 2026. At this time, she was an adult and a female Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) at Bokaro, though she had been targeted at just 14 years old. She appealed to police in Jharkhand's Bokaro district for justice. Following registration of a First Information Report at Bokaro Women's Police Station, police launched an investigation. They also summoned the accused to join it. In her complaint, the victim stated that in 2009, she was 14 years old and was training as an international-level athlete at a stadium in Bhopal. There, she met a young man named Raju, a resident of Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. The accused man began talking to her and began visiting her hostel without her knowledge. Gradually, he lured her into a romantic relationship and had sexual relations with her under the pretext of marriage. The woman stated that the accused also secretly clicked and kept objectionable photographs of her. After she got a job with the CISF in 2016, the accused asked her for her Aadhaar card to marry her. He took her to the marriage registrar's office in Ghaziabad, where he changed her surname to Alam. That was when she discovered his true name and religious identity. After this, when the woman refused to marry him, the accused threatened to publish her nude photos online. Frightened, she gave in and married him. Soon after, he forcibly took out a loan in her name. During their marriage, she bore him a daughter. The woman also stated that the accused often assaulted her, did not allow her to perform puja and constantly pressured her to convert to Islam. He also tried to brainwash her for conversion by claiming that conversion would give her "heavenly blessings". The woman also said that her daughter was also physically assaulted in her absence, and she has proof of this. Even the accused's family was complicit in the crime. The victim also stated that the accused had similarly converted several other Hindu women to Islam. At the time of writing this report, the victim demanded justice from the police. The police registered a case and began an investigation.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The first primary category selected is- Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary categories selected are- Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of Minor and Victim says was brainwashed/groomed. 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 second primary category selected in this case is- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary categories selected are- Name changed, Pattern of targeting Hindus. When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by malafide intentions. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc), or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. The other subcategory selected is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary categories selected are- Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of Minor and Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed. 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. The other subcategory selected is- Forced conversion after marriage. In such cases, a non-Hindu man marries a Hindu woman, and the force/pressure to convert to any Abrahamic faith, like Islam, begins after marriage. 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. The marriage could be under the Special Marriages Act, where neither parties are required to convert their religion for the marriage to be considered legitimate. While the victim in such cases enters matrimony assuming that religious identity is not a barrier, the non-Hindu man starts to pressure the woman to convert her religion after marriage. 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 situations, there is application of force by the perpetrator, including the denial of the woman’s religious rights. Some of the means by which the woman is forced/pressured to convert include force-feeding beef, being forced to read the Kalma, being forced to wear a hijab, forced to undergo Halala, etc. There are several instances where, after marriage, the woman voluntarily converts to Islam. Such cases are often argued to be a result of religious brainwashing, however, for the purpose of documenting religiously motivated hate crimes, in the absence of the victim complaining of forced conversion, such cases do not form a part of the database. The other subcategory selected is- Blackmailed to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman is blackmailed to convert her religion, owing to her religious identity of being a Hindu. 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 man starts blackmailing a Hindu woman to convert her religion. In these cases, it is often seen that the Hindu woman is blackmailed with intimate photos and/or videos, threats of harm to her or her 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- 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. This case stands as a clear example of a religiously motivated hate crime, where a minor Hindu girl was lured into a relationship, sexually exploited under the pretext of marriage, and then pressured to marry the Muslim perpetrator, Aftab Alam. After marriage, she endured relentless pressure to convert to Islam, alongside blackmail, threats, and physical assaults by the perpetrator. She also faced systematic religious indoctrination to abandon her Hindu faith, revealing the crime's core drive as anti-Hindu hostility rather than mere personal gain. The victim was a minor aged 14 at the time, stripping away any notion of consent from the outset. Minors lack the maturity to grasp the lifelong consequences of relationships with adults or religious conversion, rendering them highly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. The Muslim perpetrator deliberately exploited this age vulnerability, targeting the young Hindu girl's innocence to sexually assault her and coerce her into Islam. This predatory selection of a minor Hindu victim underscores a calculated religious agenda rooted in anti-Hindu animosity, making it a textbook case of religiously motivated hate crime. The perpetrator's act of deception by posing as a Hindu demonstrated clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By hiding his true identity, Alam manipulated the Hindu girl's trust and targeted her under false pretences, indicating a premeditated effort to exploit her based on her religious background. This constituted a direct violation of her right to informed consent regarding whom she chooses to be in a relationship with, as well as an infringement upon her religious beliefs. Thus, the perpetrator's deliberate decision to hide his religious