Hindu woman sexually exploited, pressured for religious conversion, and subjected to casteist slurs by Muslim man posing as Hindu
Amroha, Uttar Pradesh, India 
22 February, 2025
Case Summary
In Amroha district, Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit Hindu woman, originally a resident of Ghaziabad, was lured and befriended by a Muslim man from Ujhari. The accused hid his identity and posed as a Dalit Hindu to lure her into a relationship. He promised marriage, and later sexually exploited her, pressured her to convert to Islam and marry him. When she discovered his real identity, she refused the relationship. The perpetrator then insulted her with caste-based slurs and issued threats. According to the Hindu victim, the incident began about a year ago (2025) during a private bus journey when she met the perpetrator, a resident of Ujhari in Amroha. He introduced himself as a Hindu while concealing his real religious identity, gaining her trust. Over time, their contact increased, and he promised marriage, which led to the continuation of the relationship. During this time, the victim was sexually exploited by the Muslim man. At a later stage, the Hindu woman met the perpetrator in Ujhari. During this meeting, he disclosed that he was a Muslim. Upon learning his real religious identity, she refused to marry him. The perpetrator then insulted her using caste-based slurs. He pressured the Hindu woman to convert to his religion and marry him, stating that conversion was required for the marriage to take place. The Hindu woman stated that when she resisted these demands, the perpetrator and his family members threatened her with death. After this confrontation, she left Ujhari and reached the Saidnagri police station, where she submitted a written complaint detailing the concealment of religious identity, the promise of marriage, the pressure to convert, and the threats issued against her. Police officials at Saidnagri police station confirmed receipt of the complaint. An investigation was initiated based on the written application submitted by the Hindu victim. Police stated that the complaint was formally received and that the enquiry remained ongoing. Further legal action would be taken based on findings during the investigation. At the time of writing this report, no public information was released regarding the arrest of the perpetrator at this stage, and the case remained under investigation.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category for this case is "Crimes against women in relationships and other sexual crimes". The sub-category here is "Man pretends to be Hindu". When a non-Hindu man pretends to be a Hindu to deceive a Hindu woman into a relationship, the act is seen as triggered by malafide intentions. In some cases, the woman eventually accepts the man’s original religious identity and converts after the man’s identity is revealed. These cases could be argued as cases of religious brainwashing and a result of the pressure a woman feels after getting into a relationship with a man. The woman, it can be argued, also changed her religious identity because of the stigma she believes she might face if she chooses to walk out of a deceptive relationship. However, for the purpose of documenting hate crimes, the cases in this subcategory are limited to those where there is explicit violence aimed at religious conversion against the wishes of the victim (force-feeding beef, blackmailing with intimate videos, rape on refusal to convert, etc), or if the woman herself complains of the man’s religious deception. In such cases, it is established that the deception of the non-Hindu man had a specific aim of religious conversion or targeting of the victim due to her Hindu religious identity, therefore, making it a religiously motivated hate crime. Another subcategory selected is- Brainwashed and/or Groomed. The tertiary category is- Rape and Sexual assault/harassment. 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’ in order 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 is a crime, for the purpose of 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 a hate crime. Another sub-category this case comes under is "Forced conversion before marriage". The tertiary category here is "Forced to do Nikah". In such cases, a non-Hindu man is in a relationship with a Hindu woman when the pressure to convert her religion begins to manifest. In such cases, typically, two patterns emerge. First, when the relationship is consensual, and the religious identity of the perpetrator is known to the Hindu woman in the relationship, however, at some point during the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts to force the victim to convert her religion and give up her Hindu religious identity. The second is when the woman gets into a marriage with the man pretending to share her faith. Later, when the truth is revealed, the man starts pressuring the woman to convert her religion and give up her religious identity. In both the situations, the methods used to force the victim to convert her religion often revolve around force-feeding beef, forcing her to wear hijab, forcing her to read the Kalma or even pressurizing the victim to do ‘Nikah’, which is marriage under Islamic law, with a prerequisite being conversion to Islam. Cases where a Hindu woman consensually converts to Islam in a relationship will be left out of the hate crime database, even though it could be argued in several cases that the conversion was a result of religious brainwashing. Another sub-category for this case is "Assault or threat upon refusal to convert". When Hindu women are in a relationship with non-Hindu men, there are cases where the woman faces threats or assault after she refuses to convert and change her religious identity owing to pressure/force by the non-Hindu man. Such relationships may be consensual with the religious identity of the non-Hindu man known to the victim. Somewhere along the relationship, the non-Hindu man starts pressurizing the Hindu woman to convert to Islam and upon her refusal, assaults or threatens the victim. Such cases are driven by specific religious motivations and against the religious identity of the victim and are therefore qualified as hate crimes. Cases where the Hindu woman converts to Islam and does not file a complaint about the force or threat, are not considered a part of the hate tracker, even though, it may be argued that the woman was brainwashed or threatened to convert to Islam. Another primary category selected is- Hate Speech against Hindus. The subcategory selected is- Anti-Hindu slurs, mocking faith. Anti-Hindu slurs and the deliberate mocking of the Hindu faith owing to religious animosity involve the usage of derogatory terms, stereotypes, or offensive references to religious practices, symbols, or