Multiple Hindu minor girls trapped and pressured to convert by Muslim youth in Hamirpur

Case ID : 30a8aa8 | Location : Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 2 May, 2026

Case ID : 30a8aa8

Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

2 May, 2026

Multiple Hindu minor girls trapped and pressured to convert by Muslim youth in Hamirpur

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Conversion of minor

Pattern of targeting Hindu minors

Blackmailed to convert

Case Summary

Multiple Hindu minor girls from Jhalokhar village, Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, were lured into romantic relationships on social media by Aman Khan, a Muslim resident of the same village, who posted their photographs on social media and subjected them to conversion pressure. Hindu organisations demanded strict action against Aman Khan and highlighted the case as part of a documented pattern of targeting Hindu minor girls in the same locality. As per details, Aman Khan befriended multiple Hindu minor girls on social media, trapped them in romantic relationships, and posted their photographs on social media platforms. He subjected the girls to conversion pressure as part of a sustained grooming operation. At least one of the victims was confirmed to be from the Dalit Hindu community. A separate Muslim youth from the same Jhalokhar area, identified only as Khan, also had objectionable videos and photographs of a Hindu minor girl go viral on social media around the same time, reflecting a concurrent pattern of targeting in the same locality. Hindu organisation leaders stated that a prior similar case had occurred in Jhalokhar involving Affan Khan, who had committed a similar act of targeting Hindu minor girls through social media, establishing a documented pattern of repeated targeting of Hindu minor girls in the same village by Muslim youths. Leaders demanded that a memorandum be submitted to the administration demanding strict action against such perpetrators to crush their confidence. No police action was confirmed at the time of publication. Hindu organisations also noted the absence of Dalit-focused organisations such as Bhim Army from this case despite the victim being from the Dalit community.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category for this case is "Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes". The sub-category for this case is "Brainwashed and/or groomed". The tertiary categories for this case are "Conversion of minor" 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. Another sub-category for this case 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. Aman Khan did not approach Hindu minor girls randomly. He identified them on social media, cultivated romantic relationships with them over a sustained period, and then used the photographs he had obtained through those relationships as instruments of blackmail and conversion pressure. The posting of the girls' photographs on social media was not an act of personal expression. It was a deliberate deployment of those images as coercive tools, designed to create a condition of social vulnerability in which the minor girls would be more susceptible to conversion demands in order to prevent further public exposure of their photographs. 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 Muslim perpetrator 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, which is why it has been documented here in the hate tracker. The targeting of multiple Hindu minor girls simultaneously is the most significant operational marker in this case. Aman Khan did not groom a single girl. He cultivated relationships with several Hindu minor girls concurrently, establishing that the operation was structured and deliberate rather than the product of a single personal attachment. The concurrent targeting of multiple Hindu minors through the same social media grooming and blackmail methodology reflects an organised and repeating operational template rather than individual criminal conduct. The prior case involving Affan Khan, son of Maulana Khan, in the same village of Jhalokhar, using the same methodology, establishes that the targeting of Hindu minor girls through social media grooming in Jhalokhar is not an isolated incident. It is a documented pattern within the same locality, involving multiple perpetrators who deploy the same operational template against the same target community. A village in which multiple Muslim youths have independently targeted Hindu minor girls through social media grooming and blackmail across separate incidents is not experiencing random criminal activity. It is experiencing a coordinated and culturally normalised pattern of predatory targeting of Hindu minor girls. Given that this case met the parameters of a religiously motivated hate crime, Aman Khan's conduct reflected more than criminal harassment or social media misconduct. By grooming multiple Hindu minor girls simultaneously through false romantic relationships, posting their photographs as blackmail instruments, and subjecting them to conversion pressure, his actions demonstrated a deliberate and organised campaign targeting Hindu minor girls specifically because their Hindu identity and their minority status within the village made them the most accessible and most vulnerable targets for a conversion operation conducted through social media. This reflects an underlying hostility toward Hindu religious identity that cannot be characterised as anything other than religiously motivated. Given that this case met the parameters of a religiously motivated hate crime, it was added to the hate crime database of the tracker. Disclaimer: The tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, not when it was reported or published. In this case, however, the exact date on which Aman Khan began grooming the Hindu minor girls was not confirmed in the source. Therefore, 3 May 2026 has been used as the indicative incident date, reflecting the publication date as the earliest available reference point. This date has been recorded for documentation purposes only.