Hindu woman pressured, harassed and threatened for religious conversion and marriage by Muslim man in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh
Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
1 February, 2025
Case Summary
In Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman was pressured, harassed and threatened for religious conversion and marriage by a Muslim man. According to the victim, about a year ago, in 2025, she hired the accused, who was a carpenter, to install furniture at her house. During this period, he harboured inappropriate intentions towards the victim and her children. Even after the furniture work was completed, the accused continued visiting the victim's house, in the absence of her husband, under the pretext of meeting the children. When the victim objected to these visits, he issued threats that he would destroy her family. Over time, he pressured her to leave her husband, convert to Islam, and marry him, causing severe distress and fear. Subsequently, with the help of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) workers, the victim filed a complaint with the Kotwali police station and demanded strict legal action. The Inspector-in-Charge confirmed receipt of the complaint and stated that the matter was under investigation and that further action would be taken after investigation.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the primary category selected of - Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected 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 added to the tracker because a Hindu woman was targeted, harassed and pressured to convert to Islam by the Muslim accused. The accused attempted to force the Hindu woman to renounce her religion and convert to 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. When the victim resisted these demands and objected to the accused’s repeated visits, he escalated the abuse by threatening to destroy her family while continuing to pressure her to convert and marry him. In such cases, threats serve a dual purpose: physical subjugation and religious humiliation. The intention was to break the victim down, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, so that she could be converted. This was not random; it was systematic, targeted, and rooted in religious animosity. 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. Such acts were not merely personal crimes; they were rooted in a desire to dominate and erase the religious identity of the victim. 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: It is important to clarify that none of the media sources covering this case have specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began, though it is mentioned that she came into contact with the accused in 2025. Thus, to document this case, we have used an indicative date, 2 February 2025, as a placeholder to represent the beginning of her suffering. While media coverage of the incident emerged on 2 February 2026, the Hinduphobia Tracker records the incident based on when the victim’s ordeal began, not when it was reported.
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
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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