Hindu woman trapped, brainwashed and pressured to convert and wear burqa by Muslim man; victim reveals accused similarly targeted several Hindu women

Case ID : 30aaa92 | Location : Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 19 September, 2026

Case ID : 30aaa92

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

19 September, 2026

Hindu woman trapped, brainwashed and pressured to convert and wear burqa by Muslim man; victim reveals accused similarly targeted several Hindu women

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Brainwashed and/or groomed

Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed

Family claims grooming

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Case Summary

In Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, a 25-year-old Hindu woman belonging to the Dalit community was lured into a relationship, brainwashed and forced to convert to Islam and wear a burqa by a Muslim man, Misyar Khan. The victim also revealed that the accused trapped multiple other Hindu women and forcibly converted them to Islam. The woman was originally a resident of a village under Jehanabad police station in Pilibhit. She worked for a company in Greater Noida and lived there. Misyar, a resident of neighbouring Kataiya village, had previously worked as a car washer and frequently visited the woman's family home. The woman had also worked as a car washer in the village. After learning that she had moved to Greater Noida for work, Misyar also moved to the city and, along with his Muslim associates, lured her into a romantic relationship before brainwashing her and forcing her to convert to Islam. After forcing her to convert, Misyar began keeping the woman with him and physically abusing her. She was kept isolated and was forced to wear a burqa and prevented from meeting or speaking to others. The woman did not initially tell her family about what she was enduring out of fear. On 20 September 2026, she managed to escape from the accused's clutches and returned to her village. She later disclosed her ordeal to her family, telling them that Misyar and his associates targeted and brainwashed several Hindu women, converted them to Islam and then physically abused them. She also expressed fear that the accused might return for her. On 30 September 2026, the woman's father had gone out to work as a hawker while her mother had gone to the market. When they returned, they found that the woman was missing. Villagers told the family that they had seen Misyar Khan, his brother Shahryar Khan and two unidentified men forcibly taking her away. The four accused were travelling on two motorcycles. The woman's father subsequently went to Misyar's house but found it locked. The family has had no information about her whereabouts since her abduction. Based on the father's complaint, Jehanabad police registered a case against four accused, including the two brothers, under charges including kidnapping, assault and violations of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Religious Conversion Act. Police launched a search for the woman and were investigating the case. Jehanabad Inspector-in-Charge Jaishankar Singh confirmed that a case had been registered and that the investigation was underway.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case is being added to the tracker under the primary category: Crimes against women in relationships or other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary categories selected are: 'Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed' and 'Family claims grooming'. In our database, we have not added incidents where women have converted to another religion of their free will and no allegations of forced/involuntary conversion have been made. However, there are certain cases of conversion where the consent itself is a result of the brainwashing or grooming of a minor by the non-Hindu perpetrator trying to victimise a woman for her Hindu religious identity. The phenomenon of grooming points to non-Hindu perpetrators identifying their Hindu victims’ vulnerabilities and exploiting them over months and sometimes years, to extract the supposed ‘consent’ in order to convert their religion. In most cases of grooming, the victims are minors or the grooming started when the victim was a minor. In other cases of grooming, the non-Hindu perpetrator brainwashes and grooms a minor victim to extract their trust and then proceeds to rape them repeatedly with the intent of converting them to their faith. It is pertinent to understand here that when the victim is a minor, the ‘consent’ to convert or enter into a romantic relationship with an adult itself is redundant – addressed by POCSO. While every case of conversion of a minor and incidents of establishing a physical relationship with a minor by an adult is a crime, for the purpose of this database, a case would be considered a hate crime only if there is a distinct religious angle to the grooming. For example, in the UK, if a Hindu minor is targeted by Pakistani grooming gangs, it would be considered a hate crime because the victims are specifically targeted owing to their non-Muslim religious identity with the perpetrators being Muslim. In other cases, if a Hindu minor is brainwashed into entering a physical relationship with the non-Hindu adult perpetrator and the family alleges grooming/brainwashing of the minor to convert her religion, it would form a part of this database. