Hindu woman accuses Muslim YouTuber of deceit, religious conversion and abuse, says she was pressured to eat beef
Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India 
29 September, 2022
Case Summary
A Hindu social media influencer, Vannu De Great, has accused a Muslim YouTuber, Mani Meraj, of trapping her under the guise of love, forcibly converting her, pressuring her to eat beef, and subjecting her to physical and emotional abuse. Meraj was arrested in Anisabad in Patna on October 5, 2025, after weeks on the run, and was detained by Uttar Pradesh Police while attempting to flee toward Sahibganj. Vannu’s complaint, filed at Khoda police station, led to the investigation and his eventual arrest. According to the victim’s account, her ordeal began about two and a half years ago when Meraj befriended her through social media. Gaining her trust, he invited her out and spiked her cold drink with an intoxicant, taking advantage of her while she was unconscious. When she confronted him after regaining consciousness, he allegedly tried to silence her with false promises of marriage. Soon after, Meraj took her to his house and, without informing anyone, secretly performed a nikah (Muslim marriage ritual). He continued to exploit her while keeping the marriage hidden. When she became pregnant, he reportedly forced her to undergo an abortion. The victim also stated that Meraj pressured her to change her religion and to eat beef, violating her religious beliefs and causing deep emotional trauma. The situation worsened when she later discovered that Meraj was already married and had two children, along with other illicit relationships. When she confronted him, he allegedly assaulted her and threatened to harm her and her family if she revealed the truth. Shattered by the betrayal, Vannu later posted a tearful video on social media, exposing her suffering and highlighting that Meraj and his family had been threatening her to stay silent. She stated that she possesses evidence of both the forced conversion attempts and the secret marriage. After the video went viral, Meraj absconded but has now been arrested. He is currently in police custody and will be taken to Uttar Pradesh on transit remand for further investigation. The case highlights the targeted manipulation and coercion faced by a Hindu woman who was deceived, exploited, and pressured to abandon her faith under the guise of love.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the category- Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within this, the first subcategory selected is- Forced conversion after marriage. The tertiary categories selected within this are- Forced to eat beef and Forced to do Nikah. In such cases, a non-Hindu man marries a Hindu woman, and the force/pressure to convert to any Abrahamic faith, like Islam, begins after marriage. 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. The marriage could be under the Special Marriages Act, where neither parties are required to convert their religion for the marriage to be considered legitimate. While the victim in such cases enters matrimony assuming that religious identity is not a barrier, the non-Hindu man starts to pressure the woman to convert her religion after marriage. 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, there is application of force by the perpetrator, including the denial of the woman’s religious rights. Some of the means by which the woman is forced/pressured to convert include force-feeding beef, being forced to read the Kalma, being forced to wear a hijab, forced to undergo Halala, etc. There are several instances where, after marriage, the woman voluntarily converts to Islam. Such cases are often argued to be a result of religious brainwashing, however, for the purpose of documenting religiously motivated hate crimes, in the absence of the victim complaining of forced conversion, such cases do not form a part of the database. The second subcategory selected is- Brainwashed/groomed. Within this, the tertiary categories selected are- Victim says she was brainwashed/groomed and Rape and sexual assault/harassment. 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. This case reflects a deeply disturbing pattern of exploitation that combined emotional manipulation, religious coercion, and physical abuse — making it a clear example of a hate-driven crime against a Hindu woman. The ordeal of influencer Vannu De Great began when she was deceived by YouTuber Manny Meraj, who used emotional grooming and religious manipulation to entrap her. He gained her trust under false pretenses, established control over her mind and emotions, and coerced her into acts that violated her faith, dignity, and personal agency. The victim herself has publicly attested that she was pressured to convert, forced into a Nikah, and coerced to eat beef, acts that directly violated her Hindu beliefs and left her emotionally shattered. In her own recorded statement, she said that she was brainwashed and manipulated under the guise of love and marriage — a confession that underscores how deliberate deception and religious coercion were central to her abuse. Meraj conducted a Nikah with the victim without her informed consent, imposing a religious identity and marriage that she neither agreed to nor understood. This act of religious imposition was part of a larger process aimed at severing her connection to her Hindu identity. Such forced religious ceremonies serve as a means of domination, designed to erase the victim’s spiritual and cultural autonomy under the cover of a relationship. The victim also stated that she was pressured to eat beef and abandon her Hindu practices — a deliberate act meant to humiliate and degrade her religious beliefs. In Hindu tradition, reverence for the cow is sacred, and compelling a Hindu to violate this tenet is an attack on both personal faith and community identity. Such coercion represents not just physical abuse but a targeted attempt to desecrate what is holy and sacred to her as a Hindu. Throughout her ordeal, the victim was groomed and psychologically conditioned to obey, her emotions exploited to break her resistance and force compliance. The grooming process was systematic and intentional — meant to isolate her, weaken her will, and make her submit to the perpetrator’s control, both sexually and spiritually. The case also includes clear instances of sexual assault and physical violence, showing that the abuse was deeply intertwined with religious domination. The exploitation of her body was inseparable from the attempt to break her spirit and erase her Hindu identity. In its entirety, this case is not just a story of personal betrayal but a hate-driven act of religious subjugation. A Hindu woman was deceived, manipulated, and coerced into abandoning her faith and dignity through a calculated process of grooming and forced conversion. The Nikah, the pressure to eat beef, and the continuous emotional and physical control all demonstrate a conscious effort to destroy her sense of self as a Hindu. This makes the incident a clear example of a religiously motivated hate crime rooted in contempt for Hindu identity and faith.
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 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Case sub-judice
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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