Minor Hindu girl lured into relationship, raped, pressured to convert to Islam and wear burqa by Muslim boys
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India 
1 August, 2025
Case Summary
In Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, a Hindu minor girl was brainwashed and lured into a relationship by a Muslim minor boy. The victim was then raped, held captive and forced to wear a burqa by the accused and his Muslim friend. She was also coerced to convert to Islam and was taken to Indore by the accused. The incident came to light when a 15-year-old minor Dalit Hindu girl disappeared from Chimanganj Mandi in Ujjain. After the girl's disappearance on 2 February 2026, Chimanganj Mandi police registered a case and investigated the matter. The victim was later recovered by police in Indore. The minor girl was recovered wearing a burqa. During the investigation, it was revealed that six months earlier, a Muslim minor from Ahmednagar lured the Hindu girl into a love affair and raped her. Later, after breaking up with her, he sent his own friend after her. The other Muslim boy brainwashed her and, with the help of his family, took her away and held her captive in a Muslim-dominated area of Indore. The Hindu Jagran Manch accused the entire incident of following a "grooming gang pattern," suggesting a conspiracy to trap Hindu minors. The organisation stated that the minor was lured away from her home and even forced to convert to Islam. Arjun Bhadoria of the Hindu Jagran Manch said that this incident, modelled after a grooming gang, was first reported in Ujjain in an illegal colony in the No. 5 Naka area. A 15-year-old Dalit girl from the Hindu community was lured away by a minor boy from a Muslim family. Chimanganj police station in-charge Gajendra Pachauri said that the Hindu girl was kept hidden in a relative's house, wearing a burqa. Both the Muslim boys were questioned. As per the victim's statement, a rape case was registered against the minor accused and his accomplices.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the tracker under the first primary category- Predatory Proselytisation. Within it, the sub-category selected is - Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination, with the tertiary categories being - Conversion of minor, Rape and sexual assault/harassment. 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 subcategory 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. The second primary category selected here is - Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes. Within it, the sub-category selected is Brainwashed and/or groomed. The tertiary categories selected are- Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of minor. 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’ 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 are crimes, for 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 hate crimes. This incident constituted a religiously motivated hate crime, as a Hindu minor girl was deliberately targeted for religious conversion. She was lured, brainwashed, raped, and forced to convert and wear a burqa by a Muslim youth and his accomplice. More importantly, the victim was a minor, which meant that the element of consent and genuine change of conscience was absent from the outset. Her young age and lack of maturity made her especially vulnerable to manipulation and coercion. She could not fully understand the implications of converting to another religion, and the Muslim perpetrator deliberately exploited this weakness. Any supposed consent for a relationship or elopement was invalid under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. This demonstrated that the perpetrator targeted the victim for religious coercion, manipulation, and sexual exploitation, making it a hate-driven act. Such acts are not only criminal in nature but also ideologically charged. They reveal religious prejudice and a clear intent to alter the minor's religious identity without her choice. Grooming built trust solely for exploitation, preying insidiously on the child's naivety and dependence. Both the Muslim boys deliberately approached her for grooming, exploitation, and conversion. The first lured her into a relationship, raped her, then ended it and sent his friend to continue the brainwashing and religious coercion. This established a systematic pattern targeting the Hindu minor girl for her religious identity. This change unfolded gradually through grooming. The accused distanced the victim from her Hindu identity, aiming to convert her to Islam. He reshaped her daily practices and beliefs through manipulation and coercion, weakening her religious consciousness over time. Molestation and sexual violence broke her emotionally, physically, and spiritually to enable conversion. This systematic, targeted approach was rooted in religious animosity. Luring her into a relationship created emotional dependence, enabling forced alteration of her Hindu faith. The accused felt no genuine love for the victim; he saw her only as a tool for sexual exploitation and conversion, dehumanising her due to her Hindu identity and confirming it as a hate crime. Taking her from her home to Indore for coercion completely isolated the minor, aiming to destroy her Hindu identity and impose Islam. This religiously motivated isolation through harassment underscored the crime's targeted nature. Also, forcing her to wear a burqa was a deliberate conversion tactic. By imposing Islamic attire, the accused normalised Islamic customs, easing future conversion and severing her ties to her Hindu faith and identity. This exemplified religiously motivated aggression. Such actions stemmed from hostility towards the victim's faith since Abrahamic faiths often view non-adherents as needing conversion, treating even minors' conversions as triumphs regardless of methods. This predatory behaviour, rooted in animosity towards Hinduism and its followers, marked the incident as a religiously motivated hate crime. Given that this case met the parameters of a religiously motivated crime, it was added to the hate crime database of the tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker recorded incidents based on when the event occurred or the victim's ordeal began. Media sources did not specify the exact start date, only the disappearance on 2 February 2026 and meeting the accused six months earlier. Therefore, based on this information, an indicative date of 2 August 2025 was used for documentation purposes only. Reports specified that the Hindu minor was targeted by two Muslim youths with family help, but did not detail total perpetrators. Only the two boys were named, so they were recorded as the indicative perpetrators (count: 2). This conservative estimate served documentation purposes only, as the actual number could have been higher.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 1
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 1
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 0
Age Group
- Minor 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Complaint registered
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
male
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