Hindu woman lured and forcibly converted to Islam at gun-point by Muslim couple and cleric in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh
Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 
5 February, 2026
Case Summary
In the Majhola police station area of Moradabad, a Hindu woman was forcibly converted to Islam at gunpoint by a Muslim couple and an Islamic cleric. The victim filed a complaint with the SSP's office, following which the police launched an investigation. In her petition, the woman stated that the accused couple, who lived in the Majhola area, had been visiting her home. The two families had known each other for about three years. The victim stated that on 6 February 2026, the accused woman lured her to her home on some pretext. Her husband and a cleric were already present there. The woman's husband held a pistol at her, sat her down forcefully, and compelled her to undergo conversion to Islam at the hands of the maulvi. Following the conversion, the accused attempted to solemnise a nikah with the victim. However, the maulvi reportedly stated that the marriage would be invalid without the woman's consent. The victim further said that the accused kept her confined in their house for several days and sexually harassed her. Considering the seriousness of the matter, SSP Satpal Antil directed the Majhola Police Station in‑charge to investigate and take appropriate legal action. Majhola Police Station in‑charge Ravindra Kumar stated that an investigation had been initiated based on the victim's complaint. At the time of documenting this incident, the team at Hinduphobia Tracker contacted the SHO at Majhola Police Station and confirmed the accused's identity. The SHO further stated that a complaint had been received regarding the matter, but an FIR had not been lodged.
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 in discriminatory grounds, which have 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 documented cases, 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 incident was included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because a Hindu woman was forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint. The use of a firearm to compel her to renounce her Hindu faith demonstrated that the objective was not persuasion or voluntary religious choice, but the violent erasure of her religious identity. When a Hindu is threatened into abandoning her professed faith, the act becomes an attack on her constitutionally protected right to freely profess and practise her religion and constitutes a religiously motivated hate crime. The coercion employed against the victim reflected a deliberate attempt to break her will and strip her of any meaningful freedom to make an independent religious decision. Conversion obtained through fear, intimidation, and unlawful restraint has no element of consent and instead serves as a tool to impose another religion upon the victim. Such conduct was rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity, which was specifically targeted for abandonment. Furthermore, the attempt to marry the victim immediately after the forced conversion demonstrated that the coercion extended beyond the act of religious conversion itself. It indicated an effort to permanently bind the victim to the perpetrators after stripping her of her religious identity. Such a course of action also served to isolate her, discourage disclosure of the coercion, and exploit the social stigma often associated with such circumstances, thereby reducing the likelihood of resistance or complaint. The involvement of multiple individuals, each performing a specific role, further showed that the acts were coordinated rather than spontaneous. Such cases also reveal a recurring pattern whereby perpetrators first cultivate the victim's trust before exploiting that relationship to advance the objective of religious conversion. Once that trust is established, it is used to facilitate persuasion, deception, inducement or, where these fail, intimidation and coercion to secure conversion to Islam. The methods employed may vary, but the central objective remains the same: the victim's conversion. Every subsequent act, including isolation, intimidation, confinement or attempts to bind the victim through marriage, serves as a means to achieve or consolidate that primary objective. Here, the victim was specifically targeted because of her religious identity. The sequence of actions of the accused stemmed 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. This mindset does not merely tolerate the existence of another faith but seeks its erasure or assimilation. As a result, Hindus are often targeted not because of who they are as individuals, but because of their religious identity. The violence, deception, or humiliation inflicted in such cases is therefore not random, but part of a broader ideological hostility toward Hinduism and its symbols, practices, and adherents. Here, too, the predatory actions stemmed from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith, which is why this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime.
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
both
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