Hindu woman drugged, kidnapped, forced into religious conversion and nikah, subjected to sexual assault by Muslim man

Case ID : 30a9e24 | Location : Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Fri, 12 May, 2023

Case ID : 30a9e24

Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

12 May, 2023

Hindu woman drugged, kidnapped, forced into religious conversion and nikah, subjected to sexual assault by Muslim man

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Forced conversion before marriage

Forced to do Nikah

Case Summary

A Hindu woman was befriended by a Muslim man, Nasib Alam, through the Haya app and was subsequently kidnapped. She was drugged before being subjected to religious conversion and forced into a nikah. Following the conversion and marriage, she was given the Muslim name “Nasiba”. The woman was also subjected to sexual abuse and pressured to consume intoxicating pills and beer against her will. The incident took place on 13 May 2023, when Nasib Alam, a resident of Bihar, kidnapped the Hindu woman from Fatehabad in Agra. During the investigation, police traced the victim to Bihar through surveillance and recovered her from the custody of the accused. Following the investigation, the police filed a charge sheet against Nasib Alam on charges including kidnapping, wrongful confinement, sexual abuse, and illegal religious conversion. The roles of several other individuals initially named in the case did not emerge during the investigation, following which their names were removed from the case. A separate charge sheet was filed against Maulvi Mohammad Amin, who was accused of conducting the victim's nikah. The statements of seven witnesses, including the victim, were recorded before the court. The case was heard by Additional District Judge-10 Pradeep Kumar in Agra. After considering the evidence and arguments presented by Assistant District Government Counsel Natthu Singh Dhakre, the court convicted Nasib Alam. Nasib Alam was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and fined Rs 55,000. Maulvi Mohammad Amin was acquitted due to insufficient evidence.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Forced conversion before marriage. 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, 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 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 pressuring 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. This case has been added to the Hinduphobia tracker because it embodies a targeted assault on a Hindu woman where religious identity was not incidental but central to the crime's design and execution. The Hindu woman was deceived into an emotional acquaintance, then systematically stripped of her faith, her name, and her bodily autonomy in a coordinated sequence that reveals hostility toward her Hindu religious identity. Nasib Alam did not simply commit a personal crime or opportunism against a woman who happened to be Hindu; he treated her Hindu identity as an obstacle to be dismantled and replaced. The renaming of the victim to "Nasiba", the ritual imposition of an Islamic religious framework, and the coercive pipeline from digital acquaintance to forced Islamic marriage all indicate that her Hinduism itself was the trigger for the escalating abuse. The court's willingness to convict on charges that included illegal religious conversion further affirms that this was recognised within the legal record as an offence with a communal and ideological dimension, not merely an interpersonal one. Firstly, the sequence of events reveals a deliberate architecture in which religious conversion was engineered as the gateway to marriage rather than emerging from any authentic spiritual journey or mutual understanding. The victim was first isolated from her familiar surroundings, then rendered semi-conscious through an intoxicating drink, and only in that compromised state was she subjected to the religious rites that stripped her of her Hindu identity. A conversion carried out on a semi-conscious woman cannot be described as voluntary; it is a ritual performed on a body, not a decision made by a mind. Immediately following this coerced conversion, she was pushed into a nikah under the fabricated Islamic name "Nasiba," with Maulvi Mohammad Amin officiating the ceremony that gave the arrangement a veneer of religious legitimacy. These actions exposed the marriage as the operational goal and the conversion as the pretextual doorway required to reach it. This is precisely the pattern that a woman is not permitted to remain Hindu and marry but is instead processed through conversion as a prerequisite step imposed upon her without meaningful consent. Secondly, the abuse did not begin at the moment of physical violation but was carefully cultivated through stages of psychological manipulation that began on the Haya app itself. Nasib Alam used the digital platform to establish an emotional foothold, presenting himself in a manner calculated to earn trust before that trust could be weaponised. The grooming trajectory then advanced through relocation, luring her away from her support networks and into an environment where she had no allies, no witnesses, and no easy exit. The administration of an intoxicating drink to induce semi-consciousness represents the deliberate chemical dismantling of her capacity to resist, refuse, or even fully perceive what was being done to her body. The pressure placed on her to procure intoxicating pills and beer indicates an ongoing effort to keep her cognitively compromised and behaviorally compliant, ensuring that the sexual abuse could continue under conditions where her agency remained suppressed. The Muslim perpetrator treated the victim's Hindu identity as something that needed to be replaced with an Islamic identity. The sequence—befriending, kidnapping, the conversion, and the nikah under the name “Nasiba” was an attempt to gain control over both her personal life and religious identity. Such acts are carried out by Muslim perpetrators due to indoctrination by Islamic theology, which advocates that all non-Muslims (referred to as kafirs) are inferior and subject to subjugation unless they convert to Islam or live under Islamic rule (dhimmitude). These ideas are not mere abstractions; they manifest in actions where non-Muslims, especially Hindus in India, are seen as targets for religious domination, coercion, or humiliation. This theological framework fosters an "us versus them" mindset, in which any assertion of Hindu identity or religious freedom is seen not only as undesirable but as a threat to Islamic supremacy. As a result, perpetrators who are shaped by such teachings feel justified, even morally obligated, to harass, suppress, or violently attack Hindus, particularly when Hindus assert their religious rights or resist conversion. As a result, Muslim perpetrators invoke such doctrines to justify coercive attempts to convert non-Muslims, particularly Hindus, portraying conversion as a means of abandoning Kufr (a state of disbelief in Islam or disbelief in Islam) and attaining salvation. Such acts, therefore, are not isolated but driven by a broader ideological hostility towards Hindus as non-believers and reflect an attempt to impose religious dominance. Since this case was also not a random, isolated incident of grooming but a premeditated attack motivated by bias and hatred against the Hindu community, which is a defining feature of hate crimes, this has been added to the tracker.