identity strongly underscored the religious motive behind this crime. In such instances, identity concealment is not just a deceptive tactic for personal reasons but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The accused knew that the victim, being Hindu, would likely refuse his advances if she knew his real identity, and he circumvented this by lying, which directly pointed to religiously driven intent. This deception reflects a larger pattern where Hindu women and minor girls are specifically singled out using false identities by Muslim men. Such targeted victimisation based on religion demonstrates a fundamental disregard for Hinduism and exposes deeper animosity towards Hindu girls and their beliefs, making it a religiously driven hate crime. Under this false Hindu identity, the perpetrator sexually exploited the victim through rape, an act rooted not in simple gratification but in religious animosity aimed at violating a Hindu minor's body and spirit. By luring her with pretences of shared faith and marriage, he degraded her sacred Hindu identity, using religiously motivated rape as a tool to dominate her, break her spirit, and render her most vulnerable to further manipulation and coercion for conversion. This targeted assault on a Hindu girl highlights how the exploitation served a bigger purpose of subjugation and conversion, marking it as a clear case of religiously motivated hate crime. The victim faced intense pressure to marry the perpetrator through blackmail with her obscene photos, a tactic that trapped her further in a forced union designed for religious conversion. This marriage imposed total domination, stripping her autonomy and paving the way for Islamisation, exposing the perpetrator's predatory malice and transforming personal coercion into a hate crime fuelled by anti-Hindu intent. Right after marriage, relentless pressure mounted to convert her to Islam, with the perpetrator banning puja, subjecting her to brutal beatings for clinging to Hindu rituals, and isolating her from any expression of her faith, all showcasing his profound religious animosity towards Hinduism. He targeted her devotion, stopped her from praying, and repeatedly asserted Islamic superiority to erode her beliefs. Forced conversion brutally violated her religious autonomy and fundamental right to freely choose and practise her faith, systematically erasing her Hindu identity through this oppressive indoctrination. This merciless assault on her spiritual core wounded not just her but the wider Hindu community, stirring collective pain and outrage, while reflecting a fanatical zeal to dismantle Hindu beliefs, traditions, and selfhood in order to impose Islam by force, epitomising religiously motivated hate crime. The victim endured constant religious indoctrination as the perpetrator dangled promises of heavenly blessings and eternal rewards to brainwash her into embracing Islamic beliefs. He relentlessly targeted her Hindu prayers, forbade all rituals, and drilled supremacist Islamic teachings day after day, aiming to sever her deep Hindu roots, childhood devotion to Hindu deities, and lifelong cultural ties. These manipulative tactics sought to completely uproot her original faith and replace it with alien doctrines, forging a new Muslim identity upon the ruins of her Hindu self. This systematic erasure exposes the perpetrator's ruthless mission to annihilate her religious essence, confirming it as a clear case of religiously motivated hate crime. The victim suffered ongoing blackmail through threats to publish her compromising nude photos online, coupled with repeated physical assaults and savage beatings explicitly aimed at coercing her conversion. He weaponised these horrors, escalating violence whenever she resisted abandoning Hinduism, revealing his fanatical willingness to destroy her body and soul to strip away her faith. Driven by zealous religious supremacy and profound animosity towards Hinduism and the entire Hindu community, this unyielding brutality cements the case as religiously motivated hate crime. The victim stated that her young daughter endured brutal physical assaults during her absences, a calculated cruelty designed to shatter her maternal spirit and compel submission to the conversion demands. By viciously targeting the innocent child with beatings and terror, the perpetrator amplified unbearable psychological torment, weaponising familial bonds to break the mother's will. This heartless strategy underscored his malicious intent to dominate, humiliate, and forcibly convert not just her but the entire family unit. The fact that the accused targeted multiple Hindu women in exactly the same manner, luring them with deception, sexually exploiting them, forcibly converting them through coercion, blackmail, and violence, reveals a disturbing pattern of religiously motivated predation against Hindus. He viewed Hindu women not as human beings worthy of respect but as mere sex objects to enjoy, discard, and conquer through violation, while seeing them primarily as prime targets for conversion to Islam. This systematic religious profiling, blending sexual violence with aggressive proselytisation, exposes a blueprint of hate, where Hindu identity becomes the bullseye for degradation and forced Islamisation, unequivocally marking it as a hate crime. These instances of targeted proselytisation stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths like Islam believe that any non-adherent to their faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert, making it a religiously motivated crime against Hindus. Therefore, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the victim's ordeal began, rather than when it was reported in the media. In this case, media reports did not state the exact date when the victim's ordeal began. They simply noted that it started in 2009, without specifying the precise date of her suffering. The media reports for this case were published on 5 May 2026. Based on this, an indicative incident date of 5 May 2009 has been selected for documentation purposes only. In this case, the victim narrated her ordeal in Bokaro, but she was first targeted when she was in Bhopal. Henceforth, the place of incidence has been recorded as Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. In this case, even though the victim stated that multiple Hindu women were targeted similarly, the total number of victims was not specified. Henceforth, the victim count has been recorded as one, referring to the CISF victim alone.
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 1
- Adult 0
- 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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