Hindu woman trapped, blackmailed and coerced to convert by Muslim man posing as Hindu; stabbed for refusing advances
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 
15 July, 2022
Case Summary
In Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, a 26-year-old Hindu woman was deceived into a relationship, sexually abused by a Muslim man who introduced himself as a Hindu when they first met around four years earlier. After the victim discovered that he was a Muslim, the accused blackmailed her with intimate photographs and videos, pressured her to convert to Islam, offer namaz, roza, and also forced her to enter into Nikah. When the victim opposed and resisted, he threatened to kill her. The victim then got married to a Hindu man. However, the accused continued to stalk and harass her before attacking her with a knife when she resisted his advances. According to the victim, she attended a birthday party in December 2022 where she met a man who introduced himself as Shambhu. Believing that he was a Hindu, she developed a friendship with him. The accused concealed his Muslim identity and, on the pretext of marriage, repeatedly established physical relations with her. The victim later discovered that the accused's real name was Salim Alvi and that he was a Muslim resident of Hindon Vihar, Ghaziabad. She stated that he had deceived her from the beginning by hiding his religious identity and had continued to sexually exploit her under false pretences. The victim further stated that the accused recorded intimate photographs and videos of her without her consent and used them to blackmail her into continuing the relationship. She stated that he repeatedly threatened to circulate the material if she resisted his demands. She further expressed that he sexually assaulted her after consuming intoxicants and pressured her to establish physical relations with his friends. Whenever she objected, he assaulted and threatened her. The accused also pressured her to offer namaz, attempted to make her observe roza and to enter into Nikah with her. He repeatedly demanded that she convert to Islam. In June 2025, the victim's family arranged her marriage to a Hindu man. However, the accused continued to harass her even after her marriage. According to the complaint, he attempted to defame her, repeatedly followed her to her matrimonial home, and threatened to kill her if she refused to convert to Islam. The victim stated that even after she informed her parental family about the harassment, the accused continued to threaten her, insisting that she embrace Islam or face death. The victim further stated that on 13 July,2026, while she was on her way to the Kotwali police station, the accused followed her, attempted to molest her, and tried to grab her hand. When she resisted, he attacked her with a knife. As she attempted to escape, he inflicted further knife injuries on her head and forehead. She stated that the accused had been stalking her for several days before the attack and continued to pressure her into resuming a physical relationship and accompanying him to his house. In a video that surfaced on social media, the victim was seen stating that there was a lot of pressure built on her not to register the FIR by a few political persons, and even the police were reluctant to record her FIR. Then she approached the Hindu organisation and with their help she lodged an FIR. Taking cognisance of the complaint, the Kotwali police registered a case against Sameer Alvi under Sections 78, 352, 118(1), and 126(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. Police stated that further investigation into the matter was 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 subcategory selected is: Man pretends to be Hindu. Under this, the tertiary category selected is: Name changed. When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by mala fides. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc) or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. The other sub-category selected 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 to their religion, owing to her religious identity as 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 to his 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. The other sub-category is forced conversion before marriage. The tertiary categories are: Forced to follow non-Hindu religious practices and Forced to do Nikah. 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 to his 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 to his religion and give up her religious identity. In both 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 pressurising 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. The other sub-category selected 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 second primary category selected is: Attack not resulting in death. The sub-category selected is: Attacked for opposing radicals and trying to save the victim. In several cases, Hindus are attacked for opposing religiously motivated crimes being committed against a fellow Hindu or simply for voicing an opinion opposing radical elements, who either have in the past or continue to persecute Hindus. In such cases, the initial attack against the victim, against which the Hindu was trying to defend the victim, would also need to be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime. Since the initial crime itself was religiously motivated and the subsequent crime of attempting to save the victim or speaking against the radical elements ends up inviting a violent attack, it would also be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime under this category. This case was included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because a Hindu woman was deliberately deceived about the religious identity of the man who entered into a relationship with her and was subsequently subjected to sustained coercion to abandon her Hindu faith and accept Islam. The religious element remained central throughout the entire sequence of events, as the deception served as the foundation for repeated attempts to alter the victim's religious identity against her wishes. As per the sequence of events, the accused first concealed his Muslim identity by introducing himself as a Hindu before entering into a relationship with the victim. Once she discovered the deception, the relationship did not simply come to an end. Instead, the accused exploited intimate photographs and videos to blackmail her into converting to Islam. He further pressured her to offer namaz, observe roza, abandon her Hindu faith, and enter into a nikah with him, demonstrating that the objective extended far beyond maintaining the relationship. Rather, the sustained pressure was directed towards replacing the victim's Hindu identity with an Islamic one through religious conversion and marriage under Islamic law. The use of intimate photographs and videos further highlighted the religious nature of the targeting. The material was not used for financial gain or personal revenge but as a calculated tool to compel the victim to renounce her faith. The accused also sexually assaulted the victim while under the influence of intoxicants and repeatedly pressured her to establish physical relations with his friends, reducing her to an object of exploitation while simultaneously seeking to strip her of her religious identity. The continued demands that she convert to Islam, participate in Islamic religious practices, and submit to his control demonstrated that the sexual exploitation and religious coercion formed part of the same pattern of abuse. Such acts directly infringed upon her bodily autonomy, freedom of conscience, and right to profess and practise her Hindu faith without intimidation or coercion. Significantly, the accused did not cease his actions even after the victim married a Hindu man and started a new life. Instead, he continued to stalk, threaten, intimidate, and pressure her to convert to Islam. This demonstrated that the relationship itself was not the end objective but merely the means through which the accused sought to facilitate religious conversion. Had his intention merely been to continue the relationship, he would have accepted its end after her marriage. Instead, his continued pursuit, despite her clear refusal and changed circumstances, established that compelling her to abandon her Hindu faith remained the central objective throughout. The religious motive became even more apparent when the victim consistently exercised her own free will by refusing to abandon her Hindu faith despite sustained deception, blackmail, and coercion and opposing the accused. He was unwilling to accept her independent choice to remain a Hindu and repeatedly attempted to override her autonomy by compelling her to submit to his demands. When every effort to pressure her into accepting Islam and Islamic religious practices failed, he escalated to threats and ultimately resorted to a knife attack. The progression from deception to blackmail, intimidation, and finally violence demonstrated that the objective had always been to strip the victim of her freedom to choose and practise her own faith. Having failed to secure her compliance through manipulation, the accused turned to physical force in an attempt to achieve the same end, making the violence the culmination of a sustained course of religiously motivated coercion. 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. Many documented cases indicate that the victim's Hindu identity often becomes a significant factor in their targeting. 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, since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, 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. For these reasons, the incident constituted a religiously motivated hate crime against a Hindu woman and warranted its inclusion in the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim's ordeal begins or when the crime first occurs, rather than on the date the matter is reported in the media. In the present case, the victim stated that she first came into contact with the accused at a birthday party in December 2022, which marked the beginning of the deception and the subsequent chain of events that culminated in religious coercion, sexual exploitation, and violence. Since the exact date of the birthday party is not available in the public domain, 16 December 2022 has been recorded as the indicative incident, combining the month and year when the ordeal began with the date the media reported it, 16 July 2026, for documentation purposes. This date has been adopted solely to represent the commencement of the victim's ordeal.
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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