Minor Hindu girl abducted, taken to dargah, sexually assaulted and forcibly converted by Muslim man from Muzaffarnagar
Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 
4 December, 2025
Case Summary
In Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, a minor Hindu girl from the Dalit community was abducted, raped, and forcibly converted to Islam by a Muslim man named Mudassir. The victim was taken to Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Jaipur and was made to recite the Kalma, the Islamic declaration of faith, and also offer Namaz, the Islamic prayers performed five times a day. The incident came to light when the victim's father, Sachin, a resident of Mimalana village, filed a complaint on 6 December 2025, stating that his 14-year-old daughter had been lured and abducted by a local Muslim man, Mudassir, the son of Shamshad. Sachin ran a clinic on the main road, and the family home was located at the back, meaning the girl typically stayed at home. The girl suddenly went missing on 6 December 2025 in the afternoon. She was a Class 11 student at Chhotu Ram Inter College. She left home on 5 December 2025 to go to college, but did not return. She was abducted by the Muslim accused and taken to Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Jaipur, where she was raped, forced to recite the Kalma and Namaz, and forcibly converted to Islam. The victim's name was changed, and she was given a new Muslim name, Hayat. During this time, the accused offered to marry her and raped her again. Following this, the victim's family registered a complaint at the Kotwali Nagar police station. In this case, sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act), the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (SC/ST Act), and the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act were invoked. Swami Yashveer, a Hindu leader and activist, along with other activists from Hindu organisations, continuously protested against the police administration, demanding the release of the girl, and pressure was maintained. Due to the involvement of two communities, the police adopted extra precautions in handling the case. Subsequently, the accused, Mudassir, was arrested, and the victim was safely returned to her family. Further legal proceedings followed.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected in this case is- Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory 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. The other subcategory selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary categories selected are- 'Conversion of minor', 'Rape and sexual assault/harassment', and 'Family claims grooming'. 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. In this case, the Muslim accused, Mudassir, abducted the minor Hindu girl by luring and abducting her, followed by her conversion to Islam. This targeted act, preying on a Hindu girl's religious identity to strip her of her faith through abduction, sexual violence, and forced religious change, constitutes a clear instance of anti-Hindu hate crime, driven by animosity towards Hinduism. It is crucial to note that the victim was a minor, meaning any element of consent or genuine change of conscience was absent from the outset. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, remain particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion, lacking the ability to fully understand the lifelong implications of converting to another religion. The Muslim perpetrator deliberately targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the minor Hindu girl. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion, manipulation, and force to achieve religious conversion, it represents a blatant act of religiously motivated hate crime against the victim due to her Hindu identity. The Muslim perpetrator abducted her from her family, from the comfort and safety of her home, isolated her, and then converted her to Islam, making this a clear instance of religiously motivated crime. Conversion achieved not through willful conviction but through external persuasion, pressure, and force amounts to a religiously motivated crime. This demonstrates that the accused sought to strip the Hindu victim of her Hindu faith, revealing hatred for Hinduism in general. Hence, this constitutes a clear act of hate crime motivated by religious animosity. The accused's deliberate actions, forcing the minor Hindu victim to recite the Kalma (Islamic declaration of faith), perform Namaz (five daily Islamic prayers), and adopt the Muslim name Hayat, reveal deep-seated religious animosity aimed at completely erasing her Hindu identity. These acts systematically stripped her of her Hindu roots: the Kalma symbolises total submission to Islam, Namaz enforces Islamic ritual discipline, and renaming her Hayat buried her original Hindu name and heritage forever. By imposing these core Islamic customs and identity markers on a vulnerable Dalit Hindu girl against her will, the perpetrator sought to kill her Hindu soul and rebirth her as a Muslim, demonstrating calculated hatred for Hinduism. This cultural annihilation through forced religious imposition constitutes a textbook case of religiously motivated hate crime targeting the victim's Hindu faith. It is also crucial to recognise that the accused raped the victim. This was not a random act of sexual exploitation; it constituted a targeted assault driven by religious bias, aimed at singling out and violating a Hindu girl because of her religious identity. Such acts of exploitation deliberately break the victim's spirit and humiliate her due to her Hindu identity, rendering her totally submissive to the accused's demands and showcasing a religiously motivated hate crime. Additionally, since the victim was a minor who was forcibly converted, this showcases deep hatred for Hinduism and the Hindu community. Minors represent the most vulnerable section of the Hindu community, and targeting them creates paranoia and panic among the majority Hindu population, instilling the fear that their children could be abducted and forcibly converted at any time. This psychological terror directed at Hindu families renders it a clear instance of religiously motivated crime. Such instances of predatory proselytisation stem from deep-seated religious animosity towards the Hindu faith, as Abrahamic faiths like Islam view non-adherents as targets for dehumanisation until conversion. This doctrinal animosity towards Hindus and their faith makes this a clear instance of a religiously motivated crime. Therefore, this case has been 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 1
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 0
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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