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A Daughter of Gwalior Stabbed for Saying No: Conversion Pressure Turns Violent in Madhoganj
FIR reported, with media coverage
- Incident
- 23 October 2026
- Place
- Madhoganj, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- Category
- Conversion pressure or lure
- Reported
- Date not stated
In Madhoganj, Gwalior, a nursing student has alleged that an acquaintance and his associates pressured her to change her religion, threatened to circulate her private photographs and videos, and attacked her with a knife when she refused, leaving her with a neck injury. Police at Madhoganj station have registered a case against three named persons and arrested two of them, and the investigation is ongoing. Birsa Vahini records this incident as one more case in which refusal to convert was met with violence, and stands with every daughter who is threatened for refusing to abandon her faith.
Sources
- Live Hindustan report · News
- News18 Hindi report · News
Corrections
- 26 October 2026. Added a watermarked AI-generated symbolic featured image (a lit diya before a courthouse) to illustrate the record; no facts were changed.
- 26 October 2026. Replaced the featured image with a symbolic illustration that reflects the post subject: a young woman standing firm in refusal, with a diya and a temple, kept non-graphic; no facts were changed.
- 26 October 2026. Replaced the featured image with a standard landscape title card showing the date, place and title of the record; no facts were changed.
- 26 October 2026. Added the title card.
Entered in this record: 26 October 2026
