Hindu students face religious intrusion as lecturer preaches Christianity in Andhra Pradesh college
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India 
12 December, 2025
Case Summary
Hindu students of Sri Venkateshwara Government Polytechnic College in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, recorded a video wherein a Christian lecturer was seen delivering sermons about Jesus Christ during an ongoing class. In a video widely circulated on the internet, a lecturer, Madhavi, was seen writing Telugu text on the blackboard where she wrote, “Amma–Nanna Yesu rabhu (Mother and Father are Jesus Christ)” and “Akka–Anna Yesu Christu (Sister and Brother are Jesus Christ). This act of equating Jesus with family while addressing Hindu students was recorded by a student present in the class and was circulated online. The video of this incident went viral and led to protests by Hindu groups seeking to safeguard Hindu students from conversion tactics. These groups demanded that disciplinary action be initiated against the lecturer and that she be suspended for attempting to influence impressionable Hindu youth towards Christianity and for failing to maintain a clear boundary between personal religious beliefs and professional conduct.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category of the crime is Predatory Proselytisation. The secondary category under it is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation, or subtle indoctrination. Religious brainwashing essentially means the often subtle and forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up their religious beliefs to accept contrasting,g 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,nt 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 the 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 the present case, Hindu students were subjected to Christian religious messaging within a classroom setting by a faculty member occupying a position of authority. Educational spaces are environments where students are required to engage with and internalise information imparted by educators. Introducing religious content invoking Jesus Christ as a familiar figure during an academic lecture constitutes a deliberate act of religious influence. Since the students present were Hindus and the messaging promoted a contrasting faith, the act aligns with predatory proselytisation, where religious influence is exercised in a controlled setting to affect belief systems. This case constitutes a religiously motivated hate crime, as Hindu students were systematically targeted with the motive to brainwash them and draw them closer to an alien religion. The college where the lecturer was teaching is a part of the Tirumali Technical Institution and is revered because of its proximity to the Tirumali Temple, a highly revered Hindu Temple. The SVPC college is run by the government to facilitate students in learning about technical education at a low cost. However, these facilities are misused by determined faculty who deliberately target Hindu students to teach them about a religion that is not a part of their culture. These acts form part of an indirect method designed to leave an impression upon the young minds and to lure them to convert to Christianity. This is not an isolated incident; rather, it is part of a broader trend in which Christian missionaries systematically target vulnerable Hindu populations for religious conversion. Several such instances involve inducements and the misuse of welfare schemes, exploiting the socio-economic vulnerabilities of Hindus to erode their traditional faith and identity. The illegal appropriation of public land to establish a church further aggravates the sense of injustice, as it is an affront to the collective sentiments of the Hindu community. These instances highlight that such cases are not isolated, but rather a premeditated effort to convert Hindus to Christianity, making this a case of religiously motivated crime against socially and economically vulnerable Hindus. The deliberate targeting of Hindus for conversion, coupled with the illegal establishment of religious infrastructure, signals a systematic attempt to alter the religious demographic of the area and strip Hindus of their faith. These instances of targeted proselytisation activities stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime and included in the hate crime database. The incident occurred in Tirupati, a region of significant Hindu religious importance, and involved Hindu students being exposed to Christian religious messaging within an educational institution. The emergence of protests and formal objections by Hindu organisations reflects community recognition of recurring attempts to introduce religious influence in spaces attended predominantly by Hindus. This establishes the applicability of the pattern-based targeting category. Disclaimer: Media reports do not specify the exact date when the incident happened or when the video was recorded. Therefore, for documentation purposes, 13th December 2025 is being taken as the indicative date of the incident, the original date when the case was reported in the media. Hinduphobia Tracker records the date when the victim’s ordeal begins rather than the date when it is reported in the media, but in the present case,e since the date is not mentioned, the date reported in the media is considered.
Case Status
Unknown
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
female
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