The arrest of Jalaluddin, also known as Chhangur Baba, by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Balrampur has unveiled a deeply troubling and widespread network of forced religious conversions in India. This case, involving a Rs 100 crore Islamic conversion racket, is not an isolated incident. Rather, it is a glaring example of an organized campaign that preys on non-Muslims—especially Hindu girls—through a dangerous mix of romantic deceit, coercion, blackmail, and financial manipulation. This racket operated with clear intentions: to manipulate and convert Hindus to Islam using money and psychological pressure.

While mainstream narratives pushed by certain political and ideological groups portray Love Jihad as a conspiracy theory created by the BJP, the reality emerging from such investigations tells a very different story. There is a documented pattern of systematic targeting of Hindu women through emotional manipulation, false identities, and financial enticement, a trend supported by the actions of Islamist organisations working quietly yet effectively across the country.

The hypocrisy becomes evident when international and Indian media make headlines about a Muslim man being slapped in a Hindu temple for allegedly harassing girls, but remain silent when minor Hindu girls are systematically lured, abused, and forcibly converted. The media's selective outrage obscures the growing threat of religious conversion campaigns which aim not just at individual transformation but demographic manipulation and assertion of religious dominance.

Inside the Multicrore Conversion Syndicate Run by Jalaluddin

On 5th July 2025, the ATS apprehended Jalaluddin, alias Chhangur Baba, and his wife from Gomti Nagar. His arrest is significant, as he was operating a conversion racket that extended across India. With foreign funding reportedly reaching Rs 500 crores, including Rs 200 crores confirmed and Rs 300 crores suspected via Nepal, Jalaluddin’s network was not only vast but dangerously well-funded.

The investigators uncovered more than 100 bank accounts across Nepal’s border districts such as Kathmandu, Nawalparasi, Rupandehi, and Banki. These accounts were receiving money from multiple Islamic countries, indicating an international effort to fund and sustain conversion activities.

The conspiracy wasn’t limited to Jalaluddin alone. His family was equally involved. His son Mehboob and a close associate had already been arrested by ATS in April 2025, following which a broader case was registered against ten individuals including Jalaluddin. He was declared an absconder with a bounty of Rs 50,000 on his head.

Shockingly, Jalaluddin offered financial support to Muslim men to trap Hindu women. These men used Hindu names to conceal their identities and then lured women into relationships. After the women were emotionally entangled or forcibly subdued, Jalaluddin arranged Muslim marriages (Nikaah) and oversaw their conversion. He reportedly traveled around 40 times to Islamic countries, reflecting how central his role was in this entire operation.

Jalaluddin even had a fixed rate card for conversions:

• Rs 15–16 lakh for Brahmin, Sikh, or Kshatriya women

• Rs 10–12 lakh for OBC women

• Rs 8–10 lakh for women from other castes

To promote these ideas further, Jalaluddin authored a book titled ‘Shijra-e-Tayyaba’, which translates to ‘To propagate Islam’.

This network didn’t stop at targeting women. Even Hindu men were on the hit list. A man named Sanchit, employed as a sweeper at Chhangur Baba’s residence, revealed how Jalaluddin harassed him and his family for refusing to convert. The pressure wasn’t limited to emotional threats; Jalaluddin offered Sanchit Rs 5 lakh, a house, and a motorbike to convert. Upon refusal, he was threatened with death.

In another disturbing case, a 15-year-old Hindu girl from Faridabad, Haryana, was lured and abused by her Muslim neighbors Aamir Hussain and Neha Khan, both reportedly linked to Chhangur Peer’s group. The girl was forced to abandon her Hindu identity, made to offer namaz, wear a burqa, consume meat, and her exploitation was filmed for blackmail.

A similar story unfolded in Lucknow, where a Hindu woman named Manvi Sharma fell prey to Meraj Ansari, who posed as Rudra Sharma. After deceiving her into marriage, he took her to Kanpur where she was forcibly converted and married under Jalaluddin’s supervision. Later, she was tortured and blackmailed with obscene videos.

In Balrampur again, a Hindu man named Harjeet faced harassment and blackmail from Chhangur Peer and his associate Abdul Mabdud. Initially lured with job opportunities, Harjeet was later threatened with false legal cases if he didn’t convert. He eventually returned to his faith after escaping their control.

