Minor Hindu girl lured, sexually assaulted, forcibly converted to Islam and made to undergo nikah by Muslim posing as Hindu
Karimganj, Assam, India 
31 October, 2026
Case Summary
In the Shonbil area of Sribhumi (Karimganj) district, Assam, a minor Hindu girl was lured into a romantic relationship by a Muslim man pretending to be a Hindu. The victim was pressured to convert to Islam and forced to undergo a nikah (Islamic marriage). She was also subjected to sexual assault by the perpetrator. The accused was identified as Asgar Ali, alias Aagar Ali, who concealed his religious identity and pretended to be a Hindu man named ‘Suman Roy’. He created a fake Instagram profile using the name Suman Roy and lured the victim into a relationship, thereby gaining her trust. He subsequently took her to Deoghar on the pretext of marrying her, where she discovered his actual religious identity. Asgar Ali and a few other Muslim men then pressured her to convert to Islam and forced her to undergo a nikah. Following the conversion and marriage, she was given a new Islamic name and was sexually assaulted by Asgar Ali at a rented house in Deoghar. The situation changed following an incident in Bagargol village, under Badarpur Police Station in Sribhumi district, where local Hindus set fire to the house of a Muslim man named Sohel Ahmed for abducting and raping a minor Hindu girl. Fearing similar retaliation from the Hindu community, Asgar Ali's father instructed him to send the Hindu girl back to her parental home. Acting on his father's instructions, Asgar Ali purchased a train ticket and sent her to Badarpur railway station, from where she returned home. Following her return, an official police complaint was filed against Asgar Ali. However, he had not been arrested at the time of writing this report.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case is being added to the tracker under the primary category: Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory selected is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary categories selected are: Conversion of minor, Rape and sexual assault/harassment. Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting regimented ideas. Religious grooming or brainwashing also involves propaganda and manipulation. It involves the systematic effort, driven by religious malice and indoctrination, to persuade “non-believers’ to accept allegiance, command, or doctrine to and of a contrasting faith. Cases of such grooming or brainwashing are far more nuanced than direct threats, coercion, inducement and violence. In such cases, it is often seen that there is repeated, subtle and continual manipulation of the victim to induce disaffection towards their own faith and acceptance of the contrasting faith of the perpetrator. While subtle indoctrination is widely acknowledged as predatory, an element which is often understated in such conversions or the attempts of such conversion is the role of loyalty and trust which might develop between the perpetrator and the victim. Fiduciary relationships are often abused to affect such religious conversion. For example, an educator transmitting religious doctrine of a competing faith to a Hindu student. The Hindu student is likely to accept what the teacher is transmitting owing to existence of the fiduciary relationship. The exploitation of the fiduciary relationship to religiously indoctrinate victims would also be included in this category. Since the underlying animosity towards the victim’s faith forms the basis of predatory proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. The second primary category selected is: Crimes against women in relationships or other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is: Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category selected is: Name Changed. When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by malafide intentions. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc), or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. The other subcategory selected is: Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary categories selected are: Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of minor. 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 other 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, 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. In this case, the minor Hindu girl was deceived into a romantic relationship by a Muslim man pretending to be a Hindu. Subsequently, she was abducted, sexually assaulted, pressured to convert to Islam and made to undergo a nikah. These circumstances made this incident an example of a religiously motivated hate crime. Firstly, the perpetrator's act of deception by posing as a Hindu itself demonstrated a clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim’s religion. By hiding his true identity, the Muslim man manipulated the Hindu victim's trust and targeted her under false pretences, indicating a premeditated effort to exploit the girl based on her religious background. This constituted a direct violation of her right to personal autonomy regarding whom she chose to be in a relationship with, as well as an infringement upon her religious beliefs. Thus, the perpetrator’s deliberate decision to hide his religious identity strongly underscored the religious motive behind this crime. In such instances, identity concealment was not just a deceptive tactic for personal reasons but a calculated strategy rooted in religious profiling and targeting. The accused was aware that the victim, being Hindu, would likely refuse his advances if she knew his real identity, and he circumvented this by lying, which directly pointed to a religiously driven intent. This deception reflected a larger pattern where Hindu women and minor Hindu girls were specifically singled out using false identities by Muslim men, often with coercion or conversion in mind. Such targeted victimisation based on religion not only