A fast track court in Uttar Pradesh's Badaun district has awarded a 10 year jail term and a fine of one lakh rupees to a man convicted of kidnapping a woman, holding her hostage, raping her after threatening to kill her daughter, and forcing the family to convert by making them offer namaz. Judge Neha Garg's court found Sakir Hussain, a resident of Risauli village under Bilsi police station, guilty on all counts. The verdict is being described as the first sentence handed down in Badaun under Uttar Pradesh's law against unlawful religious conversion.
How the case came to light
According to police records, a man from a village in the Bilsi area walked into the police station on 27 May and reported that his wife and 10 year old daughter had been lured away by Sakir Hussain. Once the complaint was registered, police teams launched a search operation. About eight days later, as officers moved in to corner him, the accused abandoned the mother and daughter on the roadside and fled the spot. Police later recovered the woman and her daughter safely.
What the woman told the court
In her statement before the court, the woman said the accused took her and her daughter on his motorcycle to a house in the Sidhpura area of Kasganj district, where they were confined for several days. She told the court that Sakir Hussain raped her repeatedly after threatening to kill her daughter, an ordeal that continued for roughly three months. During this period, she said, he forced them to offer namaz every day and pressured them to abandon their religion. She further alleged that meat was forcibly served to them and that the Hindu names inscribed on her hand and her brother's hand were burned off with acid by the accused.
From chargesheet to conviction
Based on her statement, police added charges of rape, wrongful confinement, assault and criminal intimidation to the case already registered, along with sections of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act. Sakir Hussain was arrested and lodged in jail, where he remained through the trial. Police completed their investigation and filed the chargesheet in December 2025, after which the trial opened in February 2026. On Monday, after hearing arguments from both sides, the fast track court convicted Sakir Hussain on all counts and sentenced him to 10 years in prison along with a fine of one lakh rupees.