Exploiting the Vulnerable: The 2021 ATS Operation on Differently-Abled Children and Rural Girls

The problem isn’t recent or limited to one region. Back in 2021, the Uttar Pradesh ATS arrested Maulana Mohammed Umar Gautam and Mufti Qazi Jehangir in Delhi for running a mass conversion racket. Their organisation, the Islamic Dawah Centre (IDC), was responsible for converting over 1,000 people to Islam using a mix of inducements—marriage, jobs, money, and mental pressure.

What shocked investigators the most was their targeting of differently-abled children. These children were manipulated into believing that non-Muslims were inferior. The ATS suspected that they were even being prepared for use as suicide bombers, since their chances of being detected or retaliated against were minimal.

The ATS recovered a list containing 31 non-Muslim girls, most of whom were from underprivileged, rural backgrounds. When interrogated, the accused confessed that village girls were easier to manipulate due to limited education and financial need. Jobs and aid were used as bait, and once trapped, the girls were made to convert.

What adds to the gravity of the matter is the source of funding. This racket was allegedly receiving support from Hafiz Saeed, India’s most wanted terrorist and head of Jamaat-ud-Dawah. The Islamic Dawah Centre’s connections reportedly extended to aides of Zakir Naik, the infamous Islamic preacher, and even to Pakistan’s ISI, suggesting a broader geopolitical motive.

The ATS also launched a search for students from the Noida Deaf Society, who had been coerced into conversion in recent years. This reinforced concerns that vulnerable sections of society—especially those with disabilities—were being specifically targeted because they posed less resistance and could be easily controlled.

A Dalit Girl’s Ordeal: Abducted from Prayagraj and Groomed for Extremism in Kerala

In June 2025, a chilling incident unfolded in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, where a 15-year-old Dalit girl was ensnared in a dangerous plot that took her far from her home to Kerala. This young girl, full of dreams and innocence, was lured away from her village in the Phulpur area by two individuals, 19-year-old Kahkasha Bano, also known as Darkasha Bano, and 25-year-old Mohammad Kaif. Their promise was simple but deceptive: a better life filled with opportunities and money. Instead, the girl faced a nightmare of forced religious conversion and coercion into extremist activities.

The truth came to light on June 28, 2025, when the girl’s mother, Guddi Devi, filed a complaint with the police. She revealed that her daughter had been taken by Kahkasha Bano under the pretense of a brighter future. “On June 28, a complaint was lodged at the Police Station Phulpur by Guddi Devi, resident of Lilhat village, in which she informed that on May 8, 19-year-old Bano, daughter of Mohammad Ismail, also a resident of Lilhat, called from an unknown number and threatened to kill her,” said DCP Kuldeep Singh Gunawat, highlighting the severity of the situation. The complaint also detailed how the girl was manipulated at a local wedding, where Bano enticed her with promises and introduced her to Mohammad Kaif, who tragically molested her during their journey.

The girl’s ordeal began on the night of May 8, 2025, at a wedding in her village. Bano, a familiar face from the same community, took her for a walk, only to whisk her away to Prayagraj Railway Junction with Kaif’s help. From there, they traveled to Delhi and then to Thrissur, Kerala, by train. During the journey, Bano was in constant contact with a man named Taj Mohammad, believed to be based in Thrissur, informing him of their progress and the girl’s presence. In Kerala, the girl was taken to a house where she encountered several others, including men with long beards, who pressured her to convert to Islam and spoke of training her for jihad. Her courage shone through as she resisted their demands and eventually escaped, reaching Trichur railway station, where she sought help from the police.

The police investigation revealed a disturbing pattern. DCP Gunawat noted that the suspects were part of a broader network targeting vulnerable girls, particularly from marginalized communities like the Dalits. “From the above mentioned report, it is known that the accused Bano is a part of an organised gang also involved in terrorist and anti-national activities by luring poor and Dalit girls, brainwashing them and forcing them to convert their religion,” he stated. The authorities suspect an inter-state jihadi nexus, with connections to Kerala-based groups that use coercion and inducements to convert young women and groom them for extremist activities. The Prayagraj and Kerala police are now collaborating, forming three specialized teams to dismantle this network and track down Taj Mohammad, who remains a key figure in the investigation. The girl, safely returned to her family, was placed under the care of the One Stop Centre in Prayagraj, but her story underscores the vulnerability of young girls to such predatory schemes.

