Minor Hindu girl raped, blackmailed, pressured to convert to Islam and undergo nikah by Muslim man in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh
Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, India 
14 June, 2025
Case Summary
In Sahaswan, Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, a minor Hindu girl studying in Class 6 was subjected to repeated rape, blackmail, and sustained coercion to convert to Islam and undergo a nikah (Islamic marriage) by a Muslim man named Faizi. The accused lived in the same neighbourhood as the victim. He stalked the victim over an extended period before committing the initial sexual assault (rape) and subsequently used a recorded video of that assault to maintain control over her for nearly a year. The incident came to light when a Hindu minor girl lodged a complaint at Sahaswan Kotwali against a Muslim man named Faizi from her neighbourhood. While some reports stated that the victim was sixteen years old and studying in Class 11 at a local inter college, others stated she was a Class 6 student at a local inter school. According to the complaint, Faizi stalked the girl during her daily commute to and from college. Despite her objections and resistance, he continued. On one occasion, he followed her home, found her alone, threatened and intimidated her, and raped her. He recorded the assault on his phone. From that point, the video became the instrument of control. The victim stated that Faizi returned repeatedly, raped her on multiple occasions over nearly a year, and each time reinforced his hold by threatening to make the video viral. He told her her honour would be destroyed, and she would not be able to show her face to anyone if she resisted. He further demanded that she convert to Islam and marry him in a nikah ceremony (Islamic marriage ceremony). He threatened her with death, stating he had connections with radical Islamic terrorists. When she refused, he physically assaulted her. The victim remained silent for close to a year under the weight of these threats. When she finally disclosed the full sequence of events to her family, they approached Sahaswan Kotwali and filed a complaint. The family stated that the girl became withdrawn in recent days. A mobile phone was found containing threatening messages from Faizi, including demands for conversion and nikah. When the girl said that she would complain to her family, Faizi assaulted her and threatened to kill her. In this case, the police registered the First Information Report (FIR) and launched a search for Faizi, who absconded. It was discovered that he had previously been convicted in a bike theft case. As soon as Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad workers came to know of the incident, they gathered at the police station, demanding immediate arrest and demolition action against the accused’s residence. Inspector Dhananjay Singh confirmed that the matter was under investigation based on the victim’s statement and written complaint.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category: Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the subcategory 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. The other sub-category selected is - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. Under this, the tertiary category selected is- Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Victim says was brainwashed/groomed and Conversion of a minor. 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 the 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 proselytisation, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. Another primary category selected in this case is: Attack not resulting in death. The subcategory selected is: Attacked for refusal to convert. When there is pressure, threat or coercion employed upon the Hindu victim to convert to a different religion, in several cases, the victim refuses to succumb to the pressure/threats. Once the victim refuses, the perpetrator proceeds to attack/assault the victim owing to his/her refusal to convert. In such cases, the pressure/threat/intimidation/coercion/violence itself is driven by animosity towards the victim’s Hindu faith. The violence then is another hate crime driven by the victim’s refusal to abandon his professed faith, Hinduism, and convert to the religion of a non-Hindu perpetrator. Since the victim’s faith is at the heart of the pressure to convert and the ensuing violence towards the victim, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. This case was included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because the Hindu girl was subjected not only to sexual violence and intimidation but also to sustained pressure to abandon her Hindu faith and accept Islam by the Muslim man. The religious trigger was evident from the repeated demands for religious conversion and for marriage through Nikah, which necessarily required the victim to give up her existing religious identity. The victim was therefore targeted not only as a minor girl but also because she was Hindu. Moreover, the perpetrator used fear, threats, blackmail, and psychological control to force compliance with his religious demands. The objective was not merely to exploit the victim but to compel her to renounce her faith and accept a new religious identity against her will. In doing so, the perpetrator treated her Hindu identity as an obstacle that had to be erased before his ultimate objective could be achieved. It is first important to note that the victim is a minor, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience is missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are vulnerable to manipulation and coercion, as they do not possess the capacity to fully understand the long-term ramifications of converting to another religion. The perpetrator exploited this age vulnerability, using it to strike at her Hindu identity and attempt to force her conversion to Islam through sustained sexual violence and blackmail. This exploitation of a child's vulnerability to erase her religious identity underscores a religiously driven hate crime rooted in anti-Hindu animosity. The act of raping the victim in this case extends beyond sexual gratification; it was employed as a tool to dominate her due to her religious identity and to pressurise her into converting to Islam. This sexual violence was deeply rooted in hatred for the victim's Hindu identity, transforming assault into religiously motivated sexual violence. The fact that the perpetrator repeatedly subjected the victim to multiple rapes over an extended period showcases the depth of hostility and hatred being expressed towards her faith through sexual violation, establishing it as a hate crime. Furthermore, the perpetrator captured videos and photographs of the victim in an obscene manner during the assaults with the explicit intent to blackmail her and arm-twist her into converting to Islam while continuing to fulfil his sexual desires. This calculated recording served as a permanent instrument of control, ensuring the victim remained trapped under the threat of public ruin. Such actions demonstrate a profound level of dehumanisation, where a victim's bodily integrity is weaponised for the purpose of forced conversion, further confirming the hate-driven nature of the offence. The forced conversion aspect of this case amounts to a hate crime because pressuring a person to give up their faith constitutes a direct attack on their religious identity. By attempting to compel the victim to abandon her heritage, the perpetrator demonstrated a complete disrespect for her religious beliefs, treating her faith as something inferior that needed to be erased through coercion and hostility. This systematic effort to eradicate an individual's religious identity through trauma is a defining characteristic of a religiously driven hate crime. In this context, the demand for a nikah (Islamic marriage ceremony) serves as a method to institutionalise the forced conversion. Under traditional Islamic jurisprudence, a nikah between a Muslim man and a non-Muslim woman from a non-Abrahamic faith cannot occur without her prior conversion to Islam. The perpetrator was therefore pressuring the Hindu girl to convert before the ceremony because the nikah would solidify her conversion, legalise the union within his religious framework, and ensure complete, permanent domination over her, making the marital demand itself a vehicle for a hate crime. When the victim refused to convert to Islam, she was assaulted and threatened with death by the perpetrator, who claimed to have connections with radical Islamic terrorists. This specific form of coercion and intimidation, using the threat of extremist violence to enforce religious capitulation, demonstrates that the hostility was not merely personal but tied to a broader framework of religious radicalism. Resorting to terror tactics to compel a change of faith clearly elevates the offence to a hate crime. The victim was also subjected to physical assault for the sole reason that she refused to convert. Subjecting an individual to bodily harm merely for exercising her right to retain her faith is a direct violation of religious freedom driven by intolerance. The use of physical violence as a penalty for religious non-compliance underscores that the perpetrator's primary objective was the erasure of her identity, fitting the established criteria for a hate crime. Given that this case meets several distinct parameters of a hate crime, including targeting based on religion, weaponised sexual violence, and forced conversion tactics, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker to document and analyse patterns of targeted hostility against the Hindu community. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim’s ordeal began rather than when it is reported in the media. It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case specified the exact date, apart from stating that the ordeal began approximately one year earlier. The media report was published on 15 June 2026. Based on these two pieces of information, an indicative incident date of 15 June 2025 has been selected. This is recorded 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
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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