Hindu woman repeatedly targeted with sexual violence, blackmailed with obscene videos and pressured to convert to Islam in Kishangarh
Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India 
15 June, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu woman from Kishangarh, Rajasthan, endured prolonged sexual exploitation, blackmail, coercion, and pressure to abandon her faith. What began as a relationship of trust with a neighbour developed into a sustained pattern of abuse that continued for over a year. During this period, she was subjected to repeated sexual violence, threats, intimidation, and efforts to compel her to convert to Islam and enter into marriage against her wishes. The sequence began approximately 1.5 years before the case was registered. A Muslim neighbour gained the Hindu woman's trust and persuaded her to accompany him to a house in Bajrang Colony, Kishangarh. There, he raped her and recorded the assault on video. Following the incident, he used the recording to blackmail her, threatening to circulate the footage publicly and harm her husband if she disclosed what had happened. The video became a tool through which the perpetrator maintained control over the victim and ensured her silence while continuing to exploit her. Over the following months, the Hindu woman remained under constant pressure. The perpetrator repeatedly used the recorded material to intimidate her and continued sexually exploiting her. The threats extended beyond exposure of the videos and included warnings of violence against members of her family. The continuing blackmail left her trapped in a situation where she feared both public humiliation and physical harm. As the abuse continued, the perpetrator introduced the Hindu woman to another Muslim man. Initially, this individual presented himself as "Ramesh". She later discovered that his real name was Shahrukh. After entering the situation, Shahrukh participated in the exploitation of the victim. The two men gang raped her multiple times and created additional obscene videos. The recordings were then used to reinforce the existing pattern of coercion and intimidation. During this period, the Hindu woman was subjected to repeated pressure to convert to Islam, marry Shahrukh and do Nikah. The efforts to secure her conversion were not limited to verbal persuasion. She was taken to Ajmer and introduced to a cleric as part of an attempt to facilitate religious conversion and marriage. The conversion and marriage process did not proceed, yet the pressure on the victim continued. Despite her resistance, the perpetrators persisted in seeking to compel her to abandon her Hindu faith and enter into a relationship on their terms. After Holi in 2025, the situation escalated further. The perpetrators arrived at the Hindu woman's rented accommodation and pressured her to accompany them. When she refused, she was assaulted and threatened with a knife. She was then forced into a vehicle and taken to Ajmer against her wishes. After being taken to Ajmer, the Hindu woman came into contact with a third Muslim man identified as Imran. According to the complaint, he subsequently became involved in the ongoing exploitation. Imran contacted the victim and summoned her to various locations and hotels, where she was subjected to further sexual abuse. The pattern of coercion, intimidation, and exploitation that had begun with the first perpetrator continued through the involvement of additional individuals. On 13th June 2025, the Hindu woman was again threatened and compelled to go to a location designated by the perpetrators. There, she was assaulted and subjected to further abuse. By this stage, she had endured a prolonged period of physical violence, sexual exploitation, blackmail, threats, and pressure relating to religious conversion. The continued circulation and use of obscene recordings remained a central means through which the perpetrators maintained control over her and prevented her from seeking assistance. The victim eventually approached the police and narrated the sequence of events. Based on her complaint, Gandhinagar Police Station in Kishangarh registered a case against the three named accused and commenced an investigation. The case was registered under provisions relating to rape, gang rape, criminal intimidation, assault, and other serious offences. The victim underwent medical examination, and police teams began efforts to locate the accused and gather evidence relevant to the investigation. The case concluded with the registration of an FIR at Gandhinagar Police Station, Kishangarh, and the initiation of a police investigation against the three named accused. Authorities began collecting documentary, medical, and digital evidence while undertaking further investigative steps into the allegations of rape, gang rape, blackmail, kidnapping, assault, criminal intimidation, and pressure to convert.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category - Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within this, the subcategory selected is - Man pretends to be Hindu. Under this, the tertiary category is - Name changed. When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by malafide intentions. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc), or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. The other subcategory selected is - Forced conversion before marriage, with the tertiary category being - 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. Another subcategory selected 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. Another primary category selected for this case is - Predatory Proselytisation, with the sub-category being - 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 Hindu woman was subjected to prolonged sexual exploitation, coercion, and religious targeting that culminated in sustained efforts to sever her connection with her Hindu faith and compel her acceptance of an Islamic identity. The perpetrators first established trust and control over the victim before exploiting that position to sexually abuse her, record obscene material, and maintain dominance through intimidation. The abuse was not limited to physical exploitation. Rather, it evolved into a broader pattern of religious coercion in which the victim's Hindu identity became the target of repeated attempts at subjugation. The use of a personal relationship as neighbour, her trust, and emotional manipulation