Sisters Trapped in a Web: Hindu Siblings from Agra Recruited into a Radical Network

In a heartbreaking case from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, two Hindu sisters fell victim to a sinister plot of religious grooming and conversion in June 2025. The elder sister, a student at the prestigious Dayalbagh Educational Institute, was the first to be drawn into this dangerous trap by her friend Saima, a Muslim from Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir. What began as a seemingly innocent friendship turned into a calculated effort to radicalize her, leading her to abandon her family and beliefs. The elder sister’s transformation was so profound that she later influenced her younger sibling, pulling her into the same dark world.

The family’s ordeal began in 2021 when the elder sister, then a bright and ambitious student, disappeared after forming a close bond with Saima. “The family of the victims told police that their elder daughter was so brainwashed by Saima that she disappeared in 2021,” the police report noted. She returned briefly, but the family noticed a stark change in her behavior—she was no longer the person they knew. Instead, she began indoctrinating her younger sister, planting the seeds of radical ideology. On March 25, 2025, both sisters vanished from their home, leaving their parents in anguish and without answers.

Initially, the police were slow to act, as both sisters were adults, but the family’s persistence led to an FIR being filed on May 4, 2025. “On May 4, 2025, an FIR was registered by the police in the case,” the authorities confirmed, marking the start of a deeper investigation. The probe uncovered chilling similarities to cases depicted in the film The Kerala Story, where vulnerable Hindu girls are targeted for conversion and recruitment into extremist networks. The sisters had not only been victims but had become active participants in a jihadist gang, linked to broader networks in Jammu and Kashmir and even ISIS fronts. This case highlighted the devastating impact of organized conversion rackets, which exploit trust and manipulate young minds, tearing families apart and threatening societal harmony.

Unmasking a Conversion Syndicate: Moradabad Couple’s Deceptive Racket Exposed

In September 2024, the Uttar Pradesh police uncovered a disturbing religious conversion racket in Moradabad, orchestrated by a Muslim couple, Mustafa and Hina. Operating under the guise of a sewing and embroidery centre, the couple preyed on Hindu girls and women, using their business as a front to push their agenda of religious conversion. The racket came to light after a courageous Hindu girl lodged a complaint, revealing the couple’s coercive tactics and Mustafa’s heinous actions.

The investigation exposed a pattern of manipulation and abuse. Mustafa, the primary orchestrator, was accused of sexually abusing a Hindu girl and recording the act to blackmail her. “He had also threatened the victim that he would leak her obscene video,” the police report stated, underscoring the extent of his cruelty. Mustafa also pressured his victims to share meals with him, a seemingly innocuous act that carried an underlying intent to assert dominance. “Whenever the Hindu girls and wagons refused to comply, he would keep on insisting and harassing them,” the authorities noted, highlighting his relentless coercion.

The sewing centre, meant to be a place of skill-building and empowerment, was instead a trap where vulnerable women were targeted. The couple’s arrest marked a significant step in dismantling this racket, but it also raised broader concerns about similar operations across the state. The Moradabad case served as a stark reminder of how seemingly benign settings can be exploited to perpetrate organized religious coercion, leaving lasting scars on victims and their families.

The Harsh Reality of The Kerala Story: Hindu Victims’ Struggles Dismissed as Fiction

The phenomenon of “love jihad” and forced conversions has long been a contentious issue, often dismissed by critics as a fabricated narrative. Yet, for countless Hindu and Christian families in Kerala, it is a painful reality that has shattered lives. Organized efforts to convert non-Muslims to Islam through manipulation and coercion have been reported across India, with Kerala emerging as a significant hub for such activities. These efforts, often orchestrated by radical groups, target vulnerable young women, luring them with promises of love or opportunity before subjecting them to exploitation.

