Dalit Hindu woman kidnapped, raped, assaulted, and threatened for religious conversion by Muslim man

Case ID : 30a8ec4 | Location : Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 11 April, 2026

Case ID : 30a8ec4

Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

11 April, 2026

Dalit Hindu woman kidnapped, raped, assaulted, and threatened for religious conversion by Muslim man

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Case Summary

In the Chilhiya village in Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit Hindu woman was kidnapped, raped, physically assaulted, and threatened for religious conversion by a Muslim man named Mohammad Nabi alias Nabi Mohammad alias Lalu. According to the police complaint filed by the victim in May 2026, the accused abducted her in April 2026 and subsequently raped her. During her captivity, he assaulted her and exerted pressure on her to convert her religion. He also threatened to defame her publicly if she resisted his demands. The victim eventually managed to escape from his custody and approached the authorities. Acting on the complaint, the police registered an FIR on 12 May 2026 under multiple legal provisions relating to kidnapping, rape, criminal intimidation, and religious conversion. A search operation was launched to locate the accused, who had absconded after the case was registered. On 11 June 2026, police received information that Mohammad Nabi was near Kakrahi Bridge in the Jogia Udaipur police station area and was attempting to flee. A police team reached the location, apprehended him, and brought him to Chilhiya police station for questioning. Following the completion of legal formalities, he was produced before a court and subsequently remanded to judicial custody.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected 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. This case has been added to the tracker because a Dalit Hindu woman was kidnapped, raped, physically assaulted, and threatened for religious conversion by a Muslim man named Mohammad Nabi. Firstly, the accused attempted to force the Hindu victim to renounce her religion and convert to Islam. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard his religious faith and embrace another is a direct attack on his religious identity and dignity. It is not a matter of personal choice; it is coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act is not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making it a religiously motivated crime. The circumstances of the case further demonstrate that violence and intimidation were employed as tools to facilitate religious conversion. The threat to publicly defame her if she resisted served as an additional mechanism of coercion. Often in such cases, sexual violence, abduction and threats serve 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 violence; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. 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. 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 abducted in April 2026. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 12 April 2026, as a placeholder for the beginning of her suffering, aligning with the date of registration of the FIR on 12 May 2026. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 11 June 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.