Minor Dalit Hindu girl drugged and abducted by Muslim man; converted to Islam and forcefully fed beef

Case ID : 30a880e | Location : Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Wed, 13 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a880e

Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

13 May, 2026

Minor Dalit Hindu girl drugged and abducted by Muslim man; converted to Islam and forcefully fed beef

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Case Summary

In Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, a minor Dalit Hindu girl was drugged and abducted by a Muslim man. According to Swami Yashveer Maharaj, the Muslim accused, resident of Amirnagar village under the Titavi police station area, had been troubling the family for some time. As a result, the Hindu family had temporarily left the village and moved to Punjab, where they began working at a brick kiln. However, the accused also reached Punjab. He drugged the victim with an intoxicating substance and brought the minor girl back with him to Amirnagar village. There, he converted her to Islam and forcefully fed her beef. The victim’s family stated that they repeatedly approached the Titavi police station to file a complaint regarding the abduction of the minor girl. However, instead of taking prompt action, the police kept sending them from one place to another. The family expressed anger over the police inaction and demanded a fair investigation, along with the immediate recovery of the minor girl. Following the incident, Swami Yashveer Maharaj linked the case to “Love Jihad” and religious conversion and warned that if the girl was not recovered and strict action was not taken against the accused by 24 May 2026, a Mahapanchayat would be organised in the region. He stated that anger over the incident was increasing within the local Hindu community and that large numbers of people were preparing to launch an agitation. At the time of reporting, the police administration had not issued any detailed official statement regarding the case. However, police sources stated that an investigation into the matter was underway and that further action would be taken based on the facts emerging during the probe.

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 - Harassment, threat, 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. This case carries multiple clear religious markers because the minor Hindu girl was not only abducted after being drugged, but was also converted to Islam and forcefully fed beef after being taken away from her family. The sequence of acts described by the family points towards a deliberate attempt to break the girl’s connection with her Hindu identity through coercion, isolation, and religious humiliation. A major religious marker in this case was the forced feeding of beef to the minor Hindu girl. In Hinduism, the cow holds deep religious and cultural significance, and force feeding beef to a Hindu is not a neutral act of feeding or dietary change. It directly violates deeply held religious beliefs and is often experienced by Hindu victims as an attack on their faith, purity, and religious identity. In this case, the act took place after the girl had already been abducted and converted, making it part of a larger process of religious coercion and symbolic breaking of her Hindu identity. Another significant marker was the conversion of a minor girl after she was drugged and taken away from her family. A minor is far more vulnerable to manipulation, coercion, and psychological influence because children are not cognitively mature enough to fully recognise predatory behaviour or make life-altering decisions relating to religion and conversion independently. The circumstances described by the family indicate that the accused exploited the girl’s age, isolation, and compromised condition to impose a different religious identity upon her. Since the underlying offence in this case is against a child of a specific faith and involves subtle tactics of indoctrination, which obviously stems from a bias against the Hindu faith, this case has been documented as a hate crime. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, not when it was reported or published in the media. In this case, the exact date when the Hindu minor girl first came into contact with the Muslim perpetrator was not specified in the available sources. Therefore, 14th May 2026, the date on which the incident was publicly reported, was used as the indicative incident date for documentation purposes only.