Minor Hindu students subjected to religious brainwashing; Christian teacher distributes Bibles in class
Jashpur, Chhattisgarh, India 
10 February, 2026
Case Summary
In Kerasai, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh, minor Hindu female students were targeted and religiously brainwashed by a Christian teacher. The accused deliberately distributed Bibles to Hindu students in class. According to media reports, the accused teacher was identified as Deepak Tigga. The entire incident occurred at a government school in Kerasai, Jashpur. On the day of the incident, Deepak Tigga arrived at the school with Bible books and distributed them to 11th- and 12th-grade female students. Upon receiving this information, the school management was shocked. The principal took immediate action against the accused and wrote a letter to the District Education Officer, demanding appropriate action.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected in this case is- Predatory Proselytisation. The sub-category selected is Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. The tertiary category selected is- Conversion of minor. 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. This case is a clear case of a religiously motivated crime as the Christian teacher Deepak Tigga targeted Hindu minor girls for religious brainwashing by distributing Bibles to 11th- and 12th-grade students inside a government school in Kerasai, without parental consent. This deliberate imposition of Christian scriptures on Hindu children in a state-run institution reflected deep-seated religious animosity, viewing Hinduism as inferior and ripe for subversion. By exploiting the school's authority to bypass parental oversight, Tigga engaged in predatory proselytisation that violated the girls' religious autonomy, marking it as a hate crime aimed at eroding their Hindu faith identity from a young age. Minors lack the cognitive maturity for informed consent or understanding long-term religious implications of conversion and religious brainwashing, making Tigga's actions a calculated exploitation of their vulnerability. The forced exposure to Christian texts constituted psychological coercion, subtly conditioning impressionable minds against their native faith, Hinduism. This animosity-driven targeting of Hindu children, rather than neutral education, demonstrated Christian supremacist motives to supplant Hinduism, transforming a classroom into a site of religious hate crime through institutional abuse. The absence of parental consent amplified the violation, as Tigga weaponised the trust in public education to introduce Christian narratives via scriptures and repetition. Such gradual conditioning seeks to weaken Hindu spiritual roots, replacing them with alien beliefs. This covert manipulation, rooted in hostility towards Hinduism, qualifies as a hate crime by undermining the victims' and their families' religious rights and imposing an antagonistic Abrahamic faith, revealing a pattern of anti-Hindu aggression disguised as benevolence. This coordinated subversion qualifies as an anti-Hindu hate crime, driven by religious animosity that deems Hindu children convertible targets. Since this case involves targeted proselytisation of Hindu children, it is being added to the Hate Crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the crimes actually occur rather than when they are reported by the media. However, in this particular case, the media report has not specified the exact date of the incident. Therefore, for documentation purposes, 11th February 2026, the date when the media report was published, is being used as the indicative date of the incident.
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Christian Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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