Hindu minor girl groomed, raped and pressured for religious conversion by Muslim man in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh
Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
24 October, 2025
Case Summary
A Muslim man named Amin Mohammad raped a minor Hindu girl and pressured her to convert religions under the false pretext of marriage in Mirzapur's Chunar area in Uttar Pradesh. The minor's mother filed a formal complaint on 25 October 2025, detailing how Mohammad sexually assaulted her daughter while attempting to coerce her into religious conversion. Mirzapur police registered the case under their Mission Shakti initiative, a specialised campaign addressing crimes targeting women. Amin was booked under sections of Bharatiya Nyay Samhita and the ST/ST Act. A police team led by Sub-Inspectors Satendra Kumar Yadav and Abhayraj Pal located and arrested Mohammad at his residence in Sahab Ram Gola, Chunar. The court processed Mohammad through judicial proceedings before remanding him to prison custody.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category in this case is: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. The first subcategory under this is: Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary categories under this is: Rape and sexual assault/harassment, and 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 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. 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 a hate crime. The Mirzapur case warrants documentation as a religious hate crime because it demonstrates a systematic methodology of predatory behaviour targeting Hindu minors specifically for their religious identity. This incident fulfils the primary categorisation of crimes against women through grooming and brainwashing, with the tertiary dimensions of sexual violence and forced conversion of a minor establishing its character as faith-based persecution. The perpetrator’s actions reveal a calculated process: he employed the false pretext of marriage to cultivate trust, subsequently leveraging this manipulated relationship to demand religious conversion while committing sexual assault. This sequence confirms the presence of grooming, where apparent consent is extracted through psychological manipulation rather than offered voluntarily. It is further 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, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. 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. The inclusion of this case in the Hinduphobia Tracker rests upon the demonstrable religious malice permeating the criminal conduct. The violation transcends the sexual assault to encompass an attack upon the victim’s religious identity, seeking to forcibly replace her Hindu heritage with another faith system. Such crimes produce consequences extending beyond the individual victim, generating collective insecurity within Hindu communities regarding the safety of their children. The methodological parallels with other documented cases confirm this is not an isolated incident but represents a recurring pattern of anti-Hindu persecution requiring systematic documentation. 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. The earliest date mentioned is October 25, 2025, when an FIR was filed in the case. Since Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began and not when it was reported, we have considered the date of the incident as October 25, 2025, though the media reported the incident on October 27, 2025.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 1
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 0
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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