Minor Hindu girl lured and raped by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Maharashtra's Amravati

Case ID : 30a877f | Location : Amravati, Maharashtra, India | Date of Incident : Mon, 18 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a877f

Amravati, Maharashtra, India

18 May, 2026

Minor Hindu girl lured and raped by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu in Maharashtra's Amravati

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Man pretends to be Hindu

Name Changed

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Case Summary

In Achalpur, also known as Paratwada, in the Amravati district of Maharashtra, a minor Dalit Hindu girl, aged 15, was lured, raped, and blackmailed by a Muslim man who concealed his identity using a fake Hindu name, “Kapoor”. The victim was repeatedly raped and threatened after the accused took her to a secluded field in the village in the early days of May 2026. He intimidated her with threats of defamation to silence her and continued to sexually abuse her for a prolonged period. Unable to endure the harassment any longer, the girl finally informed her parents, following which a police complaint was filed. Police investigation exposed the accused’s true identity, after which he was arrested. A case was registered against him under sections of the Indian Penal Code for rape, along with provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The incident triggered outrage across the area, with local public representatives condemning the crime and demanding strict action against all those who had assisted the accused. The police stated that further investigation into the matter was being taken very seriously.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is being added to the tracker under the primary category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category selected is- Name Changed. 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 category selected 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. This case bears the clear markers of a religiously motivated hate crime because a minor Hindu girl was specifically targeted by a Muslim man who deliberately concealed his religious identity behind a fake Hindu name, “Kapoor”, in order to gain her trust and access to her. Firstly, the deception was not incidental but central to the crime itself. By falsely presenting himself as Hindu, the accused manipulated the victim under false pretences, fully aware that revealing his real identity could have affected her willingness to engage with him. Such calculated concealment demonstrates premeditated religious targeting and a deliberate violation of the victim’s right to informed consent. The exploitation of the victim through identity fraud reflects hostility towards her religious identity and an intentional abuse of trust rooted in religious profiling. This was not merely interpersonal deception, but a targeted act in which religion became a tool for manipulation, exploitation and domination. This deception reflects a larger pattern where Hindu women and minor girls are specifically singled out using false identities by Muslim men, often with coercion, sexual exploitation, or conversion in mind. Such targeted victimisation based on religion not only demonstrates a fundamental disregard for Hinduism but also exposes a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. Secondly, the Hindu girl was repeatedly sexually assaulted, threatened and blackmailed after being lured through false identity. The accused used threats of defamation to silence the victim and continue the abuse, creating an atmosphere of coercion, fear and psychological control. Such exploitation cannot be separated from the religious deception that enabled it in the first place. The crime involved the deliberate targeting of a Hindu girl through concealed identity, manipulation and sustained abuse, making the religious dimension inseparable from the violence inflicted upon her. The pattern of deception, intimidation and exploitation in this case clearly demonstrates a religiously motivated act directed against the victim because of her Hindu identity. Such an instance is not a random act of sexual exploitation; it is a targeted assault driven by religious bias, aimed at singling out and violating a Hindu girl because of her religious identity. Such acts of exploitation by manipulation and religious profiling clearly underline the religiously motivated nature of this crime. Thirdly, it is important to consider that the victim is a minor. This meant the element of consent and any 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 cannot fully understand and identify predatory luring and religious deception by adults. The perpetrator had purposely targeted and exploited the vulnerability of the minor victim. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religiously driven sexual exploitation, it is a blatant act of a religiously motivated hate crime against Hindus. Given that this case meets the parameters of a religiously motivated offence, it is being added to the hate crime database of the tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurs rather than when it is reported in the media. In this case, media reports did not specify the exact date of the incident and only mentioned that it took place during the early days of May 2026. Since no precise incident date is available, the media reporting date of 19 May 2026 has been selected as the indicative incident date for documentation purposes only.