Muslim man traps Hindu girl is love affair, then rapes and harasss her to convert to Islam and marry him

Case ID : b7c3edb | Location : Ambajogai, Maharashtra, India | Date of Incident : Sat, 19 August, 2023

Case ID : b7c3edb

Ambajogai, Maharashtra, India

19 August, 2023

Muslim man traps Hindu girl is love affair, then rapes and harasss her to convert to Islam and marry him

Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes

Forced conversion after marriage

Forced to read Kalma

Case Summary

A 26-year-old Hindu girl from the Ambejogai region of Beed district in Maharashtra was trapped in a love affair, raped, assaulted, and then forced to marry the accused identified as Amir Tamboli from the Pune district. The girl was also brainwashed and forced to accept Islam. The Ambejogai Police filed an FIR against Amir Tamboli and his associates identified as Nandini Banerjee, Adv Arshad Nehal, and Asif who helped the primary accused convert the girl. The victim girl was also looted for money, asked to make nude video calls, and was forced to take Islamic education post-conversion.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

In this case, there is a distinct component which proves that the offence was committed coupled with a religious bias. Because of the case's specifics, we have put this case under the prime category: Hate Crimes against women in relationship, and to narrow down the search further we have chosen the subcategories 'Forced conversion after marriage' under this core category. In this case, there is no specific element of the Muslin accused hiding his identity. The woman got into a relationship with the accused assuming that their religious identities would not be a hindrance in their relationship, however, the Muslim man started applying pressure on the victim to convert to Islam and follow Islamic principles against her will. He also inflicted torture on her when she refused to accede to his demands, pointing towards a crime with his motivations being driven by religious hate. In such cases, a non-Hindu man marries a Hindu woman and the force/pressure to convert to Islam begins after marriage. In such cases, the marriage is consensual in most cases and often, there is no element of the man hiding his religious identity. The marriage could be under the Special Marriages Act where neither parties are required to convert their religion for the marriage to be considered legitimate. While the victim in such cases enters matrimony assuming that religious identity is not a barrier, the non-Hindu man starts to pressure the woman to convert to Islam after marriage. In such cases, there is application of force by the perpetrator, including, denial of the woman’s religious rights. Some of the means by which the woman is forced/pressured to convert include force-feeding beef, forced to read the Kalma, forced to wear a hijab, forced for Halala, etc. There are several instances where after marriage, the woman voluntarily converts to Islam. Such cases are often argued to be a result of religious brainwashing, however, for the purpose of documenting religiously motivated hate crimes, in the absence of the victim complaining of forced conversion, such cases do not form a part of the database.