Hindu woman raped, coerced to undergo abortion and pressured for religious conversion by Muslim man in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh

Case ID : 30a8c12 | Location : Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 1 March, 2026

Case ID : 30a8c12

Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India

1 March, 2026

Hindu woman raped, coerced to undergo abortion and pressured for religious conversion by Muslim man in Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Forced conversion before marriage

Case Summary

In the Dhampur city, Bijnor district, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was raped, coerced to undergo an abortion and pressured for religious conversion by a Muslim doctor named Dr Faizan. According to reports, the victim, who had been working at the Shifa Nursing home for approximately one year, lodged a complaint with the Dhampur police station on 31 May 2026, following which a case was registered against Dr Faizan, and he was taken into police custody for questioning. According to the complaint, the incident began around three months earlier, in March 2026, when the victim was alone on duty at the nursing home during the night. Dr Faizan took advantage of the situation and forcibly raped her inside the facility. When the victim objected and threatened to approach the police, he sought to prevent legal action by promising to marry her. Trusting his assurances, the victim continued the relationship. However, Dr Faizan subsequently continued to have sexual relations with her while maintaining the promise of marriage, resulting in her becoming pregnant. The victim further stated that throughout this period, Dr Faizan repeatedly pressured her to abandon her faith and convert to Islam. When she informed him about her pregnancy and demanded that he fulfil his promise of marriage, his behaviour changed. Dr Faizan and his mother refused to accept responsibility and subjected her to harassment and pressure to terminate the pregnancy. The woman stated that she was ultimately forced to undergo an abortion, causing her severe physical and emotional distress. During the course of events, the victim discovered that Dr Faizan was already married and had concealed this fact while assuring her of marriage. The complaint also mentioned the involvement of several other individuals whom the victim accused of sexually exploiting her, prompting the police to investigate whether other persons connected to the nursing home had participated in or facilitated the abuse. The incident generated significant public outrage in the Dhampur area. Members of several Hindu organisations, led by local leader Dr N.P. Singh gathered at the police station and demanded strict legal action against the accused. They submitted memoranda to the police administration and urged authorities to ensure justice for the victim. Following the complaint, police registered a case against Dr Faizan under relevant criminal provisions, including charges relating to rape, forced abortion, and unlawful religious conversion. The victim was sent for medical examination, and police initiated a detailed investigation into all aspects of the case. Authorities confirmed that the accused had been taken into custody and that further action would be taken based on the evidence collected during the investigation.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within it, the sub-category selected 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 a Hindu woman was raped, sexually exploited, pressured to convert to Islam, and forced to undergo an abortion by a Muslim doctor, Dr Faizan, who exploited his position of authority as the owner of a nursing home in Dhampur, Uttar Pradesh. According to the complaint, the victim was subjected to sustained abuse over a period of time, during which the accused used deception, coercion, and religious pressure to dominate and control her. The case goes beyond sexual violence and raises serious concerns about the targeting of a Hindu woman on account of her religious identity. Firstly, the victim was subjected to rape and repeated sexual exploitation by the accused. According to the complaint, after sexually assaulting the woman, the accused sought to prevent legal consequences by offering a promise of marriage. This promise was used as a tool to maintain control over the victim and continue exploiting her sexually. Importantly, the accused was already married and concealed this fact from the victim, demonstrating that the promise was never intended to culminate in a genuine marital relationship. Instead, it served as a mechanism to keep the victim trapped in a cycle of abuse and dependency. The religious dimension of the offence becomes evident when the sexual exploitation is viewed alongside the subsequent attempts to alter the victim's religious identity. The victim was not merely deceived into a relationship; she was repeatedly pressured to abandon her Hindu faith and embrace Islam. This indicates that the exploitation was not solely motivated by sexual gratification but was intertwined with efforts to subordinate and transform the victim's religious identity. Such conduct reflects hostility towards the victim's Hindu faith because the accused sought not only physical control over her but also the erasure of an integral aspect of her identity. The target was therefore not merely the woman as an individual but also her existence as a Hindu woman. The specific focus on changing her religious identity demonstrates that the offence carried a religiously motivated dimension, making it far more than an ordinary crime of sexual exploitation. Secondly, the forced conversion aspect of the case further strengthens the hate crime element. According to the complaint, the accused repeatedly pressured the victim to renounce Hinduism and convert to Islam. Pressuring a Hindu individual to abandon her faith and adopt another religion constitutes a direct attack on her religious identity, dignity, and freedom of conscience. Such actions are not expressions of personal preference or religious persuasion occurring on equal terms; rather, they become coercive when accompanied by deception, abuse of authority, sexual exploitation, and emotional manipulation. In this case, the pressure to convert occurred in a context where the accused had already established control over the victim through rape and false promises of marriage, thereby undermining any possibility of genuine consent. Furthermore, the complaint indicates that the victim's resistance to the accused's demands did not result in the pressure ceasing. Instead, the accused continued to exploit her sexually while simultaneously attempting to secure her conversion. The combination of sexual abuse and conversion pressure is significant because sexual violence in such circumstances functions not only as a means of physical domination but also as a tool of religious humiliation and coercion. The objective is to weaken the victim emotionally, psychologically, and socially so that she becomes more vulnerable to demands that she abandon her faith. Such conduct reflects an effort to break the victim's attachment to her religious identity and replace it with another faith through coercive means. The systematic nature of the abuse, coupled with repeated attempts to alter the victim's religion, points towards religious animosity and demonstrates that the victim's Hindu identity was a central factor in the commission of the offence. 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. Therefore, this case qualifies for inclusion in the tracker because it involved the rape and sustained sexual exploitation of a Hindu woman, deception through a false promise of marriage, pressure to abandon her Hindu faith and convert to Islam, and coercion surrounding her pregnancy and abortion. The convergence of sexual violence, religious coercion, and efforts to erase the victim's Hindu identity indicates that the offence was not merely a personal dispute or an isolated criminal act. Rather, it represented a targeted attack on a Hindu woman in which her religious identity formed a significant component of the abuse, thereby bringing the case within the ambit of a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case has specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that she was raped by the accused, about three months ago, in March 2026. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 2 March 2026, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 2 June 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.