Hindu woman raped and blackmailed for religious conversion by a Muslim man in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India 
5 July, 2026
Case Summary
In Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was deceived, sexually exploited, blackmailed, and pressured to convert to Islam by Haji Faheem Ali, the owner of New Fayyaz Care Hospital, who lured her with the false promise of employment at his tyre factory. According to the victim's complaint, the accused repeatedly raped her and secretly recorded explicit photographs and objectionable videos of the victim without her knowledge or consent. This illicit media was subsequently weaponised against her as a primary tool to coerce her into embracing Islam and threatening to kill her and her family if she resisted. The victim, a resident of the Aliganj police station area, stated that she had been living in a rented house in the Izzatnagar police station area for nearly 12 years. In April 2024, she joined New Fayyaz Care Hospital, owned by Haji Faheem Ali, and worked there for about a year before leaving the job. According to the complaint, a few months after she resigned, Haji Faheem Ali contacted her and informed her that he required an accountant for his tyre factory in Meerganj. He offered her the job and gradually gained her confidence under the pretext of providing employment. Thereafter, he allegedly began taking her to different locations on various pretexts. The victim stated that on 14 September 2025, the accused took her to Hotel Geet International in Delapeer using the identity documents of his wife, Shahista B. There, he raped her and secretly recorded obscene videos of the assault. According to the complaint, the accused subsequently used the compromising video recordings as leverage to isolate her. He used this severe coercion to mount intense, continuous pressure on her, demanding that she renounce her faith and undergo a forced religious conversion to Islam. He threatened to circulate the explicit footage on social media if she refused to comply with his demands. The targeted harassment and intimidation escalated until the victim managed to break the cycle of subjugation and approach the local law enforcement authorities to seek immediate legal intervention and personal protection. The victim stated in her complaint that, under the threat of exposing the videos, the accused repeatedly called her to different locations and sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions. Whenever she resisted, he threatened to kill both her and her family members. She further confirmed that the accused later began pressuring her to convert to Islam and started intercepting and harassing her in public. Based on the victim's complaint, Prem Nagar Police registered an FIR against Haji Faheem Ali under the relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act. The Bareilly police initiated a swift tactical operation. The perpetrator, Haji Fahim, was promptly tracked down, arrested, and detained. At the time of documenting this incident, the accused was held in judicial custody while investigators processed forensic data from the seized devices and finalised the evidence for court prosecution. During the course of the investigation, the victim also named Haji Faheem Ali's brothers and other family members, stating that they were part of the conspiracy. Police also stated that the roles of Haji Faheem Ali's brother and other family members would be examined during the investigation and that further legal action would be taken based on the evidence collected.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category - Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the first selected subcategory 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. The second subcategory is: Harassment, threat, 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 next primary category in this case is: Crime against women in relationship and other sexual crimes. Within this, the selected subcategory 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. This incident has been categorised as a hate crime due to multiple religious markers that establish the victim's Hindu identity as central to the offence. The first religious marker is that the accused deliberately exploited the victim's vulnerability by luring her with the false promise of employment before subjecting her to repeated sexual exploitation. While the initial inducement revolved around a job offer, the offence acquired a distinct religious character when the accused subsequently began pressuring the victim to convert to Islam. The conversion demand demonstrates that the objective extended beyond sexual exploitation. The accused sought not only to exercise physical and psychological control over the victim but also to alter her religious identity. This makes the victim's Hindu faith a central element of the offence rather than an incidental characteristic. The second religious marker is the sustained pressure exerted on the victim to embrace Islam. According to the complaint, after trapping the victim and obtaining compromising videos through sexual assault, the accused repeatedly blackmailed her and later began compelling her to convert. The conversion demand was accompanied by threats to release the videos publicly and threats to kill both the victim and her family if she resisted. Such conduct demonstrates that the pressure to convert was not an isolated request but formed part of a systematic campaign of coercion. By weaponising sexual violence, blackmail, and intimidation to compel a Hindu woman to abandon her faith, the accused deprived the victim of her ability to exercise free and informed religious choice. The sequence of events is also significant. The accused first established trust by promising her a job, followed by dominance over the victim through deception and sexual exploitation, and thereafter using the recorded videos to maintain continued control over her. Once the victim had been rendered vulnerable through repeated blackmail and intimidation, he introduced the demand that she convert to Islam. This progression indicates that the conversion pressure was not accidental or unrelated to the abuse but constituted the culmination of a continuing pattern of coercive conduct directed at a Hindu woman. The threats issued against the victim and her family further reinforce the religious nature of the offence. According to the complaint, whenever the victim resisted either the repeated sexual assaults or the pressure to convert, the accused threatened to kill her and her family members. These threats functioned as an arm-twisting mechanism designed to break the victim's resistance and compel compliance with his demands. The use of fear and intimidation to force a Hindu woman towards religious conversion represents a direct assault on her religious freedom and personal autonomy. It is also significant that the victim named not only the principal accused but also his brothers and other family members as participants in the conspiracy. The existence of such coordinated participation would further strengthen the inference that the conversion pressure was deliberate and organised rather than spontaneous. Importantly, this is not an isolated incident, but such a pattern stems from a supremacist interpretation of Abrahamic religious doctrine, where those who do not follow the same faith are viewed as inferior, impure, or needing to be corrected. In such a worldview, conversion is not an invitation—it is an obligation. The non-believer is not respected as different, but is dehumanised until they conform. As a result, Hindus are often targeted not for personal reasons but because of their religious identity. The violence, manipulation, and betrayal involved in these cases are not isolated acts of cruelty; they are manifestations of an underlying ideological hostility towards Hinduism, its traditions, and its followers. This is why such cases must be recognised and documented as religiously motivated hate crimes. The victims are not just exploited individuals; they are Hindus targeted for being Hindu.
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
Case sub-judice
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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