Minor Hindu girls lured with gifts, blackmailed into reciting Kalma, embracing Islam; forced to share details of other female friends
Beawar, Rajasthan, India 
15 February, 2025
Case Summary
In Rajasthan's Beawar district, police detained seven Muslim youths for sexually exploiting 4-5 minor Hindu girls and attempting to forcefully convert them to Islam. The accused, as per reports, took obscene photos and videos of the girls and then blackmailed them. The victims were even pressurised to recite Kalma, keep fast, and embrace Islam. The family members of three minor girls reported the matter to the Vijayanagar Police Station and submitted a complaint on February 16, 2025. They stated that the accused had been pressuring their daughters to talk to them. They were given Chinese mobile phones and were even forced to make their underage friends chat with the offenders. "When we inquired from our daughters, we came to know that there is a gang, which includes Sohail Mansuri, Soheb, Arman, Sahil, Luqman, and 10-15 other boys. They also captured photos and videos of underage girls besides our daughters which were then used to blackmail them. The victims were also given false promises of erasing the explicit material if they introduced them to other girls. The accused threatened and pushed the girls to meet with them. They are trapping our daughters in their net. They are luring them by offering small toys and mobiles. The same is happening with other girls in the area as well. They forced them to go to cafes and wear clothes of their choice,” the complainants shared. The complainants added, “We learned that the girls were forced to introduce each other’s friends for physical exploitation by the accused when we spoke with our daughters. They were also threatened with murder if they didn’t comply. We discovered that the girls had identical phones when we got in touch with the families of their friends. Likewise, they have experienced similar ordeal.” Based on the complaints, three FIRs were registered against the accused at Bijai Nagar police station under relevant sections, including rape and POCSO. The accused were identified as Rihan Mohammad (20), son of Jaan Mohammad, resident of Rajnagar Police Station area, Bijainagar, Sohail Manshuri (19), son of Anwar Hussain from Taro ka Kheda Bijainagar, Luqman alias Soheb (20), son of Mohammad Usman of Hurda Road Gulabpura, Arman Pathan (19) son of Kalu Khan, native of Rajnagar Police Station area, Bijainagar, Sahil Qureshi (19) son of Mohammad Sabir from Sajanabad Police Station area, Gulabpura. Two juvenile offenders have also been detained. According to DSP Sajjan Singh, the accused contacted the girls via social media, provided them with Chinese mobile phones, and then sexually exploited them. The victims also reported being blackmailed and pressured into religious conversion. Meanwhile, an inquiry was launched, and a special police team was formed at the circle level. Special informers were appointed, and technical support was utilised to gather crucial details. A rigorous operation was then conducted, leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. Police station in-charge Karan Singh stated that 4-5 minors had come forward, alleging that certain young men gave them mobile phones and later pressured and abused them. Local residents claimed that girls from a private school were targeted and assaulted.
Why it is Hate Crime ?
This case has been added to the Hinduphobia tracker as multiple religious markers clearly establish it as a religiously motivated crime specifically targeting Hindu minor girls. Based on the details, the category under which this case has been placed is- Predatory Proselytisation. Within this, the first sub-category 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. In this subcategory, we would only include cases where the victim was harassed, threatened or coerced to convert. Cases where attempts were made to convert but the victim resisted 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. The second sub-category relevant here is- Conversion/ attempts to convert by inducement. Predatory Proselytisation is not just limited to threat, harassment, force and violence, but it also has contours of stealth. In several cases, the Hindu victim is exploited to convert, with non-Hindus taking advantage of their poverty. In such cases, the Hindu victim who is suffering financially is offered monetary benefits, including lucrative offers for jobs, health treatment, education, etc, to induce the victim into changing his/her religion. In such cases, the religious identity of the victim and the aim to disenfranchise him from his faith form the heart of the crime. Also, taking advantage of and exploiting an individual’s economic vulnerabilities is widely acknowledged as exploitation, forms of which are often penalised by law. Such cases therefore are considered religiously motivated hate crimes since the victim’s religious identity forms the very heart of the crime itself. The third sub-category selected here is- Proselytisation by grooming, brainwashing, manipulation or subtle indoctrination. Within this, there are multiple tertiary categories selected, which are- 'Victims says was brainwashed/groomed', 'Pattern of targeting Hindus', 'Rape and sexual assault/harassment' and 'Conversion of minor'. 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 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 proselytization, such cases are considered religiously motivated hate crimes. This case contains multiple religious indicators that clearly establish it as a crime driven by religious motives, specifically targeting minor Hindu victims. Firstly, the accused lured the minor girls by gifting them mobile phones. Luring someone to convert to a different faith by offering money and inducements is predatory in nature since the extremists manipulate the specific vulnerabilities of disadvantaged and poor Hindus to manipulate them into conversion. This stems from inherent hostility towards the victim's professed faith since Abrahamic faiths believe that any non-adherent to the faith is a subject to be dehumanised till they convert. Such predatory actions stem from doctrinal animosity towards the Hindu faith and its adherents. Secondly, the victims themselves testified that the Muslim perpetrators sexually assaulted them and recorded obscene videos of the minor victims and used them to pressure them to convert to Islam. This was an arm-twisting tactic that the perpetrator adopted to compel the victim to renounce her professed faith and accept Islam. This constitutes a religiously motivated hate crime as such actions are driven by intolerance towards the victim's religious identity and aim to coerce them into abandoning their faith, often accompanied by threats, violence, or other forms of intimidation. Further, the religious angle of the crime became more apparent when the Muslim men forced the girls to read Kalma and follow other Islamic practices like observing fasts. These actions, which were enforced against their will, signify a deliberate effort to force them to abandon their Hindu identity and adopt a different religious practice under duress. Furthermore, the perpetrators threatened and blackmailed minor Hindu girls into persuading their friends to chat with them. This reveals a deliberate pattern in which the Muslim accused specifically targeted the girls based on their religious identity. It is important to mention here that the details of this case reveal that the Hindu victims were minors, indicating a lack of consent and a genuine change of conscience. It is a well-established fact that children are more susceptible to manipulation since they are still developing emotionally, cognitively, and socially. Their brains are not fully matured, making them more vulnerable to influence and less capable of critically evaluating information. Moreover, subtle manipulation tactics can be difficult to detect, especially when employed by trusted authority figures in positions of influence. This makes it challenging for parents, to identify and address instances of religious manipulation. Consequently, cases involving religious manipulation of minors not only represent an infringement on an individual's religious freedom but also demonstrate a calculated strategy of targeting those who are less able to resist or understand the long-term implications of conversion, making it a significant case of religious-motivated hate crime. For all the above reasons, this case has been added to the tracker.
Victim Details
Total Victim
6
Deceased
0
Gender
- Male 0
- Female 5
- Third Gender 0
- Unknown 0
Caste
- SC/ST 0
- OBC 0
- General 0
- Unknown 0
Age Group
- Minor 5
- Adult 0
- Senior Citizen 0
- Unknown 0
Case Status
Arrested
Perpetrators Details
Perpetrators
Muslim Extremists
Perpetrators Range
From 5 to 10
Perpetrators Gender
male
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