Hindu families lured with inducements and brainwashed to convert to Christianity by missionaries in Haryana
Rohtak, Haryana, India 
6 November, 2025
Case Summary
In the Titoli village of Rohtak district, Haryana, Hindu families were brainwashed and offered inducements for religious conversion by Christian missionaries. According to media reports, the incident took place on 7 November 2025, when four Christian men associated with missionaries entered the village and began preaching Christianity and brainwashing Hindu villagers to convert, while offering money to some residents to abandon Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism). According to villagers, the missionary group lured a Dalit Hindu family with promises of healing their illnesses, securing jobs for their children in convent schools, and providing financial assistance if they embraced Christianity. The missionaries also distributed propaganda materials and attempted to convince the family that all their sorrows would disappear once they converted. When the villagers learned of this, they gathered in protest, confronted the four men, and handed them over to the police. Subsequently, a complaint was filed at Titoli police station, following which the Panchayat delegation, led by local resident Vikas Arya, met the Deputy Superintendent of Police and demanded strict legal action against the accused. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing. The villagers emphasised that Titoli was a village of Arya Samaj followers, a sect of Hinduism, who rejected any attempt to disrupt their religious and social harmony. They stated that conversion activities conducted under the guise of “healing ceremonies” were a deliberate attempt to weaken Hindu society and spread deceit among vulnerable families. Vikas Arya also told the authorities that these conversion drives were targeting not only poor families but also runaway youths, who were being trapped into conversions and marriages designed to detach them from their ancestral faith. However, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Ravi Khundiya attempted to shift blame onto the Hindu victims by claiming that the incident involved a religious ceremony at a private home in Titoli, which Christian individuals visited and were subsequently assaulted by the villagers.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of: Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the first subcategory selected is: Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. The second subcategory selected is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, and the tertiary category selected is- Pattern of targeting Hindus. 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 Hindu villagers in Titoli village, Rohtak district, were influenced and offered inducements for religious conversion by four Christian perpetrators. The accused attempted to lure Hindu residents, including a Dalit family, to convert to Christianity by offering money, promises of healing from illnesses, assurances of employment, and education for their children in convent schools. Firstly, offering such inducements or making false healing promises, especially when directed at vulnerable and economically weaker individuals, is not an act of kindness or charity. It is a calculated effort to exploit their vulnerability because of their religious identity. By providing inducements in exchange for conversion, the accused were effectively blackmailing those who might have been desperate for assistance or hope. Such instances are seen in many cases where members of Christian missionary groups target socially and economically vulnerable Hindus to further their agenda of religious conversions. This form of coercion strips people of their agency and dignity and results in coerced conversions. Secondly, propaganda material was also distributed by Christian missionaries in an effort to brainwash the Hindu victims into conversion. Using the scriptures, literature or propaganda materials of one faith to deliberately target and manipulate members of another, with the clear intention of religious conversion, represents a direct attack on the Hindu faith. Such actions are designed to violate and undermine the beliefs of Hindu victims and are clear indicators of religious hostility towards Hindus and their religious identity. When Christian religious material is used to exploit trust, sow doubt, and misrepresent the beliefs of Hindus to coerce conversion, particularly in a systematic manner, it constitutes a religiously motivated offence. The nature of the conversion efforts and the wider impact on the Hindu community all indicate a targeted action against Hindus as a collectivity. When individuals or groups focus their efforts on converting members of a particular religion, in this case, Hindus, then it demonstrates a fundamental disregard for the Hindu faith. Conversion, especially when not based on personal conviction but rather on external persuasion or pressure, is not simply about sharing a different belief system. It is an attempt to undermine the values, traditions, and identity of the Hindu community. The Christian faith, by its very theological foundations, places a strong emphasis on proselytisation. In pursuit of conversion objectives, Christian evangelists and catholics often employ unethical means, ranging from psychological pressure and misinformation to inducements such as money or jobs. These are not random or isolated incidents, but premeditated efforts to undermine the Hindu faith, persuade Hindus to discard their own faith, and convert to Christianity. Such acts were deeply rooted in religious animosity towards Hindu victims and their faith, amounting to a religiously motivated offence. Another point to address is that the police attempted to deny the religious angle to the crime, claiming that it was the villagers who assaulted some Christian individuals. In such cases, where the motive behind the crime is obvious but not explicitly mentioned, the police deny that the crime committed was in any way motivated by a religious bias or say that there was ‘no communal angle’ to the crime. Several factors are generally at play here. Many a time, the police downplay incidents of low-level communal crime because it is their jurisdiction that comes under question. The police also often say that there was ‘no communal angle’ to a crime when there was one because they wish to ensure that, owing to the crime already committed, there is no further flare-up in the area. However, a police statement cannot be enough to determine whether there is a communal angle present in the crime that has been committed. In fact, to determine whether the crime is communal in nature or not, we need to give emphasis to the ground realities. For example, in the case of Rinku Sharma, the Bajrang Dal activist who was mercilessly stabbed in his house in front of his family members in Delhi’s Mangolpuri area in the year 2021, the leftist media and the leftist ecosystem had tried to peddle that there was no communal angle to the crime. Even the police denied that the crime was communal in nature. However, OpIndia spoke to several people who are on the ground with the family of Rinku Sharma, and we were told that the communal tension in the area is palpable. The family of Rinku Sharma has said that the Muslims of the area held a grudge against Rinku ever since he celebrated the Ram Mandir verdict. Like the case of Rinku Sharma, those cases where even if the police have denied a communal angle, the ground reality, like the victim, the victim’s family or the relatives' testimonies, make it clear that there was an obvious religious bias that led to the crime, will be documented in this tracker. Going by the same logic, in this case, multiple Hindu villagers stated that missionaries were conducting illegal conversion activities. This clearly showcases religious animosity as the motivating factor behind the crime. Therefore, this case is being added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker.
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
unknown
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