Minor Hindu girl ends life after relentlessly harassed and threatened to convert by Muslim man in Dewas, MP
Dewas, Madhya Pradesh, India 
30 December, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu minor girl committed suicide in Satwas Nagar, Dewas district, Madhya Pradesh, after being relentlessly harassed and pressured by a Muslim man to marry him and convert to Islam. The incident led to widespread outrage in the area. According to reports, the 15-year-old minor, a 9th-grade student, consumed poison at her home. She was immediately taken to the hospital by her family, but she died during treatment due to her critical condition. Her family stated that the minor had met a muslim man through social media. He had been blackmailing her with obscene photos and videos to force her into marriage and religious conversion. His actions causied her extreme mental distress that drove her to take her own life. Following the incident, members of several Hindu organisations gathered at the Dewas police station, demanding strict action. During the protest, a road blockade was also briefly organised, which was ended after assurances from Kannaud SDOP Aditya Tiwari and the Tehsildar. The case was being investigated, and no arrests were made till the time of documenting the case
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category in this case is: Predatory Proselytisation. The first subcategory under this is: Suicide after pressure to convert. When there is pressure, threat or coercion employed upon the Hindu victim to convert to a different religion, in several cases, owing to the humiliation or pressure/threat, the victim commits suicide. In such cases, the pressure/threat/intimidation/coercion/violence itself is driven by animosity towards the victim’s Hindu faith. The pressure/threat that is employed leads to the Hindu victim taking his own life. Since the victim’s faith is at the heart of the pressure to convert and the ensuing suicide by the victim, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. Another subcategory under this 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 has been included in the Hinduphobia Tracker because it represents one of the most tragic and direct manifestations of predatory proselytisation — where coercion, intimidation, and exploitation of personal vulnerability are used to force a Hindu victim into religious conversion. The victim, a Hindu girl from Dewas, was relentlessly harassed by a Muslim man, who sought to compel her into marriage and conversion to Islam. His actions were not merely personal or emotional in nature but were deeply rooted in religious hostility, aimed at undermining her freedom of belief and identity as a Hindu minor girl. The continuous pressure and humiliation inflicted upon her because she refused to renounce her faith drove her to suicide, making this not just a case of abetment to suicide but an act of religiously motivated persecution. The foundation of this hate crime lies in the deliberate targeting of the victim’s faith. The harassment was not incidental; it was structured around the intent to erase her Hindu identity through coercion, emotional blackmail, and psychological torment. The use of obscene photos and videos as tools of control reflects a methodical form of intimidation and harassment designed to break her resistance and force submission. The demand for religious conversion as a precondition for marriage demonstrates that the perpetrator’s objective was not affection or companionship but religious domination. When a person is systematically pressured to abandon her faith under threat, humiliation, and exploitation, it ceases to be a private matter and becomes an assault on her spiritual and cultural autonomy. The pressure to convert was not limited to private persuasion but extended into acts of humiliation and violence. This escalation from psychological manipulation to physical violence is characteristic of religiously motivated hate crimes, where the perpetrator perceives the victim’s faith as something that must be subdued or conquered. The fact that the victim was driven to suicide highlights the destructive impact of such targeted religious persecution. Suicide in such cases is not an act of individual despair alone but a direct consequence of systemic coercion rooted in hatred for the victim’s religion. When a Hindu woman feels so trapped and humiliated by relentless pressure to abandon her faith that death appears as the only escape, the act becomes a reflection of religious oppression rather than personal tragedy. The perpetrator’s conduct, sustained over time, exploitative in nature, and religiously motivated, constitutes a deliberate campaign of psychological violence against her as a Hindu. This is not an isolated case; there have been various cases recorded by the tracker where minors have committed suicide as a result of unbearable mental harassment by Muslim men to convert them to Islam. It is further important to note here that the victim was a minor, which means the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was missing ab initio. Minors, due to their young age and lack of maturity, are particularly vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. They may not have the ability to fully understand the implications of converting to another religion, and the Muslim perpetrator purposely targeted and exploited this vulnerability of the victim. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religious conversion, it is a blatant act of religious hate, which is why it has been documented here in the hate tracker. Moreover, the invocation of the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act in this case is particularly significant. It recognises that the victim’s religious identity was central to the harassment she endured. This case has been documented in the Hinduphobia Tracker to underline how coercion for conversion often manifests through emotional exploitation, sexual blackmail, and psychological domination, culminating in irreversible outcomes like suicide. It also serves as a record of how religious hate can operate through private acts of cruelty that, while seemingly interpersonal, are in fact ideological in motive and communal in consequence. Disclaimer: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date on which the victim committed suicide. Therefore, for documentation purposes, we have recorded the date based on when the incident was reported in the media.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
1
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- 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
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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