Minor Hindu girl raped and forcibly converted to Islam by Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh

Case ID : b1c5cac | Location : Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 8 October, 2024

Case ID : b1c5cac

Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India

8 October, 2024

Minor Hindu girl raped and forcibly converted to Islam by Muslim men in Uttar Pradesh

Predatory Proselytisation

Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination

Rape and sexual assault/harassment

Conversion of minor

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Case Summary

In Yamuna Nagar, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, a 14-year-old Hindu girl was gang-raped and forcibly converted to Islam by Muslim men. According to information available, the victim’s parents were deceased, and she lived alone with her 10-year-old brother. In 2024, the accused, Mohammad Alam, a resident of neighbouring Ubari village, lured the girl and her brother with the promise of employment at a hotel. He made the girl work at a roadside eatery (dhaba) for a few days but later took her to his home, where he raped her. Subsequently, his Muslim associates, Atif and Mumtaz Alam, residents of Chak Ghanshyamdas village, also raped the girl. After the assaults, the girl was forcibly converted to Islam and her name was changed on her Aadhaar card. On the night of 7th October 2025, the teenager managed to escape from Alam’s home and, after reaching her village, reported the incident. On learning of the incident on 9th October 2025, Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Yamunapaar District Vice President Shivdutt Mishra, Minister Ravi Tiwari, Convenor Shubham Pandey, Co-Minister Manoj Singh, along with several workers and villagers, arrived at the police station with the victim. Anticipating tension, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) also arrived with additional force. In the evening, a formal complaint was registered, and the main accused, Mohammad Alam, was arrested. The girl was sent to the Central Women’s Welfare Commission (CWC) for protection and rehabilitation. The victim had managed to reach her village on her own, but her younger brother remained missing. Villagers feared something untoward may have happened to him, while the arrested Alam told police that his relative had the minor boy. Consequently, a police team was deployed to search for him. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Yamunanagar, Vivek Chandra Yadav, stated that the main accused had been arrested and that efforts were underway to apprehend the remaining accused. A team was also deployed to trace the missing younger brother of the victim.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Predatory Proselytisation. The subcategory selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation, or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary categories selected are- 'Rape and sexual assault/harassment' and 'Conversion of minor'. 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. The other subcategory 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. This case represents a clear instance of a religiously motivated hate crime, in which a minor Hindu girl was deliberately manipulated and targeted due to her vulnerable circumstances. At just 14 years old and with no parents to protect or guide her, she lacked the emotional and mental maturity to make adult decisions such as trusting strangers or leaving home for employment. Exploiting her vulnerability, the accused lured her and her younger brother away under the promise of offering them a job. Once isolated, the girl was subjected to sexual assault by the Muslim perpetrators. This was not a random act of violence but a calculated assault following religious profiling, designed to degrade, humiliate, and harm a Hindu girl for her faith. The attack reflects deep-seated religious hostility towards Hinduism and its adherents, turning sexual violence into a tool of religious persecution. After the gang rape, the Muslim perpetrators forcibly converted the minor Hindu girl to Islam, further proving the religious motivation behind the crime. A forced conversion, particularly of a minor, is a grave violation of religious freedom and personal autonomy. A minor does not have the emotional or legal capacity to make decisions concerning faith, and compelling her to abandon her religion reveals a deliberate attempt to erase her Hindu identity. The coercive act of not only sexually assaulting her but also imposing another religion through fear and violence reflects an organised pattern of harassment and religious coercion. This transforms the incident from an act of sexual brutality into a targeted, religion-based offence. Together, the rape and the forced conversion illustrate entrenched religious animosity. The perpetrators’ actions show that this was not an impulsive crime but a premeditated attack motivated by hatred for the victim’s faith. By profiling, violating, and dehumanising her because she was Hindu, they turned gender-based violence into an act of communal hatred. This pattern makes clear that the victim’s religious identity was at the core of the perpetrators’ motivations, aimed at asserting religious dominance and inflicting both psychological and cultural trauma. Furthermore, the fact that the Hindu victim's younger brother remains missing amidst these events raises grave concerns regarding his safety. Considering that both siblings were targeted due to their Hindu identity, there is a strong possibility that the brother’s disappearance is also linked to the same religiously motivated intent. His missing status adds a deeply distressing dimension to the crime and further amplifies the seriousness of the hate-driven assault, revealing that the attack may not have been limited to one victim but targeted the vulnerable Hindu siblings as a whole. This case, therefore, fits the clear parameters of a religiously motivated hate crime. It has been added to the Hate Crime Database of the Hinduphobia Tracker for documentation and analysis of anti-Hindu crimes. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the date of an incident based on when the crime occurred rather than when it was reported by the media. The incident was reported by the media on 9th October 2025. However, the report did not specify the exact date when the victim’s ordeal began. It stated that in the year 2024, the accused Mohammad Alam lured the minor girl away with the promise of employment and subsequently raped her. Therefore, only the year of the initial targeting is available, not the precise date or month. The same media report confirmed that a police complaint was filed on 9th October 2025. Accordingly, for documentation purposes, an indicative date of 9th October 2024 has been used to represent the approximate time when the victim’s ordeal began. This indicative date is provided solely for record-keeping and documentation purposes.