Hindu woman assaulted by Muslim husband, pressured to recite Kalma and observe roza; minor son forced to chant "Pakistan Zindabad" slogan
Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 
11 July, 2021
Case Summary
In Raipur, Chhattisgarh, a Hindu woman was compelled to convert to Islam, read Kalma and observe Roza by her Muslim husband, identified as Mohammed Saddam. The accused physically assaulted her, threatened her with death, and repeatedly subjected her to religious coercion throughout their marriage. He pressurised her minor son to chant "Pakistan Zindabad" and make anti-India statements. According to the complaint lodged by the victim at the Amanaka police station, Wasim had told her that he was divorced before the two married under Muslim rites in 2021. She later discovered that he had concealed the fact that he already had children from his first wife. She said that after the birth of their child, he began physically assaulting her and forcing her to recite the Kalma, offer Namaz, and observe Roza. Despite complying with his demands, she said, he continued to assault her and repeatedly threw her out of the house. The victim further stated that Wasim regularly assaulted both her and her children and forced them to chant "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans and abuse India. Whenever they resisted, he beat them severely. She also said that after marrying into the Muslim community, her own family severed ties with her, while no one from the Hindu community was willing to accept her, leaving her socially isolated. Unable to endure the abuse any longer, the woman lodged a complaint with the police on May 29, 2026. Following her complaint, Amanaka police registered a case against Mohammed Saddam under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and arrested him. Interestingly, following his arrest when he was being taken to the police station, Wasim Mohammad began raising slogans of "Hindustan Zindabad" and "Pakistan Murdabad", in stark contrast to his earlier conduct where he forced the victim's minor child to chant "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans and make anti-India statements. A video of the incident was circulated widely on social media. Meanwhile, the police initiated further investigation into the matter to examine the charges of physical abuse, criminal intimidation, and religious coercion made by the victim. The Superintendent of Police stated that action would be taken in accordance with the law.
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 - Forced conversion after marriage. The tertiary categories here is- Forced to read Kalma. In such cases, a non-Hindu man marries a Hindu woman, and the force/pressure to convert to any Abrahamic faith, like Islam, begins after marriage. 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. The marriage could be under the Special Marriages Act, where neither parties are required to convert their religion for the marriage to be considered legitimate. While the victim in such cases enters matrimony assuming that religious identity is not a barrier, the non-Hindu man starts to pressure the woman to convert her religion after marriage. 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 situations, there is application of force by the perpetrator, including the denial of the woman’s religious rights. Some of the means by which the woman is forced/pressured to convert include force-feeding beef, being forced to read the Kalma, being forced to wear a hijab, forced to undergo Halala, etc. There are several instances where, after marriage, the woman voluntarily converts to Islam. Such cases are often argued to be a result of religious brainwashing, however, for the purpose of documenting religiously motivated hate crimes, in the absence of the victim complaining of forced conversion, such cases do not form a part of the database. Another sub-category for this case is "Assault or threat upon refusal to convert". When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurising the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. The other primary category selected here is - Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected here is - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary category here is- 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 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. This case was included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because of the multiple religious markers present. Firstly, the Hindu woman was subjected to sustained religious coercion after marriage, where she was pressured to abandon her Hindu faith and adopt Islamic religious practices against her will. The sequence of events demonstrated that the marriage was not entered into on the understanding that she would have to renounce her religion. Had conversion been a mutually agreed condition of the marriage, there would have been no need to compel her to recite the Kalma, observe Roza, or repeatedly pressure her to embrace Islam after the wedding. Instead, the pressure to change her faith emerged only after marriage, showing that she had entered the relationship believing she would remain free to profess and practise Hinduism. The subsequent attempts to strip her of that freedom constituted a direct attack on her religious identity. The repeated insistence on reciting the Kalma and observing Islamic religious practices was not an ordinary domestic disagreement but a deliberate effort to replace the victim's existing religious identity with another. The Kalma is the foundational declaration of the Islamic faith, and compelling a Hindu to recite it serves an unmistakable religious purpose. Further, the use of physical assault and repeated death threats to enforce compliance further demonstrated that violence and intimidation were employed to break the victim's resistance and compel her to abandon her faith. Such acts transformed religious pressure into coercion, making her Hindu identity the very reason she was subjected to abuse. The targeting did not remain confined to the woman. The systematic exposure of the minor child to pro-Pakistan slogans reflected an attempt to shape his beliefs from an early age. Children of such a young age lack the maturity to critically assess ideological narratives and naturally internalise what they are repeatedly taught by trusted adults. Instead of allowing the child to grow with a balanced understanding of both his Hindu and Muslim heritage, he was exposed to one-sided ideological conditioning that sought to distance him from his Hindu roots while normalising an exclusivist religious worldview. Moreover, this conduct reflected an effort to cultivate allegiance to the concept of the Ummah-the belief that Muslims across the world form one religious community whose collective identity transcends national borders. In its extremist interpretation, this ideology promotes loyalty to the global Islamic community above the nation-state. Since India is viewed by such elements as a Hindu civilisational entity, fostering attachment to transnational Islamic identity often goes hand in hand with weakening identification with India's cultural and civilisational foundations. Indoctrinating a young child with pro-Pakistan slogans and discouraging a balanced upbringing therefore served to advance this ideological objective by replacing both his national and Hindu identity with a religiously exclusive one. 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. Taken together, the conduct demonstrated a deliberate pattern of religious coercion, intimidation and ideological conditioning directed at erasing the Hindu identity of both the wife and the child. While the woman was subjected to violence and threats for resisting pressure to abandon her faith, the child was targeted through early ideological grooming designed to mould his religious and national outlook. The actions therefore reflected a clear religious motive directed against Hindu identity, making this a documented instance of a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The exact date when the Hindu woman and the Muslim perpetrator first came into contact was not specified in the available sources. However, the earliest year of contact was indicated as around 2021, when the two married. The tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, not when it was reported or published. In this case, 12th July 2021 has been used as the indicative incident date, derived by aligning the known year with the article publication date of 12th July 2026. This date has been recorded for documentation purposes only.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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