Minor Hindu girl lured into relationship, threatened for religious conversion by Muslim man pretending to be Hindu
North East Delhi, Delhi, India 
20 October, 2024
Case Summary
A 17-year-old minor Hindu girl who lives with her family in Gokulpuri, Delhi, was lured into a relationship by a Muslim man pretending to be Hindu. In 2024, she received a friend request on Instagram from an account under the name Monu Yadav. She accepted it. They started chatting, and the messages were friendly at first. A month later, the person told her his real name was Aamir and that he wanted to marry her through nikah. He asked her to wear a burqa, read the Quran, and convert to Islam. When she refused and blocked him, he contacted her from different phone numbers. He found out her home address and began coming to her house. He knocked on the gate repeatedly and later forced his way inside. One day, when her mother was not home, he entered the house and tried to assault her. She shouted, and he left when neighbours approached. She then called 112. Police arrived, took Aamir into custody after the family caught him, but released him shortly afterwards. She filed a complaint at the Gokulpuri police station, but no action was taken. He continued to pressure her to convert and threatened to throw acid on her face if she refused. On 21st October 2025, Aamir returned to her house. He grabbed her hand and tried to pull her outside toward a car where his friends were waiting. Her father came home at that moment, intervened, and stopped the abduction. The family handed Aamir to the police again, but he was released soon after. The victim and her father repeatedly sought help from the police, but no case under the POCSO Act was registered despite her being a minor and facing attempted sexual assault, abduction, and religious coercion. No protection was provided to the family.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the first primary category- Crimes against women in relationships or other sexual crimes. Within this, the first subcategory selected is: Man pretends to be Hindu. The tertiary category selected is: Name Changed. When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by malicious intentions. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc), or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. The second sub-category selected here is - Brainwashed and/or groomed, with the tertiary categories being - Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of minor. 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 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. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered hate crimes. The second primary category selected here is: Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the first sub-category selected here 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 second sub-category selected here is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, with the tertiary categories being: Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of minor. 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 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 proselytisation, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. This case has been added to the tracker because a minor Hindu girl was lured into a relationship and pressured for religious conversion by a Muslim man who was pretending to be Hindu. The accused trapped her in a love affair and started pressuring her to convert to Islam. The religious motive of the crime is evident from the fact that the Muslim perpetrator hid his true identity to trap the Hindu victim. This itself is a clear manifestation of bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion. By concealing his true identity, he exploited her trust, targeting her under false pretences. This indicates a premeditated intent to manipulate her based on her religious background. In cases like these, the tactic of adopting a false Hindu identity to manipulate and "ensnare" a Hindu individual is not just an act of personal betrayal but can also be interpreted as an expression of disdain or disregard for Hinduism and its customs that reflects a deeper animosity towards Hindus and their beliefs, and this is why this case has been added here. It is important to note here that the victim was a minor, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They may not have the ability to fully understand the implications of converting to another religion or consenting to a relationship or elopement, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. Additionally, any supposed consent given in such cases is already considered invalid under the POCSO Act. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religious conversion, it is a blatant act of religious hate, which is why it has been documented here in the hate tracker. Such acts are not merely criminal in nature; they are ideologically charged, revealing religious prejudice and a calculated intent to alter the religious identity of a minor without her volition. Secondly, the victim was threatened with an acid attack and pressured to convert to Islam. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard her faith is not a matter of personal choice; it is coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim’s Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act is aimed at erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making this a religiously motivated crime. Thirdly, the victim was sexually harassed, and an attempt was made to abduct her in an effort to isolate her from her social circle and her cultural identity. The victim was constantly hounded by the Muslim man through texts and physical visits and was ultimately attacked in her own house to imply that she wasn't safe anywhere, and the only option was to give in to the accused's demands. Such actions serve a dual purpose: mental subjugation and religious humiliation. The intention behind this harassment was to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she could be converted through persistent coercion. This was not random violence; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. Police inaction in this case emboldened the accused to act with impunity, further traumatising the victim and adding to her misery. Such actions stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic religions believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. Therefore, religious conversions, even of minors, are often seen as a badge of honour, totally disregarding the methods used to achieve it. 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. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when an event occurred or when the victim's ordeal began. It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case has specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, only mentioning that the communication began one year before the abduction attempt. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date as one year before the attempt to abduct the victim was made as 21 October 2024.
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
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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