Hindu woman sexually exploited, pressured to convert to Islam and undergo nikah; abandoned by Muslim man after refusing conversion

Case ID : 30a8da8 | Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | Date of Incident : Sun, 7 June, 2015

Case ID : 30a8da8

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

7 June, 2015

Hindu woman sexually exploited, pressured to convert to Islam and undergo nikah; abandoned by Muslim man after refusing conversion

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Forced conversion before marriage

Forced to do Nikah

Leaves Hindu partner upon refusal to convert

Case Summary

In Mumbai, Maharashtra, a Hindu female model was lured, sexually exploited, pressured to convert to Islam, and forced to undergo Nikah (Islamic marriage) by a Muslim man named Mohammad Wasim. The victim also stated that Wasim and his family subjected her to physical, mental, and financial abuse over a period of 10 to 11 years. Following her complaint, the Meerut Police launched an investigation into the matter. The victim was originally a resident of Sardhana in Meerut. She went to Delhi in 2015 to pursue a modelling career and later went to Mumbai, where she met Mohammad Wasim. Wasim lured her with promises of making her a successful model and film heroine. After this, he asked her to permanently shift to Mumbai. The victim was then subsequently lured into a live-in relationship for nearly 11 years. During this period, Wasim repeatedly sexually exploited the victim on the promise of marriage. The victim first became pregnant in 2017 but was forced to undergo an abortion under pressure after Wasim refused to marry her, citing social stigma and career concerns. She was subsequently forced to undergo two more abortions under similar circumstances. Whenever she insisted on marriage, he physically assaulted her. She further stated that Wasim repeatedly pressured her to convert to Islam and made her conversion a condition for continuing the relationship and giving her the status of his wife. When she refused to renounce her Hindu faith and recite the Kalma (Islamic declaration of faith), Wasim ended the relationship and threw her out of the house. The victim also stated that Wasim exploited her financially by assuring her that he would advance her modelling career. During this period, she earned a substantial income through modelling, a significant portion of which was spent on Wasim and his family's expenses. As per reports, Wasim and his family siphoned off approximately 50 to 60 lakh rupees from her over the years. After leaving Wasim, the victim approached the office of the Senior Superintendent of Police in Meerut and narrated her ordeal. Based on the victim's complaint, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against Mohammad Wasim under charges relating to fraud, physical abuse, forced abortion, and the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act. At the time of writing this report, the police are investigating the matter, tracing the accused's location, and have deployed multiple teams to conduct raids in Mumbai and other possible hideouts to arrest him.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is being documented in the Hinduphobia Tracker under the primary category: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Forced conversion before marriage. The tertiary category selected is Forced to do Nikah. 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. The other subcategory selected for documenting this case is: Leaves Hindu partner upon refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces pressure/threats/violence to convert and change her religious identity by the non-Hindu man. However, when the Hindu woman refuses to convert, the non-Hindu man ends the relationship or divorces the woman, as the case might be. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressuring the Hindu woman to change her religious identity and upon her refusal, ends the relationship. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force, or threat after she refuses to convert to Islam, are not considered a part of the hate tracker. This case has been added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker due to a calculated pattern of targeting, severe exploitation, and faith-based persecution of the Hindu female victim. The Muslim perpetrator systematically lured the Hindu woman into a long-term relationship under the fraudulent pretext of marriage and career advancement, only to subject her to protracted sexual, religious, and financial exploitation. The climax of this abuse involved an ultimatum demanding her forced conversion to Islam and the performance of a Nikah, which is an Islamic marriage. When the victim resolutely refused to renounce her faith, the perpetrator instantly dehumanised, devalued, and abandoned her, forcibly evicting her from the shared residence. This trajectory, moving from strategic profiling to systematic exploitation and culminating in a punitive expulsion based entirely on religious non-compliance, establishes this incident as a textbook case of a religiously motivated hate crime. In this instance, the perpetrator’s transparency regarding his Muslim identity does not obscure the predatory nature of his actions; rather, it highlights a deliberate strategy of religious manipulation. The perpetrator actively deceived the Hindu woman into believing that their differing faiths would never pose a barrier to their romantic involvement. By deploying this specific, inclusive line of argument, he dismantled her defences and structural wariness, leveraging her aspirations of a modelling and acting career to draw her into his custody. Given that his ultimate objective was the total erasure of her religious identity through forced conversion, it is evident that the victim was profiled based on her Hindu faith from the very inception of the relationship. Targeting a Hindu woman specifically for her religion with the explicit, long-term intent of systematically dismantling and altering her faith demonstrates a deep-seated religious animosity toward the Hindu community and their faith, confirming the overall