Minor Hindu girl was abducted, held captive and forcibly converted for Nikah by two Muslim men in Haryana
Nuh, Haryana, India 
19 August, 2025
Case Summary
In the Tawadu area of Nuh district, Haryana, a 17-year-old Hindu girl was abducted, held captive and forcibly converted for Nikah (Islamic marriage) by a Muslim man named Tariq and a Maulvi, Raeesuddin. The accused also forged her documents and married her off to a Muslim man. According to reports, the minor girl went missing on 20 August 2025, and her family lodged a complaint at the police Station, stating that Tariq, a resident of Bhadangpur, had lured her away. Police investigations revealed that Tariq had kidnapped the minor Hindu girl and converted her to Islam. Tariq, along with Maulvi Raeesuddin, forged her documents to prove she was an adult and forcibly performed her Nikah (Islamic marriage) with a Muslim man. The witnesses listed in the marriage certificate were entirely fabricated and had no connection to the case, the accused or the victim. Police arrested both Tariq and Maulvi Raeesuddin, recovered the fake Nikahnama and other forged documents. They also detained two other suspects for interrogation. The accused were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Nuh and remanded to police custody. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, with the tertiary category being - Conversion of minor. 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 other sub-category selected here 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 religio,n are rooted in animosity towards the victim’s religious identity and are therefore documented as religiously motivated hate crimes. This case has been added to the tracker because a minor Hindu girl was abducted, held captive, and forcibly converted for Nikah by two Muslim men. The accused abducted her and held her captive, attempting to force the Hindu victim to renounce her religion and convert to Islam. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard her faith is not a matter of personal choice; it is coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim’s Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act is aimed at erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making this a religiously motivated crime. The purpose of this act was to destroy her religious identity. In the Islamic faith, the conversion of the non-Muslim partner was seen as a prerequisite for Nikah, which was why the minor girl was converted to Islam. The accused even forged her documents to make her eligible for nikah, further proving the religiously motivated nature of the whole crime. Forced conversions such as this do not occur in a vacuum; they are rooted in deep‑seated hostility towards the faith of the victim, which makes this a clear case of a crime driven by religious hatred. The victim was abducted and held captive in an effort to isolate her from her social circle and her cultural identity. In such cases, abduction and forced isolation serve a dual purpose: physical subjugation and religious humiliation. The intention is to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she can be converted. This was not random violence; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. It is further important to note here that the victim was a minor, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They may not have the ability to fully understand the implications of converting to another religion or consenting to Nikah, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. Additionally, any supposed consent given by the minor is already considered invalid under the POCSO Act. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religious conversion, it is a blatant act of religious hate, which is why it has been documented here in the hate tracker. Such acts are not merely criminal in nature; they are ideologically charged, revealing religious prejudice and a calculated intent to alter the religious identity of a minor without her volition. 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. Therefore, religious conversions, even of minors, are often seen as a badge of honour, totally disregarding the methods used to achieve it. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported. Thus, the date of the incident is recorded as 20 August 2025 - the day on which she was abducted.
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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