Minor Hindu sisters abducted, raped and forcibly converted by Muslim man posing as Hindu; accused targeted several Hindu girls and women
Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 
4 May, 2025
Case Summary
In Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, two minor Hindu sisters were abducted, raped and forcibly converted by a Muslim man named Ahmed, who pretended to be Hindu. The incident came to light after the victim's father approached the Superintendent of Police seeking urgent intervention. The Muslim accused, Ahmed, concealed his religious identity by presenting himself as a Hindu man named Raj in order to gain the trust of the victims and lure them into his influence. According to the police investigation, the accused lured and abducted the minor Hindu sisters, aged 17 and 15, on 5 May 2025 and took them away from their home district. Their family searched extensively for them for months but was unable to trace them. It was later revealed that the girls had been kept in Kishauchha, located in the Baskhari area of Ambedkar Nagar, with the assistance of several associates identified as Mulla alias Amaruddin, Pujan, Ehtram, Azim, and other unidentified individuals who helped the accused shelter and control the victims. During the investigation, the police recovered both sisters from a rented accommodation in Rasulpur New Colony in the Kishauchha area. The investigation revealed that after abducting the girls, the accused initially took them to Ghaziabad before later shifting them to Kishauchha. There, he forcibly converted both the sisters to Islam with the support of his associates. Furthermore, after religious conversion, he also changed the name of the younger sister and forcibly married her. Police stated that both girls were repeatedly raped while being confined in the rented accommodation. During this period, the younger sister became pregnant and later gave birth to a child approximately two months before the police recovered the victims. Investigators further discovered that the accused had been in contact with several other Hindu girls and women and suspected that he had been attempting to similarly influence and convert them through deception and grooming. The accused, also identified in another police report as Raj alias Arman, son of Mansoor and resident of Bazaar Gosai in Azamgarh district, was arrested on 14 May 2026 by the Bewana police station team from the road connecting Rampur Sakrwari to Ashrafabad. The arrest was carried out under the supervision of senior police officials as part of an operation targeting wanted criminals. Police registered charges under Sections 137(2), 87, and 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Sections 5 and 6 of the POCSO Act, and Sections 3 and 5 of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021. Following his arrest, the accused was produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category - Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the subcategory selected is - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary category selected under this is - Conversion of minor, Rape and sexual assault/harassment and 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 sub-category selected here 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. The other sub-category selected here is - Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Man pretends to be Hindu, with the tertiary category being - Name changed and Pattern of targeting Hindu women. 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 sub-category selected here is - Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary category selected under this is- Conversion of minor, Rape and sexual assault/harassment and Pattern of targeting Hindu minors. 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 sub-category selected here is - Forced conversion before marriage. 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 has been added to the tracker because it involved the abduction, rape, forced religious conversion, and sexual exploitation of two minor Hindu sisters by a Muslim man named Ahmed, who concealed his religious identity by posing as a Hindu named “Raj” in order to gain the trust of the victims. The case demonstrated a deliberate pattern of deception, grooming, coercion, and religious targeting directed at vulnerable Hindu minor girls. Firstly, it is important to note that both victims were minors, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They may not have the ability to fully understand the implications of converting to another religion, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. The targeting of minor Hindu girls for conversion through deception and coercion constituted a direct attack on their religious identity and personal autonomy. Such acts were not merely criminal offences but reflected a deeper ideological hostility towards the victims’ Hindu faith and identity. Such acts are not merely criminal in nature; they are ideologically charged, revealing religious prejudice and a calculated intent to alter the religious identity of a minor without her volition. The use of grooming, where trust is built only to exploit, is an insidious method that exploits the child’s naivety and dependence. Secondly, the accused deliberately concealed his Muslim identity and introduced himself as “Raj” in order to establish trust with the Hindu victims. This itself is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By concealing his true identity, he exploited their trust, targeting her under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate her based on her religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to manipulate and "ensnare" Hindu individuals is not just an act of personal betrayal but can also be interpreted as an expression of disdain or disregard for Hinduism and its customs that reflects a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. Thirdly, the accused abducted the two Hindu minor sisters, transported them away from their home district, confined them in rented accommodation, and subjected them to repeated sexual exploitation. Police investigations revealed that the younger sister was forcibly converted to Islam, had her name changed, and was married to the accused while still a minor. During captivity, she became pregnant and later gave birth to a child. The elder sister was also forcibly converted to Islam. These exploitations were not random acts of crime; rather, they functioned as religiously motivated tools aimed at humiliating and dominating a Hindu girl because of her faith. The target was not the victim as an individual, but her Hindu identity. The specific focus on her Hindu identity in the commission of these acts highlights the religious hatred underlying the crime. Fourth, in Islam, marriage to a non-Muslim partner is prohibited, which was why the younger sister was converted to Islam before marriage. Simultaneously, the elder sister was also forcibly converted to Islam. Pressuring Hindu individuals to discard their religious faith and embrace another was a direct attack on their religious identity and dignity. It was not a matter of personal choice; it was coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act was not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith. Fifthly, the combination of abduction, confinement, rape, forced conversion, and coercive marriage illustrated a broader pattern in which sexual violence was used not only for physical exploitation but also as a means of religious domination and humiliation. The victims were isolated from their family and community, deprived of agency, and subjected to sustained abuse in an environment designed to facilitate their religious conversion and control. Such acts targeted the victims specifically because they were Hindu girls and reflected hostility towards their religious identity. Furthermore, this was not an isolated incident confined to the two victims alone. During the investigation, police discovered that the accused had been in contact with several other Hindu girls and women and that he had been attempting to similarly influence and convert them through deception and grooming. The repeated targeting of Hindu females specifically because of their religious identity demonstrated that the accused’s actions were not random or merely personal in nature, but were rooted in religious animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents. The systematic use of deception, conversion, and sexual exploitation against Hindu girls reflected a deliberate attempt to undermine and erase their religious identity, thereby reinforcing the religiously motivated character of the crime. Such actions stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. Such acts were not merely personal crimes; they were rooted in a desire to dominate and erase the religious identity of the victim. 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 incidents based on when an event occurred or when the victim's ordeal began. It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case has specified the exact date when the accused began luring the victim. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the accused abducted the victims, 5 May 2025. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker acknowledges that multiple individuals were involved in the abduction, confinement, forced religious conversion, and sexual exploitation of the two Hindu minor sisters. However, only five individuals were explicitly identified in the available reports: Raj alias Ahmed (also referred to as Raj alias Arman), Mulla alias Amaruddin, Pujan, Ehtram, and Azim. Although the reports also referred to the involvement of other unidentified associates, their identities were not disclosed publicly. Therefore, for documentation purposes, the perpetrator count in this case has been recorded as five.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 2
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 2
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Case sub-judice
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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