Hindu minor girl raped and blackmailed with obscene video, pressured to convert to Islam and undergo nikah in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
4 July, 2026
Case Summary
A 16-year-old Hindu girl studying in Class 9 was raped in the Hathgaon police station area of Fatehpur district by a Muslim man identified as Jasim. The incident occurred on 5 July 2026 when Jasim lured the minor to a deserted ruin, sexually assaulted her, recorded an obscene video of the assault, and later used it to blackmail her for conversion and nikah. The victim's mother filed a complaint at the Hathgaon police station in which she stated that Jasim, a resident of the same village, had been harassing her daughter for nearly a year before the incident. Her daughter was pressured to convert to Islam and marry the Muslim accused through nikah. The accused threatened her with serious consequences if she refused. Unable to bear the intimidation and threats, the girl informed her family about the incident. Based on the complaint, the police registered a case against Jasim and his associate, Akash. According to Station House Officer Arun Kumar Chaturvedi, Jasim (22) was identified as the primary accused in the rape of the minor girl, while Akash (21) aided him in recording and circulating the video of the incident. The case was registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Information Technology (IT) Act, and relevant provisions related to rape. Police conducted a forensic examination of the crime scene. They also attempted to recover the video mentioned by the victim from the accused's mobile phones. Police stated that no one found guilty would be spared. Both accused were arrested at around 1 p.m. on 18 July 2026 (Saturday) near the Shahpur canal bridge, and legal proceedings were initiated to send them to jail.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected here is: Predatory Proselytisation, with the subcategory selected: Harassment, threats and 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 other primary category selected is: Crime against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within this, the selected subcategory 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 her religion, owing to her religious identity of being 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 her 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 subcategory is: Forced conversion before marriage. Within this, the tertiary category selected is: 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 her 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 her religion and give up her religious identity. In both the 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 pressurizing 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 third selected subcategory 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 pressurizing 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 offences in this case extended beyond sexual assault and blackmail. According to the victim, the accused repeatedly pressured her to convert to Islam and marry him through nikah, using an obscene video of the sexual assault as a means of coercion. When she refused to abandon her faith, he threatened her with serious consequences. The demand for conversion was therefore not incidental to the crime but formed an integral part of the accused's conduct, making the victim's Hindu identity central to the offence. The coercion was directed specifically at compelling the victim to relinquish her Hindu identity and accept Islam as a precondition for marriage. Rather than respecting her freedom of conscience, the accused sought to achieve religious conformity through intimidation, threats, and blackmail. His objective was not merely to pursue a personal relationship but to secure the victim's conversion by exploiting her vulnerability following the sexual assault. The use of an obscene video to pressure the victim into changing her religion is particularly significant. By retaining compromising material and threatening to use it against her, the accused deprived the victim of any possibility of making a free and voluntary decision regarding her faith. Instead, fear of public humiliation and social consequences became the mechanism through which religious conversion was pursued. Such coercion is fundamentally incompatible with the principle of informed and voluntary religious choice. Since the accused used sexual exploitation, blackmail, and criminal intimidation to compel a Hindu minor to convert to Islam and marry through nikah, the incident extends beyond sexual violence. The victim's Hindu identity became the basis for sustained religious coercion, with conversion forming a central objective of the abuse. It is also important to mention that since the victim, in this case, is a minor, there was an absence of both consent and a genuine change of conscience. It is a well-established fact that children are more susceptible to manipulation since they are still developing emotionally, cognitively, and socially. Their brains are not fully mature, making them more vulnerable to influence and less capable of critically evaluating information. Consequently, cases involving religious manipulation of minors not only represent an infringement on an individual's religious freedom but also demonstrate a calculated strategy of targeting those who are less able to resist or understand the long-term implications of conversion, making it a significant case of religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The primary accused in this case had been identified in police records and media reports as a Muslim man. The religious identity of the co-accused, who assisted in the commission of the offence, had not been established in the publicly available information. For the purposes of classification and documentation, the perpetrator's religion has therefore been recorded as Muslim, based on the identity of the principal accused.
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 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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