Dalit Hindu family abused with casteist slurs and threatened with conversion for opposing daughter's conversion and nikah

Case ID : 30a982f | Location : Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Mon, 6 July, 2026

Case ID : 30a982f

Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, India

6 July, 2026

Dalit Hindu family abused with casteist slurs and threatened with conversion for opposing daughter's conversion and nikah

Attack not resulting in death

Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save victim

Hate speech against Hindus

Anti-Hindu slurs, mocking faith

Violent threats

Case Summary

In Amroha district of Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit Hindu family was abused with casteist slurs and threatened with forcible conversion to Islam after they opposed the forceful conversion and nikah of their daughter with a Muslim man. According to the Dalit Hindu family, their daughter was lured away, forcibly converted to Islam and married to a Muslim man, who was the owner of the private hospital where she worked. When they reached the hospital in search of her, they were threatened that they too would be made to recite the Kalma and converted to Islam. The Hindu family confirmed that their 24-year-old daughter worked as an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) at a private hospital operating under the name "Sai Jeevandan" in Hasanpur, Amroha. She left home on 7 July 2026 and subsequently went missing. When repeated attempts to contact her failed, the victims began searching for her and eventually reached the hospital where she worked. When the victims reached the hospital seeking information about their daughter's whereabouts, they stated that the staff responded with abuse and intimidation instead of cooperating. According to their complaint, one of the victims, the father, was abused with casteist slurs, while the family was threatened, "Leave or we will make you recite the Kalma here and convert you to Islam too." The victims further stated that their daughter's marriage was already fixed. According to them, after learning about the proposed marriage, the hospital owner attempted to sabotage the alliance by influencing the groom's family. He then lured the woman away with false promises and absconded with her. The victims charged the accused with forcibly converting her to Islam and marrying her through Nikah. The victims further stated that the accused concealed his religious identity by operating the hospital under the Hindu-sounding name "Sai Jeevandan". They also stated in their complaint that the establishment functioned as a hub for "love jihad" and illegal cow slaughter. According to the victims, the deceptive name enabled the accused to gain the trust of unsuspecting Hindus by projecting the hospital as a Hindu-owned establishment. Following their daughter's disappearance, members of the Bajrang Dal joined the victims and gathered outside the hospital located on the Rahra-Sambhal Bypass in Hasanpur. Protesters staged a sit-in demonstration and demanded the immediate recovery of the missing woman and strict action against those responsible. Police officers, including the Station House Officer, arrived at the scene with additional personnel, persuaded the protesters to disperse and assured them that a fair investigation would be conducted. The incident also drew attention to the functioning of private medical establishments in the district. The victims and local protesters stated that several such hospitals and clinics operated with the connivance of local authorities. Following the complaint submitted by the victims, the police registered an FIR against Attan, Shahnawaz, Nazreen, Junaid and three unidentified persons under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, provisions relating to unlawful religious conversion, cow slaughter and other applicable offences. Police teams subsequently launched searches to trace the missing woman and the accused hospital owner.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category - Attack resulting in death. Within this, the subcategory is - Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save a 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. Another primary category selected for this case is - Hate speech against Hindus. The selected subcategory 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 from 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. Another category selected is - Violent threats. Violent threats, explicit, implicit or implied, are the most dangerous form of hate speech since it goes beyond discriminatory and prejudicial language to express the intent of causing harm to an individual or a group of people based on their religious identity and faith. There could be several different kinds of threats that are issued to Hindus based on religious animosity. An explicit threat would mean the direct threat of violence towards an individual Hindu, a group of Hindus or Hindus at large. Physical violence, death threats, threats of destruction of property belonging to Hindus and threats of genocide would mean explicit threats against Hindus for their religious identity. Implicit threats may not be a direct threat but implied through the use of symbols of actions – for example – in the Nupur Sharma case, other than explicit threats, there were also implicit threats when Islamists took to the streets to burn and beat her effigies. It implies that they want to do the same to Nupur Sharma – thereby it is considered an implicit threat. Violent threats can be delivered in person, through letters, phone calls, graffiti, or increasingly through social media and other online platforms. It would be important to understand that a threat – explicit or implicit, online or offline – to an individual who happens to be a Hindu does not qualify as a religiously motivated threat. Such a threat, while vile and dangerous, could be owing to non-religious reasons and/or personal animosity. To qualify as a religiously motivated threat, it would need to exhibit an indication that the individual is being targeted for religious reasons and/or owing to his/her religious identity as a Hindu. The case was included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because a Hindu family was subjected to intimidation, caste-based abuse and threats of religious conversion after they opposed the forcible conversion of their daughter. The religious element was central to the incident, as the hostility arose because the family attempted to prevent the conversion of their daughter and secure her return. The threats and abuse targeted the victims specifically because they resisted the conversion, making religion the clear trigger behind the offence. The family's attempt to rescue their daughter immediately invited retaliation. They were intimidated and threatened with conversion. Often Hindus who oppose or attempt to prevent the religious conversion of fellow Hindus are treated as targets themselves and subjected to intimidation, threats and harassment to force them into silence and compel them to abandon their resistance. In this case, the family's efforts to protect their daughter resulted in direct threats and intimidation, demonstrating that they were targeted because they refused to silently accept the conversion of a fellow Hindu. Furthermore, the victim's father was abused with casteist slurs while searching for his missing daughter. The abuse was not merely offensive language but an attempt to humiliate and degrade the family by targeting both their Hindu and Dalit identity. It can be argued that a caste-specific slur is aimed at his micro identity of belonging to the Dalit section of the Hindu community and not his Hindu identity itself. However, in Abrahamic religions, 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. The threats issued against the family further established the religious motive behind the offence. The accused warned them, "Leave, or we will make you recite the Kalma too and convert you to Islam." This was not an ordinary threat of violence but an explicit threat of forced religious conversion. The Kalma is the Islamic declaration of faith, and compelling a Hindu to recite it signifies abandoning one's professed religion and accepting another faith. By invoking conversion itself as the means of intimidation, the accused weaponised religion to silence the family and force them to abandon their efforts to recover their daughter. Disclaimer: For documentation purposes, 7 July 2026 has been treated as the incident date, as this was the day the victim went missing, and the ordeal faced by the victim and her family began. Subsequent events, including the threats, protests and police action, arose directly from the same continuing incident. For documentation purposes, the victim count was recorded as two, comprising the missing Dalit Hindu woman's parents. While the woman was the initial target of the forcible conversion, here, the ordeal of her parents has been recorded while they attempted to locate and rescue their daughter. Additionally, the perpetrator count was recorded as seven (7), comprising the four named accused, Attan, Shahnawaz, Nazreen and Junaid and three unidentified individuals named in the FIR. Since all seven acted together in the commission of the offences, they were documented collectively for categorisation and data consistency.