Hindu family exploited through fake healing, converted to Islam by Muslim father-son duo in Farukkabad, UP

Case ID : d32744d | Location : Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India | Date of Incident : Fri, 30 January, 2026

Case ID : d32744d

Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

30 January, 2026

Hindu family exploited through fake healing, converted to Islam by Muslim father-son duo in Farukkabad, UP

Predatory Proselytisation

Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement

Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination

Victim says was brainwashed/groomed

Case Summary

In Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu father and his son were extorted and fraudulently converted to Islam. A Muslim father and son exploited the child’s illness by falsely promising a cure in exchange for conversion. The victim Rajkumar and his son Shivam, residents of Balipur village of Kamalganj, had filed a complaint application in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate against the Muslim accused Idrees and his son Tamjid, residents of Nagla Dawood village. In the application, the victim stated that his son Shivam was in poor health. After consulting several doctors, he found no improvement in the health of his son. He learned that the accused Idrish healed people through jhad-phoonk. Thereafter, he took his son to Idrish for an exorcism. The accused made amulets and put them around his son's neck, and dipped another in water and gave it to him to drink. The victim continued to visit the accused weekly for an exorcism, but to no avail. In September 2025, the accused lured him into believing that converting his son would cure him. Fearing for his son's life, the victim, Rajkumar, fell for his deception. Taking advantage of this, the accused forced him and his son Shivam to convert. After a few days, instead of recovering, the son became mentally unstable. It was also stated in the application that the accused extorted the victims of 40,000 to 45,000 rupees in the name of medical treatment. When he complained, the accused Idrish and his son Tamjid beat them up and drove them away. Then they complained to the police, but no action was taken. Upon receipt of the complaint application, the chief judicial magistrate ordered the Kamalganj police station in charge to file an FIR against the accused father and son and inform the court of the investigation.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category of: Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected: Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. The second sub-category selected is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, and within this, the tertiary categories are- Victim says was brainwashed/groomed, Pattern of targeting Hindus. 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 category selected in this case is- Attack not resulting in death. The sub-category included is- Attacked for opposing radicals or trying to save the victim. In several cases, Hindus are attacked for opposing religiously motivated crimes being committed against a fellow Hindu or simply for voicing an opinion opposing radical elements, who either have in the past or continue to persecute Hindus. In such cases, the initial attack against the victim, against which the Hindu was trying to defend the victim, would also need to be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime. Since the initial crime itself was religiously motivated and the subsequent crime of attempting to save the victim or speaking against the radical elements ends up inviting a violent attack, it would also be classified as a religiously motivated hate crime under this category. This incident constitutes a hate crime against Hindus because the Islamic perpetrators deliberately exploited the religious identity of the Hindu victims under the guise of healing. The victim was duped into believing that his son would be cured of illness if he and his son converted to Islam. The accused was well aware of the father’s helpless situation. He exploited it to his own advantage by tying the promise of recovery directly to conversion and making religion the condition for healing. This coercion was not incidental but targeted, as the Hindu identity of the victims was deliberately positioned as the obstacle to their son’s cure. The use of jhaad-phoonk rituals and amulets was a calculated deception. By presenting themselves as spiritual healers, the accused created false hope and dependency, gradually luring the victims into submission. This fraudulent practice was not only ineffective but deliberately designed to manipulate faith and vulnerability, showing a clear pattern of targeting Hindus in distress. Financial exploitation further compounded the harm. The victims were extorted of a large sum of money, under the pretext of treatment. This demonstrates that the accused were not merely coercing conversion but also profiting from the desperation of a Hindu family, combining religious manipulation with economic fraud. The pattern of targeting is evident in the way the accused preyed on a father’s fear for his son’s life. They identified the family’s vulnerability, exploited their helplessness, and used it as leverage to enforce conversion. This shows deliberate intent to undermine Hindu identity through deception and coercion. This manipulation and coercion stem from deep-seated doctrinal hostility towards the victim’s religious identity. Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to their faith is subject to being exploited till they convert. Since such acts are motivated by religious bias and involve coercive tactics aimed at forced conversion of the victim, this case is documented as a religiously motivated hate crime grounded in predatory proselytisation. Finally, when the victims resisted and complained, the accused resorted to violence, beating them and driving them away. This escalation from fraud to physical assault underscores the hate‑motivated nature of the crime, where Hindus were not only deceived and extorted but also attacked for asserting their rights. Taken together, the coercion, the financial extortion, the deliberate targeting of vulnerable Hindus, and the violence upon resistance establish this incident as a hate crime against Hindus. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incidents based on when the victim’s suffering began, not when it was reported in the media. In this case, the victim’s ordeal began when he came to the accused for his son's illness, but no exact date is mentioned in the media report, except September 2025. Therefore, for the purposes of documentation, January 31, 2026, is recorded as the date when the incident was reported in the media.