demonstrated a fundamental disregard for Hinduism but also exposed a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs. Furthermore, the victim's status as a minor made the religious motive of the case even clearer and her vulnerability even more evident. Being a minor meant that the elements of consent and genuine change of conscience were missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are the most vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They do not understand the long-term ramifications of being in a relationship with an adult or changing their faith, and the perpetrator exploited this age-related vulnerability to target the victim, sexually exploit her and forcibly convert her, making this a clear example of a religiously motivated hate crime. The victim's removal from her home to a distant location in Deoghar, where she was isolated from her immediate family and community, further highlighted the coercive methods employed in this case. By separating the minor from her Hindu family and familiar surroundings, the perpetrator placed her in a vulnerable position, away from the support and protection of her close circles. It was in these circumstances that she was pressured to convert to Islam and forced to undergo nikah. Taking a minor away from her home, isolating her from her family and community and subsequently subjecting her to religious coercion constituted a method of harassment and intimidation employed to carry out the conversion. This demonstrated how the victim's isolation was used to facilitate her exploitation and forced conversion, making it a clear instance of targeted religious victimisation. Moreover, the victim's forced conversion to Islam and the subsequent nikah showcased the deep-seated religious hostility involved in the case. Forcibly converting an individual violates their religious autonomy and freedom of conscience. By coercing the Hindu victim into abandoning her faith and embracing Islam, the perpetrator treated her religious identity as something inferior that had to be discarded and replaced. This demonstrated a complete disregard for her Hindu identity and religious beliefs. The deliberate attempt to sever her association with Hinduism and impose another faith against her will further underscored the religious hostility underlying the crime, making it a clear case of a religiously motivated hate crime. The forced nikah further highlighted the religious motive behind the entire crime. Under traditional Islamic jurisprudence, a Hindu woman cannot enter into a valid nikah with a Muslim man unless she first converts to Islam. Consequently, conversion becomes a prerequisite for the marriage under this religious framework. The victim's forced conversion to Islam, followed by the nikah, demonstrated that the perpetrator had converted her to fulfil this religious requirement. Moreover, the marriage itself served as a tool to formalise and institutionalise the forced religious conversion, while also enabling the perpetrator to dominate and exercise control over the victim under the pretext of a marital relationship. This deliberate sequence of forced conversion followed by nikah further underscored the religious hostility and coercion involved, making it a clear indicator of a religiously motivated hate crime. Furthermore, the replacement of the victim's Hindu name with a new Islamic name demonstrated the extent to which the perpetrators sought to erase every aspect of her Hindu identity, including her name. This deliberate act of replacing her Hindu name with an Islamic one further underscored the attempt to sever her connections with her religious and cultural identity and impose a new identity upon her. This also highlighted the religious hostility towards her Hindu identity, making it a clear indicator of a religiously motivated hate crime. The victim's subsequent sexual exploitation further highlighted the extent of the exploitation and abuse she was subjected to. She was initially targeted through the concealment of the perpetrator's religious identity, subsequently pressured to abandon her Hindu faith and then sexually assaulted. The sexual assault, when viewed in the context of the preceding religious deception, coercion and forced conversion, carried significant religious markers. The circumstances demonstrated that the victim had been targeted from the outset on the basis of her Hindu identity and that the perpetrator had shown complete disregard for her dignity, autonomy and religious beliefs. Her sexual exploitation formed part of the wider pattern of targeted victimisation, further underscoring the anti-Hindu hostility involved and making this a clear case of a religiously motivated hate crime. Overall, since this case meets the parameters of a religiously motivated offence, it is being added to the Hinduphobia Tracker's hate crime database. Disclaimer: Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the victim's ordeal begins rather than when the incident is reported by the media. In this case, the exact date on which the victim's ordeal began was not specified. Hence, 1 November 2026, the date on which the incident was first reported by the media, has been selected as the indicative incident date for documentation purposes only. Although Asgar Ali was the principal perpetrator, his father's involvement in instructing him to send the victim back to her parental home indicated that he was aware of his son's actions and did not object to the crime itself. Accordingly, the perpetrator count has been recorded as two, referring to Asgar Ali and his father. While several other individuals were also involved in carrying out the forced conversion, their exact number was not specified. Hence, a conservative estimate of two perpetrators has been recorded for documentation purposes.
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
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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