Hindu widow puts poster to sell house after Muslim locals abduct daughter multiple times

Case ID : b45f453 | Location : Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Thu, 19 December, 2024
Case ID : b45f453
location Lakhimpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
date 19 December, 2024
Hindu widow puts poster to sell house after Muslim locals abduct daughter multiple times
Attack not resulting in death
Attacked to induce migration from non-Hindu dominated area
Attacked for Hindu identity

Case Summary

A widow named Sunita, a mother of three children, including two daughters, placed a poster outside her house, declaring her intent to sell the property and leave the village in Lakhimpur’s Phoolbehad area. She cited repeated harassment by local Muslim residents as the reason for this decision. The poster gained widespread attention after going viral on social media, prompting swift police intervention. The issue escalated after Sunita’s elder daughter was abducted multiple times by a local Muslim man and his accomplices. In each instance, the family filed police complaints, leading to the girl’s recovery. Despite this, the incidents persisted, with another abduction case being filed on November 11, nearly a month after the girl’s latest disappearance. Frustrated and distressed by the repeated offences and the lack of a lasting resolution, Sunita put up the poster, stating her inability to endure further harassment.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been included in the database under the prime category- Attack not resulting in death. Within this, two sub-categories have been selected. The first is- Attacked for Hindu identity. In several cases, Hindus are attacked merely for their Hindu identity without any perceived provocation. A classic example of this category of religiously motivated hate crime is a murder in 2016. 7 ISIS terrorists were convicted for shooting a school principal in Kanpur because they got ‘triggered’ seeing the Kalava on his wrist and tilak that he had put. In this, the Hindu victim had offered no provocation except for his Hindu religious identity. The motivation for the murder was purely religious, driven by religious supremacy. Such cases where Hindus are targeted merely for their religious identity would be documented as a hate crime under this category. The second sub-category relevant here is- Attacked to induce migration from non-Hindu dominated area. There have been cases where the Hindus living in an area, often with a majority dwelling belonging to non-Hindus or those harbouring animosity towards the Hindu faith, the Hindu residents experience threats and violence. The violence is employed with the aim of making the Hindus leave the area and relocate, so the area could be turned into an exclusive ghetto for adherents of the non-Hindu faith or those who harbor animosity towards the Hindu faith. In several cases, the aim of exodus is explicit. However, in several cases, the demand for exodus of Hindu residents is not explicit, however, violence by non-Hindu residents leaves the Hindu residents no option but to leave the area, thereby, turning the area into an exclusive ghetto of non-Hindu residents. In such cases, there are instances violence against the Hindu residents explicitly. For example, in the Hauz Qazi case of 2019, the Muslim residents claimed that mob violence against the Hindu residents had been triggered by a parking dispute. However, the violence did turn religious with a temple being desecrated and was directed specifically against the Hindu residents. The Hindu residents of the area were clear that the violence was religiously motivated and one of the motives was to affect an exodus of the Hindu residents. In such cases, even though the perpetrators have not explicitly expressed the aim of affecting exodus, the given circumstances and violence and precedent point to the intention of exodus and therefore would be categorized under this sub-category. Such crimes are religiously motivated and therefore are hate crimes. This case rightly qualifies as a religiously motivated hate crime under the above-mentioned category and sub-categories due to the clear targeting of Sunita's family on account of their faith and identity. The repeated abductions of her elder daughter by local Muslim men were not isolated incidents but part of a sustained campaign of harassment designed to intimidate and humiliate the Hindu family. This harassment, coupled with the family’s eventual decision to sell their property and leave, suggests a purposeful attempt to drive them out based on their religious identity as Hindus. The perpetrators’ actions fit within the broader pattern of targeting Hindu individuals in areas where they are in the minority, aiming to induce migration and alter the demographic composition of the region. The harassment, driven by animosity toward the family's faith, thus qualifies as a religiously motivated hate crime under both sub-categories.

Victim Details

Total Victim

4

Deceased

0


Gender

  • Male 1
  • Female 3
  • Third Gender 0
  • Unknown 0

Caste

  • SC/ST 0
  • OBC 0
  • General 0
  • Unknown 4

Age Group

  • Minor 2
  • Adult 2
  • Senior Citizen 0
  • Unknown 0
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Case Status


Complaint registered

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Perpetrators Details

Perpetrators


Muslim Extremists

Perpetrators Range


Unknown

Perpetrators Gender


male

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