Attempt to convert Hindus to Christianity through event claiming conversion cures cancer
Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, India 
11 March, 2025
Case Summary
In Sureshiya, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, an event was organised to convert Hindus to Christianity by making false promises such as curing cancer through conversion. Hindu organisations, including the Bajrang Dal, opposed the gathering, stating that Christian missionaries use such events to lure and coerce Hindus into abandoning their faith. According to Bajrang Dal officials, these gatherings target innocent people by spreading superstition and making promises of miraculous healings after conversion. Promotion for the event circulated on social media, featuring a story of a teacher who purportedly recovered from cancer after converting to Christianity. Bajrang Dal denounced this as deceptive propaganda aimed at drawing people to the event and facilitating their conversion.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of - Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category 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 sub-category selected is: - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, with the tertiary category being: - 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 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 this case, the event’s central pitch—offering miraculous cures for cancer through conversion—was a calculated inducement targeting Hindus. This tactic exploits human vulnerability, especially health-related distress, by presenting conversion as the pathway to healing. The exploitation is not neutral; it specifically seeks to separate Hindus from their faith, replacing it with allegiance to another religion. The religious identity of the target is the very reason for the inducement, making it a religiously motivated act rather than a generic health scam. This is predatory because it manipulates personal hardship to achieve a religious conversion objective, thereby constituting a hate crime against Hindus. The promotional narrative—highlighting a teacher’s alleged cancer recovery after conversion—fits the pattern of subtle indoctrination aimed at undermining confidence in Hindu beliefs and fostering trust in another faith as the “true” path. Such messaging operates on repetition, trust-building, and the strategic use of emotional triggers to weaken attachment to one’s own religion. This is not aimed at the general public but specifically at Hindus, as it seeks to create disaffection towards Hinduism while presenting Christianity as the superior alternative. By systematically targeting Hindus through emotionally manipulative propaganda, the perpetrators demonstrate religious malice, placing this case squarely within the framework of a religiously motivated hate crime.
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