Hindu student held captive, raped, and blackmailed with obscene videos for religious conversion by Muslim man

Case ID : 30a9e88 | Location : Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Fri, 31 July, 2026

Case ID : 30a9e88

Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India

31 July, 2026

Hindu student held captive, raped, and blackmailed with obscene videos for religious conversion by Muslim man

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Forced conversion before marriage

Blackmailed to convert

Case Summary

In Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, a 20-year-old Hindu student was lured and raped by her Muslim classmate, Zuber Mansoori. He held her captive inside a house, recorded an objectionable video of her during the sexual assault, and used the video to blackmail her to convert to Islam. According to reports, the victim was pursuing a BAMS degree at a private college where she came into contact with the Muslim accused, Zuber Mansuri, son of Ajit Mansuri, who was her classmate. On August 1, 2026, at around 5:30 p.m., Zuber took her to a house in Shastri Nagar, where he held her hostage and forcibly raped her. During the incident, he also recorded an obscene video of her. Following the assault, Zuber used the video to blackmail and intimidate the student. He pressured her to convert from Hinduism to Islam and marry him, and threatened to circulate the video publicly and kill her if she refused. Fearing these threats, the student did not initially inform her family. Zuber subsequently circulated the obscene video on social media, including Snapchat, after which the student informed her parents about the incident. Her family then accompanied her to the Station Road police station, where she filed a complaint and handed over a pen drive containing the circulated video to the police. Police registered a case against Zuber under relevant provisions relating to rape, the Information Technology Act and the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act. Following the registration of the case, police traced Zuber to Varla in Barwani district and detained him. His mobile phone was also seized as part of the investigation. Police stated that they would examine the circumstances in which Zuber took the student to the house, question the owner of the premises and examine CCTV footage from the location and surrounding areas.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is: Crime against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within this, the first subcategory selected is: Forced conversion before marriage. 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 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 second subcategory selected in this case 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. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu woman was subjected to sexual violence and coercive pressure to convert to Islam by a Muslim man. In this case, the accused pressured her to abandon Hinduism and adopt Islam. The demand for religious conversion was directly linked to his demand that she marry him. The combination of sexual violence, blackmail, threats and an explicit demand to surrender her Hindu religious identity provided the religious element that distinguished the case from an ordinary sexual-assault offence. Therefore, the case was classified as a religiously motivated hate crime against Hindus. Firstly, the accused pressured her to leave Hinduism, convert to Islam and marry him. Her account directly connected the proposed marriage with a change in her religious identity. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard her religious faith and embrace another was a direct attack on her religious identity and dignity. It was not a matter of personal choice; it was coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act was not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making it a religiously motivated crime. Secondly, the blackmail arose from the objectionable video that the accused recorded during the sexual assault. The recording was used as a leverage against her in an effort to convert her to Islam. The pressure to change her religion was therefore reinforced through the threat of exposing highly compromising personal material. Often in such cases, sexual violence, blackmail and threats serve a dual purpose: physical subjugation and religious humiliation. The intention was to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she could be converted. This was not random violence; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. Such actions stem 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 acts were not merely personal crimes; they were rooted in a desire to dominate and erase the religious identity of the victim. Such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents. The combination of religious coercion, sexual violence and blackmail demonstrated a deliberate attempt to compel the victim to surrender her Hindu identity through fear and intimidation, providing a clear basis for classifying the incident as a religiously motivated hate crime against Hindus.