Hindu girl abducted by a Muslim youth living in the neighbourhood, father and brother says accused had plans to convert her to Islam and when they failed they kidnapped her
Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 
14 December, 2023
Case Summary
A 20-year-old girl was abducted in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar. The girl had gone out to attend nature’s call with her mother at the time when accused Izmamul Ansari, Alamgir, Meraj Ansari, and Naushad Ansari came in their Bolero car and abducted her. According to the father of the kidnapped girl, the kidnappers were recognised by his wife, who is from the same village but belongs to a different community. According to him, the abductors had been stalking his daughter for a long time and had planned to convert her to Islam. When the perpetrators failed, he claimed, they kidnapped the girl. According to the victim’s brother, these people had been trying to convert his sister to Islam, marry her, and humiliate his family. Speaking to OpIndia, Ramkola police station in-charge Raju Singh confirmed the incident. He stated that a case had been registered in this regard under section 366 (Kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage, etc) of the IPC and that three people had been taken into custody.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
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. In this subcategory, we would only include cases where the victim was harassed, threatened or coerced to convert. Cases where attempts were made to convert but the victim resisted would be documented in another sub-category. 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, the victim's father and brother testified that the Muslim accused abducted the victim purely with an aim to convert her to Islam. This sort of harassment stems from the animosity against the Hindu faith, which is why this case qualifies as a hate crime against Hindus and has been documented here. Another thread in this case is that of forced conversion where the perpetrator wanted to force the woman to convert to Islam and perform 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. The relationship in such cases is mostly 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. In such cases, 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, there is no evidence to suggest the woman was in a relationship with the accused, however, since the element of forced Nikah is present, this case is being categorised under this section.
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 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 1
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 5 to 10
Perpetrators Gender
both
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