Hindu girl abducted, tortured and gang-raped for religious conversion by four Muslim perpetrators; victim forced to wear burqa
Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India 
17 November, 2024
Case Summary
In the Khurja area of Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was targeted, abducted, held captive and coerced into religious conversion by four Muslim men, identified as Beenu, Bunty, Imran and Asif. According to the victim, who had been working in a private company, she initially came into contact with one of the accused, who contacted her through Instagram. This accused gradually introduced the victim to other perpetrators. They kidnapped the victim, drugged her and held her hostage for 48 days at the house of one of the accused, Bunty. During captivity, she was subjected to brutal torture and physical assault, while the perpetrators gang-raped her. They also pressured her to convert to Islam and forced her to wear a burqa. The victim eventually escaped and approached the police, but her ordeal did not end. She filed a complaint with the police, describing her ordeal; however, the police officer, identified as Sub-Inspector Ikram Ali, who was handling her case, refused to take any action, nor was her medical examination conducted. Meanwhile, her husband had filed a missing persons complaint while she was in captivity. When the victim contacted her husband, he went to the police station and questioned SI Ikram Ali as to why he had not been contacted, since he had also filed a complaint, and the victim was in the police station. Enraged by this questioning, SI Ikram Ali assaulted the victim's husband and verbally abused him, claiming that she had gone on her own and was now defaming the Muslim community by saying conversion. SI Ikram Ali rhetorically mocked, saying, “ek burqa pehna diya to dharm change kr diya iska” (Just because they made her wear a burqa, does that mean her religion is changed). SI Ikram Ali, along with one other police officer, subjected the victim and her husband to sustained harassment and abuse. They demanded a bribe to arrest the accused and also sexually exploited the victim. When she tried to approach the senior police officer, she was blocked and threatened with dire consequences and warned that her husband would be framed in a false case. She eventually managed to reach the SSP office with an application. Following her complaint at the Integrated Grievance Redressal System, SI Ikram Ali and his accomplice were suspended, though senior officers said that she had changed her statements multiple times and was unwilling to file a formal written complaint naming the policemen, complicating departmental action. As of the date of writing this report, the investigation was ongoing.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of: Predatory proselytisation. Within it, 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. 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 other sub-category selected here - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, with the tertiary category being - Rape and sexual assault/harrasment. 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 attempt 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 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. This case has been added to the tracker because a Hindu woman was abducted, held captive and coerced into religious conversion by four Muslim perpetrators, identified as Beenu, Bunty, Imran and Asif. Firstly, pressuring a Hindu individual to discard her religious faith and embrace another is a direct attack on her religious identity and dignity. It 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 not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making it a religiously motivated crime. Secondly, the Muslim perpetrators abducted her, kept her confined and gang-raped her while subjecting her to sustained physical torture. In such cases, sexual violence and physical torture served a dual purpose: physical subjugation and religious humiliation. The intention was to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she could be converted. This was not random violence; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. Thirdly, she was also forced to wear a burqa by the perpetrators. The imposition of the burqa on the Hindu victim added another layer to this erasure of her Hindu identity. By forcing her to wear a burqa, the Muslim perpetrators attempted to strip her of her Hindu faith and impose foreign religious practices upon her. It was not merely about clothing; it symbolised the effort to overwrite her Hindu identity and forcibly assimilate her into practices of the Islamic faith. Such actions 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. Such acts were not merely personal crimes; they were rooted in a desire to dominate and erase the religious identity of the victim. 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: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that the incident occurred in November 2024. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date—18 November 2024—as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 18 November 2025, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported. Disclaimer: This incident has been documented as two separate cases in the tracker. The present entry covers only the religious conversion aspect involving the four Muslim perpetrators who abducted, tortured and assaulted the Hindu victim for religious conversion. A separate case covers the assault, intimidation and misconduct committed by Sub-Inspector Ikram Ali, which were also religiously motivated. For this reason, the victim count has also been kept at one, representing the Hindu woman and the perpetrator count includes the four Muslim men, identified as Beenu, Bunty, Imran and Asif, who coerced the victim into religious conversion.
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
Case sub-judice
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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