Minor Hindu girl subjected to repeated sexual assault and conversion pressure by her father, after his conversion to Christianity
Jhunjhunun, Rajasthan, India 
1 May, 2026
Case Summary
A Hindu minor girl from a village in the Chidawa police station area, Jhunjhunu district, Rajasthan, was subjected to sustained sexual assault and conversion pressure by her own father, who had earlier converted to Christianity and was working as a Christian missionary. According to reports, the victim's father had converted to Christianity approximately 7 to 8 years ago, around 2018-2019, and had since been working as a Christian missionary. He had been continuously pressuring his family members to convert to Christianity. The incident surfaced after the minor girl telephoned her uncle and broke down while recounting the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her father. During the conversation, she revealed that her father had repeatedly forced her into sexual relations and that she was living in constant fear and distress inside the house. She was also subjected to sustained pressure to convert from Hinduism to Christianity. The victim further stated that she could no longer endure the situation and threatened to take her own life if she was not rescued immediately. The minor girl disclosed the sustained abuse to her uncle in a phone call, the recording of which was in the uncle's possession at the time of the complaint. Upon learning of the incident, villagers and social workers expressed heavy outrage. A large number of villagers and social workers reached the Chidawa DSP office on 2 May 2026, demanding strict action against the accused. DSP Vikas Dhindhwal assured the villagers and family members that the matter would be investigated seriously and that strict legal action would be taken. Police registered a case and began an investigation into all aspects of the matter.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category for this case is "Predatory Proselytisation". The sub-category for this case 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 sub-category for this case is "Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination". The tertiary categories are "Conversion of minor" and "Rape and sexual assault/harassment". 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. This case has been added to the because a Hindu minor girl was subjected to sustained sexual assault and conversion pressure by her own father, who had earlier converted to Christianity and was working as a Christian missionary. The conduct directed at the Hindu minor girl in this case was not the act of a stranger or an external predator. It was perpetrated by her own father, within the family home, in a condition of total captivity from which the minor had no means of independent escape. The father's conversion to Christianity 7 to 8 years ago and his subsequent work as a Christian missionary established the ideological framework within which the sexual assault and conversion pressure must be understood. The two acts were not separate or coincidental. They were deployed simultaneously as instruments of a single operation: the coercion of a Hindu minor into abandoning her faith through the combined application of sexual violation and religious pressure. It is further important to note here that the victim was a minor, 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 Christian perpetrator, the victim's father, purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religious conversion, it is a blatant act of religious hate, In this case, the victim was sexually exploited by her own father. The father did not merely pressure his daughter to convert through argument, inducement, or social isolation. He subjected her to repeated sexual assault while simultaneously demanding her conversion to Christianity. The combination of these two acts within the same sustained course of conduct establishes that the sexual violation was integral to the conversion operation rather than separate from it. In such cases, sexual violence serves a dual purpose: physical subjugation and religious humiliation. The intention was to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she could be converted. This was not random exploitation; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. The victim’s statement that she would take her own life if she was not rescued demonstrated the extreme psychological trauma and coercive environment she had been subjected to inside her own home. The suicidal distress expressed by a minor girl reflected not merely fear of physical abuse, but the complete collapse of emotional security, personal autonomy, and familial protection under sustained sexual exploitation and religious pressure. The father's role as a Christian missionary is a significant contextual marker. A man who converts to Christianity and subsequently works as a missionary has adopted not merely a personal faith but an active role in the institutional expansion of that faith. The Christian faith, by its very theological foundations, places a strong emphasis on proselytisation. In pursuit of conversion objectives, Christian evangelists often employ unethical means, ranging from psychological pressure and misinformation to inducements such as money or jobs. These tactics are designed not as acts of charity but as tools to engineer religious change. This systematic attempt to erode the religious foundation of individuals and replace it with allegiance to another faith reflects deep religious malice and animus against the Hindu identity. Because the core motivation of the act stems from hostility toward the victim’s religion, it meets the threshold of a hate crime. Hence, categorised as a hate crime in the database. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred rather than when it was reported or published. This case involved a sustained course of conduct over an extended period, during which the Hindu minor girl was subjected to repeated sexual assault and conversion pressure by her father. 2 May 2026 has been used as the primary incident date, reflecting the confirmed date when the social workers and villagers gathered at the police station to file complaint. This date is used for documentation purposes only.
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
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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