to gain access to a Hindu woman before subjecting her to sexual violence and control demonstrates how intimate relationships can be weaponised to facilitate the targeting of vulnerable Hindu women. The recorded videos further transformed the abuse into a continuing mechanism of domination, ensuring that the victim remained trapped within a system designed to strip her of autonomy and make resistance increasingly difficult. The religiously motivated nature of the conduct became even clearer through the deliberate concealment of religious identity by one of the perpetrators. A man who was actually Shahrukh introduced himself as "Ramesh", adopting a Hindu name while engaging with the victim. The use of a false Hindu identity was not incidental but served to conceal his true background and create a false sense of familiarity and trust. By presenting himself under a Hindu name and only later revealing his actual identity, he gained access to the victim under false pretences before participating in her sexual exploitation and the creation of further compromising material. Such deception directly targeted the trust associated with a shared religious and cultural identity. The concealment of religious identity became a tool through which the victim was drawn deeper into a situation of exploitation that she may otherwise have resisted, making the deception itself an important component of the broader pattern of religious targeting. The attempts to force the victim's conversion to Islam before marriage represented a direct attack on her religious identity and freedom of conscience. Conversion is only meaningful when undertaken voluntarily and free from coercion. In this case, the pressure to abandon Hinduism emerged only after the perpetrators had established control through sexual violence, intimidation, and blackmail. The objective was not merely to secure a personal relationship but to compel the victim to renounce her existing faith and accept a new religious identity. This transformed the abuse from a purely personal crime into one directed at the victim because she was Hindu. The pressure to convert treated her Hindu identity as an obstacle that had to be removed before marriage could take place. Such conduct sought to erase her religious affiliation and replace it with another through coercive means, demonstrating clear hostility towards her right to remain Hindu and practise her faith freely. The coercive Nikah formed part of the same process of religious erasure and replacement. Rather than existing as a voluntary marital union entered into by two consenting individuals, the marriage was linked to ongoing efforts to force the victim to abandon her Hindu identity and accept an imposed Islamic one. The significance of this lies in the fact that the Nikah was not presented as a union between individuals of different faiths who freely chose one another, but as the culmination of a process in which the victim's religious identity was expected to be discarded. By seeking to make the conversion and marriage inseparable, the perpetrators attempted to institutionalise the replacement of her Hindu identity and make that transformation permanent. The religious dimension therefore extended beyond marriage itself and reflected an effort to ensure that the victim's future identity, beliefs, and social status were detached from her Hindu faith. Blackmail played a central role in facilitating this religious coercion. The obscene videos created during the course of the abuse were repeatedly used as instruments of control to ensure compliance with the perpetrators' demands. The victim was placed in a position where refusing conversion, resisting sexual exploitation, or seeking help carried the threat of public humiliation and further harm. Such intimidation deprived her of any meaningful ability to exercise free choice in matters of faith. The use of compromising material to compel a Hindu woman to submit to religious demands demonstrates that the conversion was not pursued through persuasion or personal conviction but through fear and coercion. The blackmail therefore functioned not only as a means of maintaining sexual control but also as a mechanism for undermining her religious autonomy and forcing compliance with efforts to alter her faith and identity. The sustained harassment, threats, and coercion further reinforced the religiously motivated nature of the targeting. When the victim resisted, she was threatened, assaulted, and forcibly taken to Ajmer, where the pressure to convert continued. The use of physical violence, threats with a knife, forced movement to another location, and the involvement of an additional perpetrator demonstrated an escalating effort to break her resistance. Rather than ending when she refused to comply, the intimidation intensified and expanded through the participation of multiple individuals. The continued recording of videos, repeated assaults, and persistent pressure to abandon her faith reflected a coordinated effort to maintain control over the victim and ensure her submission. The objective was not simply to continue the abuse but to create circumstances in which resistance to conversion became increasingly difficult and dangerous. By combining sexual violence, intimidation, blackmail, and religious pressure, the perpetrators sought to strip the victim of her autonomy, undermine her attachment to her Hindu faith, and compel acceptance of an identity imposed through coercion. For these reasons, the incident demonstrates clear anti-Hindu targeting and constitutes a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The exact date when the Hindu woman first came into contact with the perpetrators was not specified in the available sources. However, the victim stated that the ordeal began approximately one and a half years before the complaint was filed, and the available reports indicate that the incidents commenced around early 2025. The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when a victim's ordeal begins rather than when it is reported by the media. In this case, 16th June 2025 has been used as the indicative incident date, derived from the available year and the article publication date of 16th June 2026. This date has been recorded in the Hinduphobia Tracker 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 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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