Hindu female teacher forced to convert to Islam after false promise of marriage and job in Dubai by Muslim colleague
Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India 
5 June, 2026
Case Summary
A 43-year-old Hindu female teacher was deceived by her Muslim colleague in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, after he exploited their professional acquaintance to draw her into a relationship. What began as promises of marriage and a job opportunity abroad escalated into religious coercion, sexual exploitation and financial fraud. The Hindu woman was isolated from her family, pressured to abandon her faith and subjected to repeated abuse before the perpetrator fled after taking her money and jewellery. The Hindu woman had been working as a teacher at a private school in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, where she came into contact with Hussain Abu Soydan, a 45-year-old Muslim teacher employed at the same institution. As they worked together, he grew close to her and gradually earned her trust. Taking advantage of this relationship, he promised to arrange a job for her in Dubai and presented himself as someone who could secure her future abroad. Over time, Hussain Abu Soydan encouraged the Hindu woman to distance herself from her husband and family. He persuaded her to marry and live together, reinforcing his promises of both marriage and employment in Dubai. Relying on these assurances, the Hindu woman continued to trust him and remained in close contact with him. On 19th April 2025, Hussain Abu Soydan took the Hindu woman to a hotel in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, where he repeatedly subjected her to sexual assault. During this period, he told her that embracing Islam was necessary if she wished to obtain the promised job in Dubai. He compelled her to undergo religious conversion, forced her to recite the Kalma and made her perform Islamic religious rituals. He also placed a fake mangalsutra around her neck to reinforce his assurances of marriage before continuing to exploit her. While maintaining these promises, Hussain Abu Soydan repeatedly demanded money from the Hindu woman under various pretexts connected with securing employment abroad. He told her that funds were required for a job in Dubai, passport processing, and other related expenses. Trusting his representations, the Hindu woman handed over cash, approximately six tolas of gold jewellery and additional money through online transactions. In total, she was deprived of approximately Rupees 3.8 lakh along with her jewellery. After obtaining the money and gold, Hussain Abu Soydan severed all communication with the Hindu woman. His mobile phone remained switched off from 1st June 2025 onwards, leaving her unable to contact him. It also emerged that he had left for Dubai after taking her money and valuables, leaving the Hindu woman without any means of recovering either her belongings or the promises he had made. Following these events, the Hindu woman approached the police and filed a complaint detailing the deception, religious conversion, repeated sexual assault and financial exploitation she had endured. A case was registered at Pundaliknagar Police Station in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar against Hussain Abu Soydan. The investigation was taken up under the supervision of Assistant Police Inspector Shivprasad Karhale, and further investigation into the matter remained underway.
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 sub-category selected is - Brainwashed and/or groomed. Under this, the tertiary categories selected are - Rape and sexual assault/harassment, and Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed. In our database, we have not added incidents where women have converted to another religion of their free will and no allegations of forced/involuntary conversion have been made. However, there are certain cases of conversion where the consent itself is a result of the brainwashing or grooming of a minor by the non-Hindu perpetrator trying to victimise a woman for her Hindu religious identity. The phenomenon of grooming points to non-Hindu perpetrators identifying their Hindu victims’ vulnerabilities and exploiting them over months and sometimes years, to extract the supposed ‘consent’ in order to convert their religion. In most cases of grooming, the victims are minors or the grooming started when the victim was a minor. In other cases of grooming, the non-Hindu perpetrator brainwashes and grooms a minor victim to extract their trust and then proceeds to rape them repeatedly with the intent of converting them to their faith. It is pertinent to understand here that when the victim is a minor, the ‘consent’ to convert or enter into a romantic relationship with an adult itself is redundant – addressed by POCSO. While every case of conversion of a minor and incidents of establishing a physical relationship with a minor by an adult is a crime, for the purpose of this database, a case would be considered a hate crime only if there is a distinct religious angle to the grooming. For example, in the UK, if a Hindu minor is targeted by Pakistani grooming gangs, it would be considered a hate crime because the victims are specifically targeted owing to their non-Muslim religious identity with the perpetrators being Muslim. In other cases, if a Hindu minor is brainwashed into entering a physical relationship with the non-Hindu adult perpetrator and the family alleges grooming/brainwashing of the minor to convert her religion, it would form a part of this database. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered a hate crime. The other sub-category selected here is - Forced conversion before marriage. Under this, the tertiary category selected is - Forced to follow non-Hindu religious practices. 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 primary category selected for this case is - Predatory proselytisation. Within this, the sub-category selected is - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing or subtle indoctrination. Under this, the tertiary categories selected are - Rape and sexual assault/harassment, and Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed. 