Hindu girl abducted, sexually exploited, and forced to convert to Islam in the pretext of marriage in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh
Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India 
25 December, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu girl was abducted, sexually exploited, and coerced into abandoning her faith by a Muslim man named Noor Alam. The incident occurred under the jurisdiction of the Ravindranagar Dhus police station in Kushinagar district, Uttar Pradesh. The accused used the pretext of marriage to compel the girl to convert to another religion. On 26 December 2025, Noor Alam lured the girl from her home and carried out the forced conversion along with sexual assault. These acts were executed in tandem, linking religious coercion with physical and psychological control. The victim suffered severe physical and emotional trauma, including restriction of freedom, removal from her community, and distress caused by forced abandonment of her faith. The incident also caused deep concern for her family regarding religious safety and personal autonomy. Following her statement, the police registered a First Information Report on 27 December 2025, documenting the abduction, sexual assault, and forced religious conversion under Case Crime No. 208/2025, invoking Section 69 of the BNS and Sections 3 and 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act. Authorities arrested Noor Alam and presented him before the court. He has been remanded to judicial custody. The police investigation, based on initial evidence, confirmed that the accused had used the guise of marriage to perpetrate sexual exploitation and illegal religious conversion.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case is documented under the selected primary category: Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Under this, the selected secondary category is: Brainwashed/and or groomed. Under this, the selected tertiary category is: Rape and sexual assault/harrasment, Victim says that she was brainwashed/groomed. In our database, we have not added incidents where women have converted to another religion of their free will and no allegations of forced/involuntary conversion have been made. However, there are certain cases of conversion where the consent itself is a result of the brainwashing or grooming of a minor by the non-Hindu perpetrator trying to victimise a woman for her Hindu religious identity. The phenomenon of grooming points to non-Hindu perpetrators identifying their Hindu victims’ vulnerabilities and exploiting them over months and sometimes years, to extract the supposed ‘consent’ in order to convert their religion. In most cases of grooming, the victims are minors or the grooming started when the victim was a minor. In other cases of grooming, the non-Hindu perpetrator brainwashes and grooms a minor victim to extract their trust and then proceeds to rape them repeatedly with the intent of converting them to their faith. It is pertinent to understand here that when the victim is a minor, the ‘consent’ to convert or enter into a romantic relationship with an adult itself is redundant – addressed by POCSO. While every case of conversion of a minor and incidents of establishing a physical relationship with a minor by an adult is a crime, for the purpose of this database, a case would be considered a hate crime only if there is a distinct religious angle to the grooming. For example, in the UK, if a Hindu minor is targeted by Pakistani grooming gangs, it would be considered a hate crime because the victims are specifically targeted owing to their non-Muslim religious identity with the perpetrators being Muslim. In other cases, if a Hindu minor is brainwashed into entering a physical relationship with the non-Hindu adult perpetrator and the family alleges grooming/brainwashing of the minor to convert her religion, it would form a part of this database. If the victim is a Hindu adult, the case would form a part of this database only if the victim herself says that she was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. However, if the victim is deceased (murdered or otherwise), the case would form a part of this database if her family/friends provided testimony that the victim was brainwashed/groomed to convert her religion. Since these crimes have a distinct religious angle where the victim is being targeted owing to her Hindu religious identity, these cases are considered a hate crime. Another selected secondary category is: Rape for refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces pressure/threats/violence to convert and change her religious identity by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressuring the Hindu woman to convert. In some of these cases, the association could be non-consensual as well or, the religious identity of the non-Muslim man could be previously unknown to the Hindu victim. As the case may be, in such cases, the non-Hindu man forces himself sexually on the Hindu woman when she refuses his advances and pressures to convert her religion. The rape of the woman is often seen as either a punishment for the woman refusing to convert. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Another selected secondary category is: Forced conversion before marriage. In such cases, a non-Hindu man is in a relationship with a Hindu woman when the pressure to convert her religion begins to manifest. In such cases, typically, two patterns emerge. First, when the relationship is consensual, and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu woman in the relationship, however, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts to force the victim to convert her religion and give up her Hindu religious identity. The second is when the woman gets into a marriage with the man pretending to share her faith. Later, when the truth is revealed, the man starts pressuring the woman to convert her religion and give up her religious identity. In both the situations, the methods used to force the victim to convert her religion often revolve around force-feeding beef, forcing her to wear hijab, forcing her to read the Kalma or even pressurizing the victim to do ‘Nikah’, which is marriage under Islamic law, with a prerequisite being conversion to Islam. Cases where a Hindu woman consensually converts to Islam in a relationship will be left out of the hate crime database, even though it could be argued in several cases that the conversion was a result of religious brainwashing. This case classifies as a religiously motivated hate crime due to the following observations: Firstly, the Hindu girl was specifically targeted because of her religious identity. Noor Alam approached her with the intent to remove her from her faith and force her to adopt another religion. The coercion was central to the actions of the accused, and the promise of marriage was used solely as a tool to gain her trust and isolate her from her family and community. This demonstrates a deliberate focus on her Hindu identity rather than personal, financial, or other motives. Secondly, the method of coercion included abduction and sexual assault, which were employed to enforce the religious conversion. Noor Alam took the girl from her home on 26 December 2025 and maintained control over her, forcing her to abandon her faith. The sexual assault was not incidental but part of the systematic use of physical and psychological control to ensure compliance with the conversion. This combination of acts represents a direct violation of her bodily autonomy and religious freedom. Thirdly, the sequence of events indicates premeditation and planning. The accused deliberately structured his actions to achieve conversion: he first gained her trust through the promise of marriage, then abducted her, and simultaneously carried out the religious coercion and sexual assault. Each step was designed to assert dominance and to ensure her compliance, showing intent to target her specifically because of her religion. Lastly, the police investigation and subsequent actions confirm the deliberate targeting and the seriousness of the acts. A First Information Report was registered on 27 December 2025, and the accused was pursued, arrested, and remanded to judicial custody. The documentation of the abduction, sexual assault, and forced conversion in official records further evidences the religiously motivated nature of the crime. In conclusion, the combination of targeted selection based on religion, coercive methods including abduction and sexual assault, premeditated execution of the acts, and the broader impact on the victim and her community demonstrate that this case was a deliberate attack motivated by religious hatred. The intent, methods, and consequences collectively establish this as a religiously motivated hate crime.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 1
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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