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered a hate crime. The second primary category selected is: Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory selected is: Harassment, threats, 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. Such cases where Hindu victims are harassed to convert to the perpetrator’s religion are rooted in animosity towards the victim’s religious identity and are therefore documented as religiously motivated hate crimes. This is a clear example of a religiously driven hate crime because a Hindu woman was lured into a relationship, subjected to psychological manipulation and brainwashing, and ultimately forced to convert to Islam through coercive means. The fact that the victim was lured into a relationship with the objective of eventually converting her demonstrates that her Hindu identity was deliberately targeted. The perpetrator established a romantic relationship with her and subsequently sought to alter her religious identity, making the relationship predatory in nature from the outset. The perpetrator did not conceal his Muslim identity or use religious deception to enter the relationship. This meant that the victim entered the relationship believing that their religious differences would not become a basis for their romantic involvement. However, the subsequent pressure to convert, combined with psychological manipulation and brainwashing, demonstrates that conversion was the ultimate objective of the relationship. Deliberately targeting a Hindu woman and trapping her in a relationship with the intention of changing her faith demonstrates religious profiling and deep-seated hostility towards her Hindu identity. The victim's escape from the perpetrator's clutches, followed by her disclosure of the ordeal to her family, demonstrates the coercive nature of the conversion attempt. She was subjected to psychological manipulation and brainwashing with the objective of making her abandon her Hindu faith and adopt Islam. Brainwashing in the context of religious conversion involves gradually introducing the targeted individual to the beliefs, practices and worldview of another religion, repeatedly presenting those beliefs as necessary or superior, and psychologically conditioning the individual to distance themselves from their existing religious identity. Such manipulation works by gradually altering a person's perception of their own faith while normalising the Islamic beliefs and practices being imposed upon them. In this case, the use of such brainwashing tactics to alter the religious identity of a Hindu woman demonstrates a deliberate attempt to undermine her religious autonomy rather than respect her freedom to retain her faith. The systematic effort to weaken her Hindu identity and replace it with an Islamic identity demonstrates deep-seated religious hostility towards Hinduism. The conversion involved coercion, with the victim being forced to abandon her Hindu faith and adopt Islam against her will. Such coercion strips an individual of the freedom to determine their own religious beliefs and identity, replacing a personal choice with an imposed religious affiliation. Religious faith is a fundamental aspect of a person's identity, and compelling someone to renounce one faith in favour of another disregards their right to preserve and practise the religion they follow. In this case, the use of force to impose Islam upon a Hindu woman demonstrates that her religious autonomy was deliberately overridden. Rather than respecting her Hindu identity and allowing her to make an independent decision about her faith, the perpetrator sought to determine her religious identity through coercion. The forced conversion therefore reflects hostility towards her Hindu faith and a deliberate attempt to deprive her of the freedom to retain her religious identity. The act of forcing the victim to wear a burqa further demonstrates the imposition of an Islamic identity upon her. The act went beyond compelling her to change her religion and extended to imposing Islamic customs and dress upon her. By controlling her clothing and compelling her to adopt an Islamic mode of dress, the perpetrator sought to suppress her Hindu identity and impose an Islamic way of life. This forced adoption of religious practices demonstrates hostility towards her existing faith and an intention to replace her Hindu identity with an externally imposed Islamic identity. The subsequent abduction of the victim after she escaped and returned to her family further escalated the severity of the religiously motivated offence. After breaking free from the perpetrator's control, disclosing her ordeal to her family and returning to her village, she was abducted again by the perpetrator and his associates. The fact that the perpetrators pursued her even after she had escaped demonstrates the extreme lengths to which they were prepared to go to reassert control over her. Her abduction after she had rejected the coercive environment and returned to her family demonstrates that her refusal to submit to the conversion attempt was met with further force and deprivation of liberty. The decision to abduct her again in pursuit of the same coercive relationship and conversion objective demonstrates an extreme level of religious zeal and hostility. The use of abduction after the victim had already escaped significantly increases the severity of the case and demonstrates the perpetrators' determination to override her religious autonomy through force. The fact that the perpetrators similarly targeted several other Hindu women, assaulted them and sought to convert them to Islam establishes a pattern of conduct rather than an isolated incident. The repeated use of relationship-based entrapment, coercion, assault and forced conversion against Hindu women demonstrates deliberate targeting based on their religious identity. This pattern strengthens the religious dimension of the crime and demonstrates sustained hostility towards Hindu women and their faith, significantly increasing the severity of the offence. Overall, since this case meets the parameters of a religiously driven crime, it is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim's ordeal began, rather than when the media reported the incident. In this case, the available reports do not specify the exact date when the Hindu woman was initially held hostage and forced to convert in Greater Noida. Therefore, 20 September 2026, the date the victim escaped captivity and returned to her family home in Pilibhit, has been selected as the indicative incident date. This date is being recorded strictly for documentation purposes only. Although the case mentions multiple other Hindu women who were targeted, assaulted and subjected to conversion, only one Hindu woman has been specifically identified as a victim. As the total number of victims has not been specified, the victim count has been recorded as one for documentation purposes only.