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 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 proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. The other sub-category selected is - Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. This case qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime because the Muslim perpetrator employed prolonged grooming and psychological manipulation to detach a Hindu woman from the people and beliefs that anchored her Hindu identity before subjecting her to religious conversion and exploitation. Rather than attempting to build an equal relationship, he systematically encouraged her to distance herself from her husband and family, thereby removing the emotional support systems that could have protected her from coercion. Isolating the victim from her family made her increasingly dependent on him for emotional security, future prospects, and personal validation. Such calculated isolation is a recognised method of coercive control, allowing the perpetrator to reshape the victim's decisions without interference. In this case, the process culminated in pressure to abandon her Hindu faith, demonstrating that the grooming was not merely personal manipulation but part of a deliberate effort to weaken her attachment to her religious identity and make her more susceptible to conversion. The sustained sexual exploitation further reflected the religiously motivated nature of the abuse. The perpetrator repeatedly engaged in sexual relations with the Hindu woman while assuring her that he would marry her, thereby exploiting the trust he had carefully cultivated. These assurances enabled him to maintain control over the relationship while pursuing his own objectives of religious conversion, financial gain, and continued dominance over the victim. The exploitation was therefore not confined to physical abuse but formed part of a broader pattern of manipulation directed at a Hindu woman whose faith and future were gradually subordinated to the perpetrator's demands. The repeated use of false promises of marriage to facilitate sexual exploitation demonstrated that the relationship served as a vehicle through which he could progressively dismantle her autonomy and prepare her for abandoning her Hindu identity. The victim's own account to the police further reinforced the existence of deliberate grooming and psychological manipulation. She described how she had been deceived, emotionally controlled, sexually exploited, financially cheated, and compelled to alter the course of her life through the perpetrator's sustained influence. Her statement illustrated that the coercion was neither momentary nor incidental but the product of continuous manipulation that left her emotionally dependent and vulnerable. The victim's own description of the events therefore demonstrated that the relationship was characterised by systematic grooming rather than genuine consent or mutual commitment. The religious motivation became even more explicit through the insistence that the Hindu woman abandon her faith before any future together could be contemplated. Instead of accepting her religious identity, the perpetrator made conversion to Islam a condition for stability and permanence in the relationship. He compelled her to recite the Kalma and participate in Islamic religious practices, replacing her existing religious identity with one aligned to Islam. These were not symbolic acts but central expressions of religious affiliation that required the rejection of her Hindu faith. By making acceptance of Islamic beliefs and practices a prerequisite for continuing the relationship, the perpetrator conveyed that her Hindu identity was unacceptable and had to be erased before she could be accepted by him. The coercion therefore reflected clear hostility towards her existing faith and an intention to replace it with another religious identity through sustained pressure and manipulation. The conversion was further reinforced through inducement rather than genuine religious conviction. The perpetrator repeatedly assured the Hindu woman that embracing Islam was necessary to secure a promising job in Dubai and a better future. By linking religious conversion with employment opportunities and financial advancement, he used material incentives to influence her decision-making rather than allowing any voluntary exercise of faith. The promise of overseas employment became a tool to persuade her that abandoning her religion would lead to security and prosperity. Trusting these assurances, she handed over substantial amounts of money and gold jewellery, only to be abandoned after the perpetrator obtained what he wanted. The inducement therefore served a dual purpose: facilitating both financial exploitation and religious conversion. The use of promises of employment to pressure a Hindu woman into renouncing her faith demonstrated that the conversion was achieved through calculated manipulation and exploitation rather than free religious choice, establishing a clear pattern of religiously motivated targeting directed at her because she was a Hindu woman. This incident is not an isolated case but part of a broader pattern where Hindu women are deliberately targeted through deception and emotional blackmail for religious conversion and sexual exploitation. This stems 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 predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents. Given these elements, the case has been classified as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The exact date on which the initial contact between the Hindu woman and the Muslim perpetrator first began was not specified in the available sources. Therefore, 6th June 2026, the publication date of the earliest available report, has been used as the indicative incident date in the tracker. This date was recorded solely for archival and 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
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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