In Kerala, Muslim youth, sometimes influenced by religious leaders, have been reported to entice Hindu and Christian girls into relationships, only to push them toward conversion and, in some cases, extremist activities. “Muslim youth in the state often entice Hindu and even Christian females at the urging of their religious leaders,” reports have noted, pointing to a systematic pattern. Many of these women are married, converted to Islam, and then trafficked to conflict zones like Syria and Iraq, where they are exploited as sex slaves or recruited as terrorists. The scale of this issue is staggering, with Kerala identified as a key recruitment ground for ISIS since 2013. The banned terrorist group Popular Front of India (PFI) has been implicated in turning the state into a hotspot for such activities, particularly between 2008 and 2009, when conversions surged.

One of the most notorious cases involved four women from Kerala who joined ISIS in 2016, alongside their husbands. “They were identified as Merrin Jacob Pallath alias Mariyam, Nimisha alias Fathima Isa, Raffaela and Sonia Sebastian alias Ayisha,” according to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Nimisha, originally a Hindu, married Bexin Vincent, an MBA graduate from Palakkad who converted to Islam and took the name Isa. Merrin Jacob, a Christian, married Bexin’s brother, Bestin Vincent, known as Yahiya after his conversion. Sonia Sebastian, also a Christian and an engineering graduate, married Abdul Rashid Abdulla in 2011, who was later identified by the NIA as the mastermind behind this group’s radicalization. Raffaela, another Christian, was married to Ijas Kallukettiya Purayil, a doctor from Kasargod. These women, once full of promise, were drawn into a web of radical ideology, leaving their families devastated.

The NIA’s investigation revealed that Abdul Rashid Abdulla played a central role in indoctrinating and recruiting these individuals, conducting secret classes in Kasargod to promote ISIS ideology. “The NIA identified the architect behind this entire plan as Abdul Rashid Abdulla, a resident of Kasargod, whom Sonia Sebastian married in 2011,” the agency reported. The group’s journey to Afghanistan in 2016 marked a tragic turn, with many of their husbands killed in conflict, leaving the women to surrender to Afghan authorities in 2019.

Despite the evidence, critics often label these stories as “propaganda,” dismissing the lived experiences of victims like Nimisha’s mother, Bindu Sampath, who has tirelessly fought to bring her daughter back. “I used to be known as the mother of an Indian major; now I’m known as the mother of an ISIS terrorist,” Bindu said, capturing the heartbreak of countless families. The dismissal of these realities by some groups only deepens the pain of those affected, while the networks behind these conversions continue to operate, exploiting the vulnerable and challenging the social fabric of communities.

Kerala Emerges as Ground Zero for ISIS Grooming Networks and Radical Islamisation

Kerala, once known for its literacy and progressive values, is now grappling with an uncomfortable truth—a dangerous web of radicalisation and grooming activities targeting non-Muslim women under the cover of religious conversions. The state has been under the scanner for years, but the depth of its radical networks continues to unearth shocking realities.

In July 2016, a woman named Mini Vijayan, a military official, made a heart-wrenching accusation—her daughter Aparna was forcefully converted to Islam. Aparna was tracked to Sathyasarani or Markazul Hidaya Educational and Charitable Trust in Malappuram. Though she later appeared in court and claimed to have willingly converted and married an auto driver named Aashiq from Malappuram, doubts remained. Investigations revealed that literature from Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation was widely used at the centre to brainwash Hindu girls. Zakir Naik, a fugitive Islamic preacher, is notorious for spreading radical ideologies under the guise of religious education.

In another case, a Hindu girl named Nimisha fell prey to this radical web. In 2011, the Kerala police arrested two handlers—Sheena Farzana and Naser—linked to Sathyasarani, a centre now banned for its association with Popular Front of India (PFI), an Islamist extremist outfit. Investigations revealed that Nimisha was one among 21 Hindu girls who were converted to Islam and married to Muslim men recruited by ISIS to serve their jihadi agenda in conflict zones like Yemen.

The extent of this grooming operation became even clearer in 2017, when the National Investigation Agency (NIA) began probing Love Jihad cases linked to ISIS. They discovered that two Hindu girls—Athira and Akhila (later known as Hadiya)—were lured by Sainaba, a PFI worker, who operated in tandem with the Markazul Hidaya trust. During their raid, the agency found documents suggesting that 60 to 70 Hindu and Christian girls were undergoing ‘religious studies’ (read: conversion training) at the institute.

