Minor Hindu girl groomed, sexually exploited and pressured for conversion by Muslim man; forced to eat beef, read kalma and wear burqa
Munger, Bihar, India 
28 December, 2022
Case Summary
In Munger, Bihar, a minor Hindu girl named Mansha Kumari was groomed, deceived, sexually exploited, and pressured to convert to Islam by a Muslim man named Niazul. The accused performed a fake marriage with her as per Hindu rituals, forced her to eat beef, read kalma and wear a burqa in order to insult her religious beliefs. According to reports, the victim came into contact with the accused, Niazul, around four years ago in 2022, when her father, unable to afford coaching in the city, asked Niazul to tutor her at home after she completed Class 10. The victim knew that the accused was a Muslim and treated him as her brother. However, the accused gradually lured her into a romantic relationship through affectionate behaviour, emotional manipulation and persistent assurances of lifelong commitment, financial security and educational support. She stated that Niazul repeatedly assured her that he would convert to Hinduism to marry her and even claimed, “For you, I am Aryan.” When she initially rejected his proposal, Niazul emotionally blackmailed her with threats of suicide and continued to shower her with expensive gifts, eventually persuading her to enter into a relationship on the promise that he would convert to Hinduism. When the victim asked her family for permission to marry the accused, they refused. Due to this, Niazul asked the victim to elope with him. However, the accused manipulated her and convinced her to elope by promising her love and marriage. On 29 December 2025, Mansha left her home under the pretext of attending a practical class and eloped with Niazul. The two travelled via Munger railway station and boarded a train to Delhi. Upon reaching Delhi, Niazul initially refused to marry her, and when she insisted, he staged a fraudulent marriage ceremony as per Hindu rituals to pacify her. He took her to a location near Tis Hazari, describing it as an Arya Samaj temple, where a Muslim man posing as a Hindu priest conducted the marriage ceremony. Following this staged ceremony, she was taken to a room belonging to one of Niazul’s acquaintances, where she stayed with him. During this time, he also sexually exploited her and recorded obscene videos of her. On 31 December 2025, after her family lodged a complaint, the accused coerced her into recording a video stating that she had married him and left home of her own free will. When she resisted, he threatened to make her obscene videos viral on social media. Fearing social ruin, she complied and uploaded the video along with the marriage papers. She contacted a person known to her for clarity regarding her marriage documents, where she learned that her marriage documents were fake, confirming her growing suspicion that she had been deceived. She learned that the priest and others involved routinely carried out such sham ceremonies and that a large sum of money had been taken in her name. By 2 January 2026, Niazul was asked to vacate the accommodation in Delhi, and after failing to secure shelter elsewhere, he contacted his sister in Khagaria district, Bihar, who agreed to take him in. From this point onward, Niazul’s behaviour became increasingly abusive. He blamed Mansha for the police case, accused her of ruining his life, and subjected her to constant psychological pressure. The couple travelled back to Bihar and reached Khagaria on 4 January 2026. There, Mansha was forced to wear a burqa and was told she could not step outside without it, since someone would recognise her. At Niazul’s sister’s house, she was repeatedly pressured to eat meat, especially beef, and was told that as the wife of a Muslim man, she was now a Muslim herself and was required to do so. Despite her objections, meat was cooked in the house, and she was persistently urged to consume it. Over the following days, the pressure intensified. Mansha was told that marriage automatically changed her religion to Islam and that she was now a Muslim. She was compelled to recite Islamic prayers, urged to read the Kalma, and instructed to pray five times a day. They constantly pressured her and even threatened her, including intimidating her with a weapon to convert her to Islam. The promise that Niazul would convert to Hinduism was completely abandoned, and instead, she was surrounded by family members determined to force her conversion. On 6 January 2026, when she expressed a desire to leave, her phone was taken away, and she was confined indoors, effectively cutting off her contact with the outside world. Seeing no other way out, Mansha told Niazul that she would give a statement in his favour in court, affirming that she had eloped voluntarily, hoping this would allow her to escape. He agreed to take her to court in Munger, while threatening to kill her entire family if she spoke against him. On 7 January 2026, she was again forced to wear a burqa before leaving for court. Once there, she refused to live with him and disclosed the ordeal she had endured. Members of Hindu organisations intervened and reunited her with her mother. However, following her return, Mansha and her family received repeated death threats from Niazul and his relatives, who warned of kidnapping and murder. Due to fear for their lives, the family left their village and relocated to an undisclosed location. The victim revealed that she was cheated in the name of love, subjected to sexual blackmail, forced religious practices, threats of extreme violence, and sustained coercion aimed at converting her to Islam, which had left her traumatised.