figures. One of the common anti-Hindu slurs used against Hindus is “cow-worshipper” and “cow piss drinker”. The intention of using this term is to demean and mock Hindus as a group and their religious beliefs since Hindus consider the cow holy. Additionally, some symbols and the slurs attached to them have a historical context that exacerbates the insult, hate, stereotyping, dehumanisation and oppression against Hindus. Cow worship has been used for centuries to denigrate Hindus, insult their faith and oppress Hindus specifically as a religious group. There has been overwhelming documentation about how cow slaughter has been used to persecute Hindus with cow meat being thrown in temples and places of worship. There has also been overwhelming documentation where cow meat (beef) has been force-fed to Hindus to either forcefully convert them to Islam or denigrate their faith. Apart from cow worship, the Swastika – which holds deep religious significance for the Hindus – has also been misinterpreted and distorted to use as a slur against Hindus. Similarly, the worship of the Shivling has been used by supremacist ideologies and religions to denigrate Hindus owing to religious animosity. Such slurs and denigration stem out of inherent animosity and hate towards Hindus and their faith, therefore, it is categorised as hate speech targeted at Hindus specifically owing to their religious identity. In this case, the Dalit Hindu woman from Ghaziabad was deceived into a relationship by a Muslim man from Ujhari who hid his true religious identity and posed as a Dalit Hindu to gain her trust during a bus journey in 2025. After building the relationship with false promises of marriage over time, he pressured her to convert to Islam upon revealing his real faith during a meeting in Ujhari; when she refused, he insulted her with caste-based slurs and issued death threats alongside his family members. Firstly, the perpetrator's act of deception by posing as a Dalit Hindu demonstrated clear bias and malicious intent towards the victim's religion, manipulating her trust through religious concealment to lure her into a vulnerable position she would otherwise have avoided. By hiding his Muslim identity, he exploited her willingness to connect within what she believed was a shared Hindu Dalit background, premeditatedly targeting her religious vulnerability while anticipating that his true faith would repel her. This identity fraud not only violated her right to informed consent in relationships but also constituted a direct assault on her Hindu beliefs. Such calculated religious profiling, where the accused knowingly bypassed her faith-based boundaries, exposed a deeper animosity towards Hindus, reflecting a broader pattern of singling out Hindu women through false pretences often linked to coercion and conversion agendas. Secondly, through deliberate deception, the Dalit Hindu woman endured sexual exploitation by the Muslim perpetrator. This calculated violation extended beyond sexual gratification; he preyed on her trust, cultivated over months of concealed communication, to manoeuvre her into vulnerability, fully aware her Hindu faith would bar such intimacy if his true Muslim identity surfaced earlier. Far from random predation, this targeted exploitation harnessed religious profiling, posing as one of her own to dismantle her defences, revealing a religiously motivated crime steeped in bias against Hindu women, designed to humiliate, dominate, and erode her sacred identity through betrayal and coercion. Thirdly, after the woman discovered the perpetrator’s true identity, he coerced her to convert to Islam and marry him, insisting on conversion as a prerequisite, while his family backed threats against her life when she resisted. This pressure laid bare that his initial deception and relational exploitation served the ultimate goal of religious conversion, stripping her of her Hindu autonomy and forcing an alien faith upon her. Such relentless demands of religious conversion and subsequent marriage violated her fundamental right to practise Hinduism freely and embodied profound hostility towards her religious identity, cementing this as a clear religiously motivated offence. Fourthly, when the Dalit Hindu woman resisted the accused's demands for conversion and marriage upon discovering his true Muslim identity, he and his family unleashed death threats against her, exposing raw religious animosity that transformed resistance into a mortal peril uniquely tied to her Hindu faith. This escalation from coercion to existential threats, vowing to end her life for clinging to her beliefs, stemmed not from mere personal rejection but from profound hatred for her refusal to abandon Hinduism, weaponising threats and violence to punish her religious fidelity. Such targeted intimidation, activated precisely when she upheld her Dalit Hindu identity against their Islamic agenda, embodied a hate crime driven by deep-seated hostility towards Hindus who defy conversion, aiming to terrorise her into submission or silence her defiance forever. Furthermore, the accused showcased his hatred for the victim's Hindu identity by issuing casteist slurs against her. Some might argue that caste-specific slurs targeted her micro-identity within the Dalit section of the Hindu community rather than her broader Hindu faith. However, from the perspective of Abrahamic religions, caste, region, and language serve as secondary traits; religious identity remains the primary driver of the perpetrator's animosity against Hindu victims. In this case, hatred for the victim's Hindu identity fuelled these casteist slurs from the Muslim man, establishing it unequivocally as religious hatred. Given that this case met the parameters of a hate crime, it was added to the hate crime database of the Hinduphobia Tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records the dates of incidents based on when the crime occurred rather than when it was reported by the media. However, in this case, media reports did not state the exact date when the crime occurred. They only stated that the accused lured the victim in 2025, without specifying the precise date. The media reports regarding this incident were published on 23 February 2026. Hence, based on both pieces of information, an indicative incident date of 23 February 2025 was selected. This was recorded for documentation purposes only. In this case, even though reports stated multiple perpetrators behind the crime, including family members of the accused, the total number of perpetrators was not specified. Therefore, the perpetrator count was selected as one, referring to the main Muslim accused only.
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 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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