Minor Hindu boy brainwashed and groomed for conversion through repeated Christian healing meetings
Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
1 November, 2025
Case Summary
A minor Hindu boy was targeted for religious conversion in the Bhitora block of Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh. His mother, from Jamarawan village, stated in her police complaint that a man named Ramkishore from Madaihaar village had been influencing and brainwashing her mentally vulnerable son for almost one year. She stated that this man was linked with Christian missionary networks and was persuading her son to abandon Hindu Dharma and adopt Christianity. The mother further stated that this was not a one-time attempt. Under the influence of Ramkishore, her son had started organising “healing prayer meetings” twice a month inside their house. More than twenty-four such meetings took place in one year. These meetings were attended by people from multiple nearby villages such as Jamarawan, Nirahua, Bhagwa and Pura Meetan. The mother described Ramkishore as someone who runs anti-Hindu activities and uses different organisations to spread conversion. The matter became public on 02 November 2025 when another healing prayer meeting was held in Jamarawan. The mother raised an objection during the gathering and accused Ramkishore of trying to convert her minor son. Hindu organisation Bajrang Dal activists reached the location, opposed the illegal conversion activity and filed a written complaint with the police. Local police also reached the spot and started the investigation. Station House Officer Alok Kumar Pandey confirmed that they had received the woman’s complaint and said further action would be taken after an inquiry.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category in this case is: Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory under this is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary category under this is: Conversion of minor and 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 proselytisation, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. Another subcategory under this 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. This case has been documented in the Hinduphobia Tracker because it represents a deliberate attempt to dismantle the Hindu identity of a minor through grooming and religious manipulation. The complaint given by the Hindu mother specifically shows that this was not a casual interaction but a year-long systematic effort to influence the mental framework of a vulnerable Hindu child and to detach him from Hindu Dharma. The fact that more than twenty-four healing meetings took place inside the Hindu family home shows that a fully structured indoctrination ecosystem had already been installed. These meetings were attended by people from multiple villages, which means these sessions were not harmless prayer gatherings. They functioned as recruitment and consolidation spaces. The objective was to detach Hindus from their inherited dharmic identity and replace it with a contrasting religious allegiance. This case falls precisely under the category of Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. It fits the tertiary category Conversion of minor. These classifications exist because subtle conversion offences are often more dangerous than direct threats. They are systematic, repeated, and designed to create disaffection in the mind of the Hindu victim. In most such cases, the Hindu does not even realise the transformation until the indoctrination is complete. The perpetrator used a minor as an entry point. This is critical. Minors have no capacity to understand the consequences of abandoning their religious identity. They cannot give informed or independent consent regarding conversion. In this case, the vulnerability was compounded because the minor was mentally weak. This allowed the conversion operator to exploit trust and influence with almost no resistance and create dependence based on healing, hope and emotional manipulation. It is further important to note that this is not a religious discussion or free debate. This was a targeted attempt to make a Hindu child abandon his Hindu identity through psychological influence and repetitive messaging. This is religious hatred expressed in slow motion. This is why this case is a hate crime. This incident is documented as Hinduphobia because the act is rooted in animosity towards the Hindu faith. The perpetrator directly sought to replace the victim’s Hindu identity and used the child’s vulnerability as a strategic advantage to achieve that goal. Disclaimer: The date of the incident has been recorded as 2 November 2025 for documentation purposes, although the grooming and conversion attempts had been ongoing for nearly one year prior.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 0
- 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
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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