Hindu transgender woman harassed and pressured for Islamic conversion by Muslim transgender
Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
28 November, 2025
Case Summary
In Vijaypur, Khaga of Fatehpur district, a Hindu transgender woman named Shreya Kinnar was pressured and harassed for religious conversion by a Muslim transgender named Iqbal Bai. The incident occurred on 29 November 2025, when Shreya Kinnar from the Naraini locality reached the Kishanpur police station area with around a dozen members of her community, stating that she was the Muslim transgender, Iqbal Bai, to accept Islam and live with them. When she refused, Iqbal Bai filed a complaint against Shreya, accusing her of extorting money in another area, in an effort to pressure her for conversion. Shreya stated that she lives in her own area, but because of the frivolous complaint, she was harassed by the police. On 29 November 2025, she and her companions stayed at the police station demanding that the opposing group be summoned in front of police. Station Officer Satyadev Gautam spoke to the Hindu transgender community, assured them that no unjust action would be taken against them, and urged them to maintain calm, after which Shreya and the others dispersed peacefully.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The case has been added as a religiously motivated hate crime under the primary category: Predatory proselytisation. Under this, the sub-category selected 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. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu transgender, Shreya Kinnar, was harassed and pressured to convert to Islam and was threatened in order to force a religious conversion by the Muslim transgender, Iqbal Bai. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard his/her religious faith and embrace another is a direct attack on his/her religious identity and dignity. The pressure was not interpersonal; it was directly linked to her being a Hindu and choosing to remain so. It was coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflected religious animosity because the act was not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making it a religiously motivated crime. The accused filed a fake case precisely to harass and control the Hindu victim. It was a punishment for refusal to abandon her faith. When a person or family was harassed in a targeted manner for practising or defending their religion, and the intention was to induce them to change it, such actions constituted hate-motivated coercion. The hate lay in the rejection and hostility toward the victim’s continued adherence to Hinduism. This behaviour of coercion underscored that the crime was not a random or isolated incident but a deliberate effort to impose religious conversion through intimidation and harassment. The incident was on the lines of a wider pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes where Hindus were specifically targeted or met with hostility for refusal to convert to another faith or abandon Hinduism. Such actions stemmed 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 until they convert. Since such predatory actions stemmed from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case was documented as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when an event occurred or when the victim's ordeal began. It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case specified the exact date when the harassment over conversion began. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we recorded the date based on when the victim reached the police station: 29 November 2025.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 0
- Third Gender 1
- 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
Complaint not filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
third
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