Hindu woman discovers her husband and in-laws are Christian, gets chained, beaten, separated from her infant when she resists conversion

Case Summary
In Sirohi, Rajasthan, a Hindu woman was subjected to severe torture by her in-laws for refusing to convert to Christianity. According to a complaint lodged on December 2, 2024, the woman was chained, beaten, and separated from her one-month-old son, leaving her mentally and physically impaired. The incident occurred in Dhanera village under the Anadra police station. The victim's father, Jagsi Ram, stated that his daughter married Deeparam a year prior. Initially, the marriage seemed stable, but problems arose when the victim discovered her husband was promoting Christianity on social media and pressuring her to convert. When she refused, citing her Hindu faith, the abuse began. The complaint said that Deeparam, along with his brother Shankar, Umaram, and sisters-in-law Phuli Devi and Manju, who had converted to Christianity, subjected the woman to relentless abuse. Despite the torture, she continued to resist conversion. The abuse escalated, and the woman was chained and isolated from her child. Her parents intervened upon learning of the abuse, rescuing her from the in-laws' house and taking her home. They later filed a police complaint, reporting that the victim's condition had deteriorated significantly due to the torture. Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar Beniwal confirmed the investigation was underway.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the primary category 'Crimes against women in relationship and other sexual crimes' under the sub-category '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 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. In this case, after the woman discovered the identity of her husband and her in-laws, she was pressured to abandon her professed faith and convert to Christianity. When she resisted being disenfranchised from her faith and adopting Christianity, she was chained and assaulted by her husband and his family. The assault was so egregious, that the woman was left physically and mentally impaired. There appears to be a considerable amount of deceit to trap the woman in this case, since the details mention how the woman found out only later the the family had converted to Christianity. Further, the assault to force her convert to Christianity upon her refusal indicates beyond doubt that the crime was motivated by religious extremism and hostility towards the victim's professed faith. For that reason, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime.
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
Complaint filed

Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 5 to 10
Perpetrators Gender
both