dynamics of a hate crime. Once the victim was entrenched within the relationship, the perpetrator subjected her to years of severe sexual exploitation, resulting in three coerced abortions. His refusal to formalise the marriage, under the guise of avoiding social stigma, was a calculated tool of control rather than a mere personal grievance. This continuous violation was not an isolated pursuit of sexual gratification; it was an act of targeted sexual violence aimed squarely at a Hindu woman because of her faith identity. Within the context of religiously driven hate crimes, sexual violence frequently operates as a mechanism of subjugation. By exploiting and violating the victim sexually, the perpetrator sought to establish absolute psychological dominance over her while simultaneously inflicting humiliation upon the broader Hindu community, anchoring the entire ordeal in religious malice. The medical trauma and psychological warfare of undergoing three consecutive abortions left the victim's state of mind completely ravaged. The perpetrator deliberately engineered and weaponised this profound emotional and physical vulnerability to intensify his campaign of coercion. Each instance of forced termination served to erode the victim's autonomy, making her progressively more susceptible to his ongoing harassment and manipulation. This continuous cycle of predatory degradation exposes the malicious intent behind the perpetrator’s actions, illustrating that the abuse was a sustained, calculated effort to break the victim’s psychological resistance, which further reinforces that this is a clear case of a hate crime. The main religious marker in this case, which proves the presence of deep religious hatred, was the demand that the victim convert to Islam as a strict requirement for marriage. After exploiting her trust and her body for more than ten years, the perpetrator used the promise of a secure home to force her into giving up her faith, demanding that she recite the Kalma and reject her Hindu heritage. This ultimatum shows a complete betrayal of the victim's trust, using her long-term commitment as a weapon to force a change in her religious identity. Forcing someone to convert is a direct violation of their religious autonomy, which is the absolute freedom and right of every person to choose, practise, and hold onto their own faith without outside coercion. By demanding that she erase her Hindu faith just to be treated with dignity and to get married, the perpetrator showed a clear hatred for her religious identity, proving that he did not respect her as an individual but instead wanted to destroy her connection to her faith. The intense pressure to undergo a Nikah was not an attempt to welcome her into a family, but was instead used as a tool to gain total control over her. In this abusive setup, the forced marriage was meant to make the perpetrator's dominance permanent by law and social rules, ensuring that the victim stayed subordinate and that her independent rights as a Hindu woman were completely wiped out. This behaviour clearly showcases the perpetrator's deep hatred for the victim because of her faith identity, as he refused to accept her as a Hindu woman. By treating her faith as something that had to be forcibly removed and replaced, he demonstrated that his ultimate goal was to dominate her completely and erase her religious identity, making this a clear example of a hate crime. When the victim demonstrated unyielding resilience and refused to convert to Islam under any circumstances, the perpetrator immediately discarded, abandoned, and evicted her. This instantaneous shift from partner to outcast proves that the victim was never viewed as a genuine companion; she was treated strictly as a target for conversion, financial siphoning, and sexual exploitation. The moment she asserted her religious autonomy, her utility to the perpetrator ended, prompting him to dump her without hesitation. This dehumanisation reveals that a conversion target had been placed on her from the outset, demonstrating that her existence was valued only to the extent that her faith could be erased and she could be forcefully converted to Islam, making it a clear case of a hate crime. The severity of this communal crime is further compounded by the continuous physical assaults and financial exploitation the victim endured throughout the eleven-year period. The perpetrator and his family systematically siphoned off an estimated 50 to 60 lakh rupees from her modelling earnings, effectively asset-stripping her while subjecting her to physical violence whenever she requested marital accountability. This total economic and physical subjugation underscores the absolute asymmetric power dynamic of the abuse, making the severity of the crime even stronger. Overall, since this case met the parameters of a hate crime, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when a victim's ordeal begins rather than when the incident is reported by the media. In the present case, media reports do not specify the exact date on which the victim's ordeal commenced and only state that she met the perpetrator in 2015. The reports relating to this case were published on 8 June 2026. In the absence of a precise commencement date, an indicative incident date of 8 June 2015 has been selected as the beginning of the victim's ordeal. This estimated date has been recorded solely for documentation purposes and should not be construed as the confirmed date on which the incident began. In this case, even though the victim is originally from Meerut, her ordeal began when she went to Mumbai and first came in contact with the accused. Henceforth, the place of incidence has been recorded as Mumbai. In this case, the reports state that both the perpetrator and his family were involved in the victim's ordeal; however, the total number of family members involved has not been specified. Consequently, the perpetrator count has been recorded as '1', referring only to Mohammad Wasim. This is a conservative estimate adopted solely for documentation and archival purposes and may be revised if additional verified information becomes available.