Hindu doctor sexually exploited and pressured to convert to Islam on promise of marriage, abandoned after refusal, attempts suicide
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India 
11 July, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu female resident doctor at King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, had attempted suicide on 21 December 2025 inside the university campus after facing sustained pressure from her colleague, Dr. Ramizuddin Nayak, to convert to Islam and comply with his sexual demands as a condition for marriage. The woman had consumed tablets in her hostel room and was found unconscious. She was immediately taken to the trauma centre at KGMU, where she received medical treatment, was stabilised, and was later discharged. According to the victim, she had first come into contact with Dr. Nayak in July 2025. Over the following months, their professional interaction had developed into a personal relationship. During this period, he had assured her of marriage and had entered into an intimate relationship with her. When the woman later sought to formalise the relationship, Dr. Nayak had made conversion to Islam a mandatory precondition for marriage. Upon her refusal to renounce her Hindu faith, he had ended the relationship. Soon after, the woman had attempted to take her own life. Following the incident, the woman’s parents had submitted complaints through the Chief Minister’s public grievance portal and had approached the State Women’s Commission, seeking action against Dr. Nayak. In response, local police and the KGMU administration had recorded the victim’s statement and had initiated an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the suicide attempt. The university had also ordered an internal inquiry, stating that appropriate action would follow upon completion of the investigation. The case had reached Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on 22 December 2025. The Chief Minister had personally spoken with the victim doctor to understand the matter and had assured her that a fair investigation would be conducted and that no guilty person would be spared. Subsequently, the Chief Minister’s Office had sought a detailed report from KGMU, and a 24-hour security guard had been deployed to ensure the victim’s safety. On 23 December 2025, the university had suspended Dr. Ramizuddin Nayak. The suspension order had barred him from entering the university campus until the investigation was completed, had directed him to appear before the inquiry committee whenever summoned, and had prohibited him from leaving Lucknow during the course of the investigation. The victim had also appeared before KGMU’s Vishakha Committee, constituted under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act. Before the committee, she had stated that Dr. Nayak was forming a group and engaging in religious conversion activities. The committee had been conducting an internal inquiry and was scheduled to submit its report to the Vice-Chancellor of KGMU. During the inquiry, it had emerged that Dr. Nayak had previously married another Hindu woman who had converted to Islam, a matter that had earlier drawn public attention. Authorities were examining whether this prior conduct and any recurring pattern of coercion had a direct bearing on the events that led to the suicide attempt.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been documented under the selected primary category: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Under this, the secondary category selected is: Forced conversion before marriage. 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 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. Another secondary category selected is: Leaves Hindu partner upon refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces pressure/threats/violence to convert and change her religious identity by the non-Hindu man. However, when the Hindu woman refuses to convert, the non-Hindu man ends the relationship or divorces the woman, as the case might be. 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 pressuring the Hindu woman to change her religious identity and upon her refusal, ends the relationship. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force, or threat after she refuses to convert to Islam, are not considered a part of the hate tracker. Another secondary category selected is: Suicide for being forced or pressured to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with a non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces pressure/threats/violence to convert and change her religious identity 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. In some of these cases, unable to bear the pressure/threat/violence being mounted by the non-Hindu partner to convert, the Hindu woman commits suicide. In such cases, often, threats are also given to the family members of the Hindu woman. Since such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim, leading to the woman committing suicide, these cases are categorised as a hate crime. Another secondary category selected is: Brainwashed and groomed. Under this, the tertiary categories selected are: Rape and sexual assault/harassment, family claims grooming, pattern of targeting Hindus. 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. Another secondary category selected is: blackmailed to convert When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman is blackmailed to convert her religion, owing to her religious identity of being a Hindu. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim, however, there could be cases where the relationship is not consensual and the non-Hindu man starts blackmailing a Hindu woman to convert her religion. In these cases, it is often seen that the Hindu woman is blackmailed with intimate photos and/or videos, threats of harm to her or her family, threats of violence etc. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. This case qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime because the harm suffered by the victim was inseparably linked to hostility towards her religious identity and to sustained pressure aimed at forcing her to abandon it. The relationship initially developed with mutual familiarity and trust, and her Hindu identity was known from the beginning. Religion did not present itself as a barrier until the point at which she sought marriage, when conversion was introduced as a compulsory condition. This shift was critical, as it transformed religion from a personal belief into a tool of control. Her faith was treated as something unacceptable that had to be relinquished for the relationship to continue, placing her religious identity at the centre of the conflict. The pressure to convert did not arise from mutual spiritual engagement or personal conviction but was imposed as an ultimatum tied to emotional security, legitimacy, and marriage. This stripped the victim of genuine choice and autonomy. Being forced to choose between retaining one’s religion and securing a promised future constituted coercion, particularly because the demand was one-sided and targeted only her identity. Her Hindu faith became the reason she was denied commitment, stability, and respect, marking a clear instance of discrimination rooted in religion rather than a private disagreement between partners. The sexual exploitation in the relationship further strengthened the religious motivation behind the harm. Intimacy was established on the assurance of marriage, which later became conditional upon conversion. When this condition was revealed, it altered the very basis on which consent had been given. Her emotional trust and physical intimacy were retrospectively tied to a religious demand, making the exploitation inseparable from the pressure to convert. This demonstrated how her body, emotions, and future were used as leverage to compel religious compliance. The abandonment that followed her refusal to convert functioned as punishment for retaining her faith. The relationship ended not because of incompatibility or mutual withdrawal, but solely because she chose not to renounce her religion. This rejection, explicitly rooted in her religious identity, caused severe emotional trauma and directly preceded her suicide attempt. The chain of events established a clear causal link between religious coercion and life-threatening harm. The distress that led her to attempt suicide arose from being targeted, manipulated, and ultimately discarded because of her faith. The broader context reinforced this conclusion. The emergence of similar conversion-related conduct in prior relationships indicated that religion was not incidental but central to the behaviour. Taken together, the coercive demand for conversion, the exploitation of trust and intimacy, the abandonment following refusal, and the resulting attempt on the victim’s life demonstrated that the offence was driven by animosity towards her religious identity. The harm inflicted was not merely personal or emotional; it was an attack on her right to retain her faith without fear, pressure, or devastating consequences. It is thus added to the tracker. Disclaimer: While the suicide attempt occurred on 21 December 2025, the Hinduphobia Tracker has recorded the incident date as 12 July 2025. This date corresponds to the period when the female doctor first came into contact with the male resident and the coercive dynamics, including pressure related to religious conversion and conditional promises of marriage, began to take shape. The tracker documents cases based on the onset of the victim’s experience rather than the date on which its consequences became publicly visible or reported in the media.
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
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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