Adding to the list of such shocking cases is the story of Cynthia, a Christian mother from Kerala, who revealed that her daughter Tabitha left her studies in a Gulf country after suddenly declaring her desire to embrace Islam. Tabitha later established a Bahrain-based Islamic outfit called Discover Islam Society. When Cynthia met her daughter, a hijab-clad Tabitha said she could no longer live with non-Muslims.

The trend is not a few isolated events. Official data from 2016 revealed that between 2011 and 2015, 5,975 people in Kerala converted to Islam, with 1,410 conversions recorded in 2015 alone.

Yet, despite these numbers and first-hand accounts, Islamo-leftist groups and so-called secular political parties continue to downplay the crisis, labelling it as fiction or a ‘BJP-RSS conspiracy theory’. In 2023, when the film The Kerala Story exposed the horrors of grooming, brainwashing, rape, and forced conversion, the same ideological cabal lashed out, calling it Hindutva propaganda. But the ground reality, corroborated by multiple cases and national investigations, tells a very different story.

Beawar Grooming Gang: A Disturbing Echo of the UK’s Rape Jihad Epidemic

The shocking abuse of Hindu girls by grooming gangs in India brings back chilling memories of similar cases in the United Kingdom, where Pakistani Muslim gangs systematically raped and exploited non-Muslim girls for decades. The disturbing reality is that this method has now taken root in India, with several such cases uncovered, including one in Beawar, Rajasthan.

Local police in Beawar busted a gang of illiterate Muslim youths—Rehan Mohammad (20), Sohail Mansuri (19), Lukman (20), Arman Pathan (19), Sahil Qureshi (19), and two minors—who had formed a network to trap, rape, and forcibly convert Hindu girls to Islam. These boys were not only committing sexual crimes but also teaching the girls how to perform namaz, observe roza, and recite the Kalma, the Islamic declaration of faith. They pressured their victims to wear burqas, practice Islamic rituals, and mentally prepared them for conversion.

According to a victim’s testimony, these boys would stalk schoolgirls from Bijainagar who were studying in Class 10. They first contacted the girls via mobile phones, then sexually assaulted them, filmed their abuse, and used those videos to blackmail them repeatedly. The girls mentioned that the accused would gift them small mobile phones and arrive in flashy vehicles—Bullet motorcycles and luxury cars—to take them away.

In an eerily familiar tactic also used by Chhangur Baba’s conversion racket, one of the Beawar victims disclosed that "they once told me that a Brahmin girl would fetch ₹20 lakh if sold, and you (a Dalit) would get ₹10 lakh." The same victim further revealed that the gang forced her to approach maulvis and local mosques, encouraging her to bring more girls into the fold.

Beawar is not the only place where such horror stories are emerging. In Rajasthan’s Bhilwara, the police also uncovered a similar grooming jihad operation earlier this year, indicating that this may be a larger, networked system preying on vulnerable Hindu girls in rural and semi-urban India.

Indore Congress Councillor Funded Love Jihad Operations, Paid Muslim Youth to Convert Hindu Girls

In July 2025, a massive controversy shook Indore, Madhya Pradesh, after Congress councillor Anwar Qadri was charged under the National Security Act (NSA). He was accused of being the financial mastermind behind love jihad operations, giving money to Muslim men to trap and convert Hindu women.

According to police reports, Qadri’s name emerged after Muslim men identified him as the person funding their activities. The men admitted that he had paid lakhs of rupees to his henchmen Sahil Sheikh and Altaf Khan to target Hindu girls. Sahil confessed to receiving Rs 2 lakh to marry a Hindu girl, while Altaf admitted he was given Rs 1 lakh. The councillor had reportedly promised to pay them the remaining amount after ‘the work’ was completed. A video showing their confessions soon went viral, creating widespread outrage.

This was not the first time Indore was rocked by a conversion scandal. In 2023, another racket came to light involving a man named Illyas Qureshi. Public anger erupted after reports revealed that an 8-year-old Jain boy had been forcefully circumcised. The accused then produced fake documents claiming the child’s name was Muslim and Qureshi was his biological father. The police said this incident was part of a broader religious conversion racket involving Qureshi.

