Hindu woman pressured, threatened and blackmailed for religious conversion by Muslim man in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh
Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, India 
12 February, 2025
Case Summary
In Bakewar police station area of Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman identified as Alka Singh was pressured, harassed, threatened and blackmailed for religious conversion by a Muslim man named Aamir alias Chand. The accused also exploited the victim financially through extortion. Alka Singh, a Hindu Auxiliary Nurse Midwife posted at Primary Health Centre Bakewar in Fatehpur district, stated in her complaint that Aamir alias Chand, a resident of Garhi Mohalla under Jahanabad police station area, frequently visited her workplace. She stated that he interfered with her official duties and created disturbances at the primary health centre. According to the Hindu victim, the Muslim perpetrator abused her verbally and threatened her in front of others. She stated that he showed obscene photographs on his mobile phone and used them to intimidate her. He also threatened to kill her. The Hindu woman further stated that Aamir continuously pressured her to convert her religion. She stated that he used the obscene photos stored on his phone to force her to accept religious conversion. When she did not answer his calls, he called her colleagues, abused them, and issued threats. She stated that over the past one year (2025), the Muslim perpetrator extorted four lakh rupees from her by threatening and intimidating her. He continued demanding more money and threatened to make her photos viral if she did not comply. The Hindu victim also stated that due to these threats, she was compelled to bring her ailing mother with her to the workplace for safety. She further stated that Aamir harassed her on the road while she was travelling to and from work. Bakewar Station Incharge Tushar Srivastava confirmed that a First Information Report had been registered based on the Hindu victim’s complaint. The Muslim perpetrator, Aamir alias Chand, had been arrested and sent to court. Further legal proceedings were ongoing in the matter.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected for this case is "Predatory Proselytisation". The sub-category for this case is "Harassment, threats and 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 was a clear instance of a religiously motivated hate crime, as a Hindu woman was forced to convert to Islam by the Muslim perpetrator who pressured her relentlessly, threatened her life, and blackmailed her with obscene photographs. He wielded pressure, threats, and blackmail as deliberate tools for forced conversion, knowing these tactics would shatter her religious autonomy and violate her fundamental rights to practise her faith freely. This systematic assault on her Hindu beliefs showcased the perpetrator's deep animosity, as he sought to strip her of her cherished Hindu identity and impose his own religion upon her, transforming personal coercion into a profound attack on her religious dignity and community. Such targeted efforts to dismantle a Hindu woman's faith through intimidation amounted unequivocally to a religiously motivated hate crime, driven by hostility towards Hindus and their faith traditions. The Hindu victim endured subsequent and prolonged harassment for over one year, during which the Muslim perpetrator financially exploited her by extorting four lakh rupees, repeatedly called and abused her colleagues to isolate her, and stalked her on roads while she travelled to and from work, even forcing her to bring her ailing mother to her workplace for protection. This unyielding campaign of torment underscored the severity of his obsession to completely alter her religious identity, as he refused to relent until she surrendered her Hindu faith. The intensity and religious zeal evident in this sustained harassment revealed his burning animosity towards her as a Hindu woman, exposing his determination to obliterate her religious and cultural roots and compel submission to Islam at any cost, making it a hate-driven offence. These instances of targeted predatory proselytisation stemmed from inherent hostility towards the victim's Hindu faith, as the Muslim perpetrator believed that non-adherents like her deserved dehumanisation until they converted to Islam, making it a religiously motivated crime against Hindus. Therefore, this case was added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records dates of incidents based on when a crime occurred rather than when it was reported by the media. In this case, media reports did not state the exact date from when the victim's ordeal began. They only stated that the perpetrator harassed her for one year, which meant from 2025. Other than that, no specific date was mentioned. The media report was published on 13 February 2026. Based on both these pieces of information, 13 February 2025 was selected as the indicative incident date. This was recorded for documentation purposes only.
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
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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