Hindu minor girl kidnapped, exploited, and forced for conversion and marriage by Muslim man in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh, India 
26 December, 2025
Case Summary
A Hindu minor girl from the Sarai Mamrej area of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, was abducted and subjected to sexual exploitation, religious conversion, and forced Nikah (marriage) by a Muslim man. As per the First Information Report, the accused obtained private images and videos of the girl without her consent and used them to threaten her. She stated that these threats were used to prevent her from communicating freely with her family. The FIR further stated that the girl was taken from her residence and transported outside Uttar Pradesh. She was moved through multiple locations, including Mumbai. During this period, she did not return to her home and remained under the control of the accused. According to the complaint, the woman was converted from Hinduism to Islam while she was away from her family. The FIR also stated that a marriage as per Islamic customs (Nikah) was conducted without her consent. Following the registration of the case, police teams from Sarai Mamrej police station, the Special Operations Group, and the surveillance unit conducted search operations across several locations. The accused was later apprehended near the Janghai railway crossing in Prayagraj. The woman recovered and was placed under protective supervision. Police registered the case under relevant legal provisions related to abduction, sexual exploitation, unlawful religious conversion, and coercion. Further investigation is ongoing.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
The primary category selected is: Predatory Proselytisation. Under this, the selected secondary category is: Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. Under this, the selected tertiary categories are: Rape and sexual assault/harassment, Conversion of minors, Family claims grooming. 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 second subcategory selected is- Harassment, threat, 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 crime qualified as a religiously motivated hate crime because religion was not incidental to the abuse; it was central to the method, purpose and outcome of the offence. The harm extended beyond personal violence and was directed at the victim’s religious identity as a Hindu girl. Firstly, the victim was targeted and controlled in a manner that culminated in the erasure of her Hindu identity. The forced conversion was not an isolated act but followed kidnapping, confinement and sustained intimidation. Religion became the final instrument of domination, used to break her connection with her faith, values and upbringing. Secondly, the forced conversion was followed by a coerced marriage, indicating intent to alter the victim’s religious and social identity permanently. This sequence demonstrated that the objective was not merely control over the woman, but her religious assimilation and separation from her Hindu family and community. Thirdly, the crime relied on religious coercion as a tool of power. Sexual exploitation and blackmail were used to weaken resistance, after which religion was imposed under fear and confinement. This showed hostility towards the victim’s faith and an attempt to subordinate it through force. Fourthly, the impact of the crime extended beyond the individual victim. The act sent a message of fear to the wider Hindu community, reinforcing the idea that religious identity itself could become a basis for targeting, coercion, and erasure. Hate crimes are defined not only by the intent towards the victim but also by the wider social intimidation they create. Finally, the victim was denied her constitutional right to freedom of religion through violence and coercion. When a crime deliberately strips a person of their faith using force, intimidation and confinement, it crosses the threshold from personal crime into religious persecution. Taken together, the deliberate targeting of a Hindu woman, the forced abandonment of her faith, and the use of religious conversion to cement control established this offence as a religiously motivated hate crime, rooted in hostility towards religious identity and aimed at its destruction. This case is thus added to the tracker. Disclaimer: The Hinduphobia Tracker records incident dates based on when the crime occurred, rather than when the media reports it. However, in this case, media reports have not specified the exact date when the victim's ordeal began. Therefore, for documentation purposes, 27th December 2025, the date of media reporting, has been selected as the indicative incident date.
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 1
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
One Person
Perpetrators Gender
male
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