Hindu minor girl abducted and raped by Muslim youths, forced to convert to Islam

Case Summary
A Hindu minor girl was abducted, gang raped and forced to convert to Islam by two Muslim youths in Banda, UP. The victim's family said that both their daughters had gone to attend a function in the village. The victim's family added that the two youths from another village started blackmailing their daughters. When both the daughters started returning home, the youths forcibly made one of the daughters sit in the car and kidnapped her. They took her to a secluded place where they took turns to rape her the entire night. They also pressured her to convert to Islam. The girl, somehow, managed to escape. She came back home and narrated her ordeal to her family, who in turn filed a police complaint against the accused- Aavish and Mujeed. The duo was arrested under relevant sections including POCSO and sent to jail.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added as a religiously motivated hate crime in the database under the prime category- Predatory proselytisation and within 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. In this subcategory, we would only include cases where the victim was harassed, threatened or coerced to convert. Cases where attempts were made to convert but the victim resisted would be documented in another sub-category. 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 details of this case reveal that the Muslim perpetrator, to alienate the Hindu victim from her professed faith inflicted torture on her. She was abducted and gang-raped for the entire night, all because the perpetrators wanted her to renounce her faith and accept Islam. Since the motivating factor of the crime was the religious identity of the victim and the accused employed violence and intimidation to disenfranchise the victim from it, the case has been included in the database.
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 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0

Case Status
Arrested

Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male