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category- Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the subcategory selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. Within this, the tertiary categories selected are- Conversion of Minor, Rape and sexual assault/harassment and Victim says was brainwashed/groomed. 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 the 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 proselytisation, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. The other sub-category selected here 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. The second primary category selected here is - Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within it, the sub-category selected here is - Forced conversion after marriage. The tertiary category selected here is - Forced to eat beef, Forced to wear hijab and Forced to read kalma. In such cases, a non-Hindu man marries a Hindu woman, and the force/pressure to convert to any Abrahamic faith, like Islam, begins after marriage. 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. 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 her religion after marriage. 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 situations, there is application of force by the perpetrator, including the denial of the woman’s religious rights. Some of the means by which the woman is forced/pressured to convert include force-feeding beef, being forced to read the Kalma, being forced to wear a hijab, forced to undergo 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. The other sub-category selected is - Brainwashed and/or groomed. Within this, the tertiary categories selected are- Conversion of Minor, Rape and sexual assault/harassment and Victim says 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. The other sub-category selected is - Assault or threat upon refusal to convert. When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force 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 pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. The third primary category selected here is - Attack on Hindu religious representations. Within it, the tertiary category selected here is - Defiling religious customs. Sanatan Dharma is not a religion of one book, which is to say that while it has religious scriptures that form the central tenets of the faith, there are several traditions followed through thousands of years, mostly passed from generation to generation orally. There are several such customs and traditions that are followed by various Hindus and Hindu sects. Defiling of these traditions and customs is a breach of an individual or group’s religious practices. Such practices can range from dietary restrictions like not eating non-vegetarian food for a certain period of the year, not eating non-vegetarian food at all, not eating beef since the cow is considered holy in Hinduism, the sanctity of religious customs followed in the house (like many ISCKON devotees), etc. Any malicious action leading to the breach of such traditions or defilement of these traditions owing to animosity towards the faith or for the sake of activism stems not only from the lack of faith in the religion itself but also from disregard for the faith of the devotees who follow the customs/traditions and implicit bias against the faith, the tradition itself. Since these specific traditions are central to the faith of the devotees of that specific sect of Hindus, any non-compliance with these traditional rules would be considered a religiously motivated hate crime. This case has been added to the tracker because a minor Hindu girl, Mansha Kumari, was deliberately groomed, deceived, sexually exploited, intimidated, and subjected to sustained coercion aimed at erasing her Hindu identity and forcing her conversion to Islam by a Muslim man named Niazul. Firstly, it is important to note here that when the victim came into contact with the accused, she was still a minor. Since the victim was a minor, this 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 by grooming her from a young age. Since this case exemplifies the use of coercion and manipulation to achieve religious conversion, it is a blatant act of religious hate. Such acts are not merely criminal in nature; they are ideologically charged, revealing religious prejudice and a calculated intent to alter the religious identity of a minor without her volition. The use of grooming, where trust is built only to exploit, is an insidious method that exploits the child’s naivety and dependence. Secondly, the accused lured her into a relationship by pretending to love her and claiming that he would convert to Hinduism and marry her. In this case, the accused did not conceal his religious identity. Instead, he made the Hindu girl believe that her faith would never come in the way of their relationship. These assurances were knowingly false and served to alleviate her concerns regarding religious backgrounds. The promise of conversion was used as a manipulative tactic designed to deceive her and gain her trust and compliance. However, his ultimate goal was sexual exploitation, which was followed by religious domination. By presenting himself as someone willing to accommodate her Hindu identity, the accused concealed his true intentions, exploiting her trust under false pretences. This deception reveals a premeditated effort to target a Hindu girl specifically, using emotional manipulation as a pathway to religious conversion. Thirdly, the religious