Hindu women lured, taken away, converted and married by a Muslim man in Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh
Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
14 December, 2025
Case Summary
In the Hamirpur district in Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was lured and taken away by a Muslim man identified as Gullu. The incident occurred in August 2025, within the jurisdiction of the Majhghan police station area, where a case was registered, and an investigation was initiated. The police inquiry established that after being taken away, the Hindu woman’s religious identity was changed. The investigation further revealed that a nikah ceremony was conducted in the Belatal (Jaitpur) area of Mahoba district. The marriage was arranged and solemnised by a cleric identified as Jabbar, also known as Hafiz or Maulvi, who played a direct role in facilitating the religious marriage following the conversion. As the probe progressed, the police arrested Gullu and booked him under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, 2021. Subsequent evidence brought to light the role of the cleric in arranging the nikah, leading to his arrest. He was produced before the court and sent to judicial custody. The investigation continued to examine the involvement of other individuals connected to the incident.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been included in two primary categories of hate crime. The first one being: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes; under which, the first secondary category selected is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. 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. The second secondary category selected is: Forced conversion before marriage; under which, the chosen tertiary category is: forced to do nikhah. 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. 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, 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. 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, 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. The incident qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime because the actions taken against the Hindu woman were structured around her religious identity and culminated in the erasure of that identity through coercive means. The sequence of events showed that the situation inflicted on her was not incidental but directly linked to changing her faith, which placed religion at the centre of the offence rather than as a peripheral factor. The woman was taken away and subsequently subjected to a change in religious identity, followed by a marriage conducted according to a different religious rite. The conversion was not an independent or incidental act but was closely tied to the marriage itself, indicating that altering her religious identity was a necessary step in legitimising the union. This demonstrated intent to interfere with and override her existing religious identity rather than respect it. The involvement of a cleric in arranging and solemnising the marriage after the conversion further reinforced the religious nature of the offence. His role went beyond a private relationship and brought in institutional religious authority to formalise the conversion and marriage, embedding religious coercion into the act. Taken together, the targeting of a Hindu woman, the deliberate change of her religious identity, and the facilitation of a religious marriage following that change established that religion was the basis on which the offence was carried out. The crime therefore met the criteria of being religiously motivated, as it involved discrimination, coercion and harm directed specifically at the victim because of her religious identity. Thus, it is added to the 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 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 1
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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