Hindu family harassed and assaulted for refusing to convert by Christian extremists in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh
Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
13 November, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu man named Rajkumar Rajbhar, a resident of Newadhia, Jaunpur, stated that he and his family had been pressured by certain individuals in his village to convert to Christianity, despite his repeated statements that he was born Hindu and wished to remain so. The pressure escalated into violence when his family refused, resulting in one member being injured in an assault at their home. According to him, earlier threats had also been made, but the family had stayed silent until the situation worsened. He explained that although he had previously approached the Newadhia police station, he had not seen any effective action. Feeling unsafe and fearing further harm, he went to the District Magistrate’s office on 14th November 2025, to request protection and legal intervention. Rajkumar expressed concern that without timely support, his family could face danger. The district administration acknowledged the complaint. Officials reported that instructions were given to the police to take strict action, and the District Magistrate assured him that his family would receive necessary security and that legal procedures would follow.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The case has been added as a religiously motivated hate crime under the first prime category: Predatory proselytisation. Under this, 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 second prime category selected is: Attack not resulting in death. Under this, the sub-category selected is: Attacked for refusal to convert. When there is pressure, threat or coercion employed upon the Hindu victim to convert to a different religion, in several cases, the victim refuses to succumb to the pressure/threats. Once the victim refuses, the perpetrator proceeds to attack/assault the victim owing to his/her refusal to convert. In such cases, the pressure/threat/intimidation/coercion/violence itself is driven by animosity towards the victim’s Hindu faith. The violence, then, is another hate crime driven by the victim’s refusal to abandon his professed faith, Hinduism, and convert to the religion of a non-Hindu perpetrator. Since the victim’s faith is at the heart of the pressure to convert and the ensuing violence towards the victim, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. In this case, a Hindu family was subjected to persistent harassment and intimidation for conversion by some Christian extremists. The pressure was not interpersonal; it was directly linked to their being Hindu and choosing to remain so. The threats, harassment, and psychological intimidation were not aimed at gaining material benefit, but rather at punishing them for refusal to abandon their faith. When a person or family is harassed in a targeted manner for practising or defending their religion, and the intention is to induce them to change it, such actions constitute hate-motivated coercion. The hate lies in the rejection and hostility toward the victim’s continued adherence to Hinduism. When the Hindu family didn't give in to the demands of conversion, the perpetrators forcefully entered their house and physically assaulted one of the members. This sustained pattern of coercion underscores that the crime was not a random or isolated incident but a deliberate effort to impose religious conversion through intimidation and violence. The incident is on the lines of a wider pattern of religiously motivated hate crimes where Hindus are specifically targeted or met with hostility for refusal to convert to another faith or abandon Hinduism. 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 until they convert. This is not random violence; it is systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. 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: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when an event occurred or when the victim's ordeal began. It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case has specified the exact date when the harassment over conversion began. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the complaint was filed at the DM office: 14th November 2025. Disclaimer: In this case whole family was being coerced to convert to Christianity; still, the exact number of the family members is not mentioned in the report. Also, only one Hindu man was physically assaulted; hence, in this instance, we have conservatively considered two victims (the complainant and the victim of assault) for documentation purposes.
Victim Details
Total Victim
2
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 2
- Female 0
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 2
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 2
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
Unknown
Perpetrators Gender
unknown
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