Hindu minor girl kidnapped by Muslim man; family threatened with her religious conversion and marriage in Uttar Pradesh
Karari, Uttar Pradesh, India 
10 July, 2026
Case Summary
In the Karari area of Kaushambi district, Uttar Pradesh, a 15-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped by a Muslim man identified as Salman, a resident of Guwara Tayyabpur village. According to the girl's family, she had gone to the fields on the night of 11 July 2025 but did not return home. After searching for her, the family learnt that Salman had lured and abducted her. The victim's father, along with his wife, went to the accused's house to confront the family, where the accused's mother and younger brother abused them using casteist slurs, issued death threats, and said that the girl would be converted to Islam and married to Salman. Based on the complaint filed by the victim's father, the police registered a case under the relevant provisions relating to kidnapping, the SC/ST Act, and other applicable sections. Police stated that efforts were underway to trace the minor girl and arrest the accused.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category for this case is " Predatory Proselytisation". The sub-category for this case 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 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. The second category relevant here is- Hate speech against Hindus and the subcategory within this is: Anti-Hindu slurs, mocking faith. Anti-Hindu slurs and the deliberate mocking of the Hindu faith owing to religious animosity involve the usage of derogatory terms, stereotypes, or offensive references to religious practices, symbols, or figures. One of the common anti-Hindu slurs used against Hindus is “cow-worshipper” and “cow piss drinker”. The intention of using this term is to demean and mock Hindus as a group and their religious beliefs since Hindus consider the cow holy. Additionally, some symbols and the slurs attached to them have a historical context that exacerbates the insult, hate, stereotyping, dehumanisation and oppression against Hindus. Cow worship has been used for centuries to denigrate Hindus, insult their faith and oppress Hindus specifically as a religious group. There has been overwhelming documentation about how cow slaughter has been used to persecute Hindus with cow meat being thrown in temples and places of worship. There has also been overwhelming documentation where cow meat (beef) has been force-fed to Hindus to either forcefully convert them to Islam or denigrate their faith. Apart from cow worship, the Swastika – which holds deep religious significance for the Hindus – has also been misinterpreted and distorted to use as a slur against Hindus. Similarly, the worship of the Shivling has been used by supremacist ideologies and religions to denigrate Hindus owing to religious animosity. Such slurs and denigration stem out of inherent animosity and hate towards Hindus and their faith, therefore, it is categorised as hate speech targeted at Hindus specifically owing to their religious identity. This incident has been documented in the Hinduphobia Tracker as it contains multiple religious markers. First, the accused explicitly threatened to convert the minor Hindu girl to Islam and solemnise nikah with her, demonstrating that altering her religious identity was central to his objective. Second, when the victim's family opposed the abduction, they were subjected to caste-based abuse, indicating that their identity as Hindus was the basis for hostility. Here, the sequence of events makes it evident that the victim's Hindu identity was the problem and the accused's sole objective was its erasure. After the minor's abduction, when the victim's family confronted him, he explicitly expressed his intention to convert her to Islam and solemnise Nikah with her. This threat is significant because it reveals that religious conversion was not an incidental outcome of the relationship but a declared objective from the outset. By explicitly stating that the minor would be converted to Islam, the accused conveyed that her identity as a Hindu was unacceptable and had to be replaced with an Islamic identity. The threat itself establishes that altering the victim's religious identity lay at the heart of the offence. Here, it is important to mention that the victim was a minor, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They may not have the ability to fully understand the implications of converting to another religion, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religious conversion, it is a blatant act of religious hate, which is why it has been documented here in the hate tracker. Another significant aspect of this incident is that the victim's parents were abused with casteist slurs and threatened with dire consequences. While several people may argue that a caste-specific slur was aimed at the victim's family's micro identity of belonging to the Dalit section of the Hindu community and not their Hindu identity itself. However, as far as Abrahamic religions are concerned, the micro identities of caste, region, and language are secondary. It is the religious identity that drives the animosity of the perpetrator against the Hindu victim. In this case, while the accused's family hurled caste abuses at the victim's family, the animosity was driven by his animosity towards Hinduism and Hindus. Therefore, the fact that caste slurs were hurled at the victim's family by the perpetrator's family makes it a religiously motivated hate crime against the victim. Notably, this incident is not an isolated case but part of a broader pattern where Hindu women and girls are deliberately targeted through force, 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.
Case Status
Complaint registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
both
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