targeting became explicit when the accused staged a fraudulent marriage ceremony using Hindu rituals. He arranged for a Muslim man to impersonate a Hindu priest, thereby desecrating sacred Hindu symbols and practices. In Sanatan Dharma, saffron attire and the role of a priest are sacred representations of renunciation, spiritual discipline, and purity. Their misuse was not merely deceptive but constituted an act of religious violation. By trivialising Hindu marriage rites and reducing them to tools of entrapment, the accused demonstrated contempt for Hindu religious traditions and used that contempt instrumentally to bind the victim into a false marital arrangement. Fourth, the accused then sexually exploited the victim and secretly recorded obscene videos of her, later using these recordings as tools of blackmail. By threatening to leak her videos, he coerced her into recording a video stating that she had married him and left home of her own free will. Sexual exploitation in this context functioned as a mechanism of control and humiliation. It was aimed at humiliating and dominating a Hindu girl because of her faith. The target was not the victim as an individual, but her Hindu identity. These acts were not random or opportunistic crimes, but deliberate instruments designed to break resistance and enforce submission. Fifth, the accused then took the victim to his sister's house, where she was subjected to constant pressure and threats for religious conversion. She was repeatedly told that marriage automatically nullified her Hindu identity and that she was now required to adopt Islam. Pressuring a Hindu individual to discard her religious faith and embrace another was a direct attack on her religious identity and dignity. It was not a matter of personal choice; it was coercion rooted in hostility towards the victim's Hindu identity. Such an attempt reflects religious animosity because the act was not simply about personal differences but about erasing the victim’s Hindu faith, making it a religiously motivated crime. Sixth, additionally, as a practising Hindu, the victim was forced by the Muslim accused and his sister to eat beef, an act prohibited in Hinduism, where the cow is considered sacred. Forcing her to consume beef was a deliberate attempt to dishonour her religion and humiliate her. This was not only sacrilegious but also a further tactic to weaken her attachment to her faith and force her towards conversion. Such acts have a precedent in history, where Hindu victims were forcibly fed beef by Muslim extremists to desecrate their beliefs and push them towards abandoning their Hindu faith. In this case, the force-feeding of beef was both an act of grave religious violation and an instrument in attempted forced conversion, shaped by hostility towards the Hindu victim and her faith, rendering this, unequivocally, a religiously motivated hate crime. Seventh, the accused compelled the victim to convert and even forced her to recite the Kalma, the Islamic declaration of faith, and to wear a burqa. Reciting the Kalma signifies a formal acceptance of Islam, so coercing the victim to do so was a clear attempt to forcibly convert her. The imposition of the burqa symbolised an erasure of her Hindu identity, replacing it with an Islamic identity and lifestyle. This compulsion to adopt religious symbols and practices against her will aimed to obliterate her original faith, making it a blatant, religiously motivated crime. Such forced conversions violate a victim’s religious autonomy and freedom of belief, and when conversion occurs under external pressure, force, or harassment, as in this case, it is unequivocally a hate crime. Eighth, furthermore, the victim was confined indoors, deprived of communication, and isolated from external contact. Forced isolation, sexual exploitation, and blackmail operated together as a systematic tool for control. Often in such cases, sexual violence, blackmail and forced isolation serve as manipulative tactics designed for physical subjugation and religious humiliation of the victim. The intention was to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she could be converted. This was not random violence; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. Taken together, the acts in this case demonstrate a coherent and ideologically driven attempt to dismantle the religious foundation of a Hindu minor and replace it with adherence to another faith. Such actions stem from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is subject to being dehumanised till they convert. Therefore, religious conversions, even of minors, are often seen as a badge of honour, totally disregarding the methods used to achieve it. Since such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents, this case is being documented as a religiously motivated hate crime. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the date of the incident based on when the crime occurred. The media reports published this case on 16 January 2026. However, the media reports do not specify the exact date of the beginning of the victim’s ordeal. The victim came in contact with the accused in 2022, and on 29 December 2025, the accused made her elope with him. Considering these two pieces of information, we are using an indicative date of 29 December 2022 as the date of the incident. This date is used for documentation purposes only and represents the estimated beginning of her ordeal.
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 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
both
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