Western UP: The Long Trail of Rape Jihad, Threats, and Forced Conversions

The situation in Western Uttar Pradesh has been equally grim. Kanpur has emerged as a major hub of forced conversions of Hindu women through fake marriages and identity manipulation. In response to a series of such cases, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed in 2020.

By November 2020, the SIT submitted its report to the Kanpur Range Inspector General. It had probed 14 cases, out of which 11 were found to be criminal cases involving grooming jihad. One case involved Fateh Khan, who posed as Aryan Mehrotra to trap a 14-year-old Hindu girl from Gopal Nagar. He raped her, assaulted her, and threatened to kill her parents if she spoke out. He later forced her to convert and even got her Aadhaar card changed to the name Mariyam Fatima. Fateh Khan was booked under POCSO and other legal provisions.

Another case involved Mohammed Ubais, alias Babu, who posed as a Hindu and trapped a 16-year-old girl with the help of his sister, Mahi Hayat Khan. The duo tried to brainwash the girl into converting to Islam, but she was rescued in time by her mother. Ubais was later arrested and sent to jail.

Several other areas—Naubasta, Govindnagar, Babu Purwa, Chakeri, and Juhi Colony—witnessed similar cases. The SIT found a common pattern across all incidents:

• Establish contact

• Build emotional ties

• Fake religious identity

• Coerce into sexual relations

• Record obscene videos

• Use threats and blackmail to force conversion

The most disturbing part? In 7 out of the 11 criminal cases, the victims were minors.

In a particularly well-known case, a girl named Shalini Yadav went missing and was found after two months, having been converted and renamed Fiza Fatima. She had married a man named Mohammad Faisal and uploaded a video on Facebook declaring her new identity. However, her brother alleged that this was a clear case of love jihad and that a grooming gang was operating from Juhi Colony.

In just two months of 2020, five Hindu girls reportedly eloped with Muslim men from the Kanpur area. Among them were two sisters from Awas Vikas, Kalyanpur, who ran away with accused Shahrukh and another Muslim youth from Juhi Colony. Another case involved two sisters from Panki Ratanpur Colony, who accused Mohammad Mohsin. The younger sister eventually realised the trap and alerted her family.

Beyond Individual Crimes: An Organised Demographic Assault on Hinduism

While these cases are individually horrifying, they are not isolated. They form part of a much larger and structured campaign of religious conversion through coercion and deceit, carried out by Islamist grooming networks and foreign-funded organisations.

The modus operandi remains the same:

• Pretend to be a Hindu or a ‘liberal’ Muslim

• Win trust and lure into a relationship

• Establish sexual relations under false promises

• Record videos to use as blackmail

• Force-feed beef or violate religious practices

• Coerce conversion and marriage

• Silence resistance with either death threats or public shaming

These methods are uniform across the country, from Chhangur Baba’s conversion empire to ISIS-linked Kerala networks. The common thread is exploitation of vulnerable Hindu women and children, often with a clear demographic goal in mind.

While Christian missionaries use material inducements like money, rice, and false promises of healing, Islamic rape jihadis and groomers rely on emotional manipulation, sex, blackmail, and threats. Hindus, therefore, face a two-front war—a slow but calculated attack on their identity, values, and future generations.

Ironically, those who raise their voice against these atrocities are branded ‘Islamophobic’ by the very people who claim to uphold secularism. The Islamo-leftist narrative quickly moves to silence dissent, label victims as ‘exceptions,’ or paint every exposé as propaganda.

But these are not fiction. They are strategic, organised threats backed by funding, ideology, and a support ecosystem. The goal is not just religious conversion but the breakdown of Hindu society and India’s demographic fabric.

India’s secularism is protected by its Hindu majority. If Hindus fall, so does the soul of India. There are countless ‘Chhangur Babas’ hiding in plain sight, operating through political protection, foreign funds, and silence of institutions. The only solution is a nationwide crackdown: expose the funding, destroy the grooming networks, demolish the safe houses, prosecute the criminals, and protect the victims.

This is not just about law and order. It is about civilisational survival.