Young Hindu man threatened to embrace Islam in Ghaziabad, Hindu family asked to leave the area
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India 
30 November, 2023
Case Summary
In Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, a Hindu woman filed a complaint against her Muslim neighbours for pressuring her family to convert. The Muslim family wanted her son to embrace Islam and marry their daughter. They resorted to physical violence, threatening her son and even mentioning false rape accusations. The situation escalated to fights inside their home, with the ultimatum to leave if they refused to comply. The police registered an FIR on December 1, 2023, and initiated an investigation. The incident occurred in the Vijay Nagar police station area. Babita, residing in Pratap Vihar, lodged the complaint. She described how Salim, his son Sufiyan, and his wife Naija harassed her son Aman daily, insisting he convert to Islam and marry their daughter.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
Because of the case's specifics, we have put this case under the prime category: Predatory Proselytization and to narrow down the search further we have chosen the sub-category 'attempting to convert by harassment/threat' under this core category. 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 have 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 and forceful circumcision. 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 in an attempt to make the Hindu victim abandon his/her professed religion and adopt the religion of the perpetrator. In this sub-category, we would include cases where the non-Hindu perpetrator harassed, threatened or coerced the victim to convert, however, the Hindu victim did not convert to another faith. Cases where the victim was converted owing to the harassment and threats would be documented in another sub-category. 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 is a distinct case of religiously motivated hate crime as the Muslim perpetrator employed threat and coercion to attempt to get the Hindu victim to give up his professed faith and accept Islam, an alien faith for him. The victim's family testified that to pressure him into conversion, the accused threatened the victim with a false rape case. The details of the case make it evident that the crime was perpetrated with a specific intention to alienate the victims from their Hindu identity, while also harbouring a bias against the Hindu faith, hence this case has been classified as a religiously motivated hate crime under Predatory Proselytisation.
Victim Details
Total Victim
1
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 1
- Female 0
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 1
Age Group
- Minor 0
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 1
Case Status
Complaint filed
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 2 To 5
Perpetrators Gender
both
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