Hindu woman befriended, sexually exploited, pressured to undergo nikah and wear hijab by Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 
3 December, 2025
Case Summary
In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was befriended by a Muslim man named Wali Mohammad Qureshi. The accused deceitfully took obscene videos of her, blackmailed her, and sexually exploited her. Following this, he began forcing her to wear a hijab, convert to Islam and marry him. This incident came to light when the Metropolitan Police arrested Wali Mohammad Qureshi, a meat trader from Siyana, Bulandshahr. The accused was apprehended from Sarita Vihar in Delhi. The Hinduphobia Tracker contacted the police regarding this case, and they confirmed the victim is a Hindu woman. According to Metropolitan Inspector Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, the victim stated that she had contacted Wali Mohammad a few years ago regarding investing money in the stock market. During their conversation, he deceived her and obtained her home address. He then travelled to Lucknow and extorted six lakh rupees from her. She further stated that the accused befriended her and began pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry him (Nikah). He deceitfully recorded an obscene video of her and, under duress, took her to several hotels where he sexually exploited her. He threatened to make the video public if she complained to the Secretariat. He also threatened to kill the victim's family. The victim said Wali Mohammad prevented her from meeting her sisters. He pressured her to convert to Islam and wear a hijab when leaving the house. He threatened her when she refused. Troubled by this, on 4th December 2025, the victim filed a complaint at the Metropolitan Police Station. The inspector said the investigation revealed the accused was living in Delhi and was involved in the meat trading business. He was arrested on 7th December 2025 from Aali village in Sarita Vihar.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected in this case is- Crimes against women in relationships or other sexual crimes. The subcategory selected is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary category selected is- 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. The other subcategory selected is- Forced conversion before marriage. The tertiary categories selected are- Forced to do Nikah and Forced to wear Hijab. 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 the 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 other subcategory selected is- Assault or threat upon refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. This case is a clear instance of an anti-Hindu hate crime, as the Muslim perpetrator initially befriended the Hindu victim under the false pretence of assisting her with investing money in the stock market. He exploited this trust to financially manipulate her, extorting a significant sum. Subsequently, he escalated his abuse by sexually exploiting her, coercing her into sexual relations through the threat of releasing obscene videos he had deceitfully recorded. He further intensified his control by threatening to kill her and her family unless she converted to Islam and agreed to marry him. The sexual exploitation here was not only a personal violation but also clearly motivated by religious animosity. In such instances, the sexual abuse of a Hindu woman serves a dual, cruel purpose: to exploit her physically and to humiliate her Hindu identity, forcing submission to the accused’s demands. This deliberate targeting based on her religious identity renders the offence a distinct example of religiously motivated and profiled sexual violence against Hindu women. The victim was also pressured to convert to Islam and compelled to wear the hijab. This forced conversion and insistence on adopting Islamic symbols underscore the religious motivation behind the crime. It is evident that the accused befriended the victim with the specific intent to strip her of her Hindu faith and impose an Islamic identity upon her. This calculated act reveals deep-seated animosity toward her religion and a deliberate effort to erase her Hindu identity. The pressure to enter into a nikah, Islamic marriage, alongside the coerced wearing of the hijab, forms part of a pattern aimed at enforcing a total religious conversion. The hijab, in particular, served as a symbolic and visible marker of this enforced identity change, further accentuating the religiously motivated nature of the crime. Acts of forced conversions are a violation of the victim's religious autonomy and beliefs, making it a clear example of a religiously motivated crime. When the victim resisted the forced conversion and refused to wear the hijab, she faced severe threats, including threats to her own life and that of her family. These threats illustrate the lengths to which the accused was willing to go to break her resistance and strip her of her Hindu faith. The violent intimidation to compel religious conformity and impose Islamic lifestyle practices such as wearing the hijab highlights the crime’s underlying religious hatred. This clearly qualifies the case as a hate crime motivated by religious animosity. Given that this case meets multiple criteria of a religiously motivated offence—sexual exploitation, forced conversion, threats, and coercion—it is being recorded in the hate crime database maintained by the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the crime occurs or when the victim’s ordeal begins, rather than the date when the case is reported by the media. In this case, media reports have not specified the exact date on which the victim’s ordeal began; they only mention that the victim met the accused a few years ago without providing a specific year or month. The reports do, however, provide one definitive date: 4th December 2025, when the victim filed a police complaint at the Metropolitan Police Station. Therefore, for the purpose of documenting this crime, the earliest available date—4th December 2025—is recorded as the indicative date of the incident.
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
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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