Minor Hindu girl abducted by Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh; family fears forced religious conversion
Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India 
9 October, 2025
Case Summary
A 17-year-old Hindu girl was kidnapped in Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh, by a Muslim man named Hasan Ali. The victim's family stated that the accused would forcibly convert her to Islam and harm her. According to reports, this incident occurred while she was on her way to a coaching centre on 10 October 2025. The victim was travelling to Devraj Brahma Mor in Bairia when the accused, Hasan Ali, a resident of Lalganj in the Dokati area, stopped her e-rickshaw, forced her onto his bike, and fled the scene. Following this, the victim’s grandmother filed a complaint naming Hasan Ali as the kidnapper. She stated that the police did not take prompt action despite the initial complaint. Instead, officers only called the accused’s father to the station and asked him to bring the girl, but no follow-up steps were taken. The family then filed a second complaint on 19 October 2025 after the girl remained missing. The victim’s grandmother expressed fear that the accused might harm or forcibly convert her granddaughter to Islam. The police then registered a case under the relevant sections of the Indian law and initiated an investigation. Police Circle Officer (CO) of Bairia, Mohammad Faheem Qureshi, confirmed that multiple teams were formed to search for the girl. Authorities urged locals to maintain peace and stated that further conclusions will be drawn after the investigation is completed. As of the date of writing this report, the victim girl has not yet been located.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category in this case is: Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory under this is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary categories under this are: Family claims grooming and 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. Another subcategory under this category 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. In this case, a Hindu minor girl was targeted by the Muslim perpetrator, Hasan Ali, who abducted her with the intent to influence or alter her religious beliefs. The complaint filed by the victim’s grandmother clearly stated that the abduction occurred, and despite the family’s immediate reporting, the police failed to act decisively. Their inaction enabled the accused to maintain control over the minor, intensifying the family’s fear that she was being forcefully converted. The essential element in this case lies in the victim’s age and the consequent absence of free and informed consent. Being a minor, the girl could not have exercised independent judgment or understood the permanence and gravity of religious conversion. Any such decision made under these circumstances would, by definition, be invalid, as minors are legally and psychologically incapable of making such choices freely. The abduction itself indicates a lack of agency and voluntary participation, while the family’s consistent apprehension about forced conversion points to the religious motivation underlying the crime. Religious grooming and brainwashing involve sustained psychological manipulation to induce a change of faith through emotional dependency, deceit, or exploitation of trust. The conduct of the perpetrator, in this case, aligns with this pattern. The targeting of a Hindu minor by a Muslim adult introduces an asymmetry of power that is both moral and ideological. The victim’s immaturity and dependence were exploited to undermine her attachment to her own religion and to draw her towards the faith of the abductor. The exploitation of such vulnerability for religious ends constitutes predatory behaviour that directly attacks the integrity and freedom of belief of Hindu individuals. The familial anxiety, reflected in the grandmother’s repeated complaints, underscores a broader societal concern about the use of deceit, coercion, and psychological manipulation to achieve religious conversion. The religious motivation behind the abduction is evident from the context and from the family’s expressed fear of forced religious change. Such acts are documented as religiously motivated hate crimes because they target the victim on the basis of her Hindu identity. The intent is not merely personal or criminal but ideological—aimed at eroding the faith of the victim and converting her to another religion through predatory means. The case thus reflects both an individual act of exploitation and a manifestation of systemic hostility towards Hindu identity. Therefore, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker.
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 registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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