Hindu woman harassed, threatened and blackmailed for religious conversion by Muslim men in Panipat, Haryana

Case ID : d327b79 | Location : Panipat, Haryana, India | Date of Incident : Tue, 3 March, 2026

Case ID : d327b79

Panipat, Haryana, India

3 March, 2026

Hindu woman harassed, threatened and blackmailed for religious conversion by Muslim men in Panipat, Haryana

Predatory Proselytisation

Harassment, threats, coercion for conversion

Case Summary

In the Sanauli police station area of Panipat district, Haryana, a 22-year-old Hindu woman was harassed, stalked, threatened, and blackmailed to convert to Islam by three Muslim men, namely Munshad, Ankur, and Aman. The Hinduphobia Tracker contacted the police in this case. The police confirmed that the victim was a Hindu woman. According to media reports, the incident came to light when the victim filed a written complaint with the Sanauli police station, demanding protection and legal action. Upon receiving the complaint, the police registered a case against the three named Muslim accused and initiated further action. According to the complaint, the victim from a village in Sanauli stated she worked as a labourer and went to the fields. During this time, three young Muslim men from the village, Munshad, Ankur, and Aman, often followed and harassed her. The victim stated that the accused pressured her to speak to them on the phone. If she refused, they threatened to make her old recordings, photos, and videos viral. The complaint stated that the accused also threatened to kill her and her relatives. The accused also pressured the Hindu victim to convert to Islam and threatened her with dire consequences if she refused. Meanwhile, Sanauli police station confirmed the registration of a case and began investigating the matter. Police stated that the accusations would be investigated impartially and appropriate legal action would be taken.

Why it is Hate Crime ?

The primary category selected in this case is- Predatory Proselytisation. The 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. This case constitutes a clear instance of a religiously motivated hate crime, where three Muslim men, Munshad, Ankur, and Aman, followed, harassed, and stalked a 22-year-old Hindu woman in Sanauli, Panipat district, Haryana, before pressuring her to speak with them on the phone and blackmailing her with old recordings, photos, and videos to convert to Islam. This relentless pursuit and coercion for conversion directly violated her religious autonomy and fundamental right to practise Hinduism freely, as enshrined in constitutional protections, transforming a personal violation into an assault on her Hindu identity. Pressuring a Hindu individual to abandon her faith for Islam was not merely a change of belief but a deliberate attempt by the perpetrators to strip her of her religious and cultural heritage, spiritual practices, and community ties, exposing their deep religious animosity towards Hinduism and marking it unequivocally as a hate crime driven by Islamic supremacist motives. The perpetrators employed continuous harassment, stalking, severe threats, and blackmail as calculated tactics to enforce religious conversion, each element underscoring their hostility towards her Hindu identity. Stalking and harassment in the fields where she worked as a labourer served to isolate and intimidate her, signalling that her mere existence as a Hindu woman provoked their aggression and warranted subjugation. Threatening to kill her and her relatives if she refused conversion revealed a willingness to eliminate Hindu lives to impose Islam, showcasing raw religious animosity that treated her faith as a threat deserving violent eradication. Furthermore, blackmailing her with photos, videos, and old recordings represented a sinister weaponisation of her personal vulnerability, designed to degrade and dismantle her Hindu selfhood by stripping away her dignity and autonomy as a Hindu woman. This calculated extortion went beyond mere manipulation; it sought to humiliate her into submission, leveraging compromising material gathered through prior harassment to coerce conversion, thereby erasing her spiritual connection to Hindu rituals, festivals, and family traditions under threat of public exposure and ruin. All these techniques converged in a systematic campaign to strip the victim of her Hindu identity, replacing it with forced Islam through terror and isolation that meets every parameter of religiously motivated hate crime. This multi-pronged assault exposed the perpetrators' profound religious animosity, treating her faith not as a private choice but as an inferior target for conquest and annihilation. Therefore, this case has been added to the Hinduphobia Tracker's hate crime database. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurs, not when it is reported by the media. In this case, media reports do not specify the exact date when the victim's ordeal began. Therefore, the date of the earliest media report, 4 March 2026, has been selected as the indicative incident date. This is recorded for documentation purposes only.