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ABDUCTED · FORCED CONVERSION · RAPED · ABANDONED · ERASED · SILENCED · ABDUCTED · FORCED CONVERSION · RAPED ·
NO POLICE · NO JUSTICE · NO VOICE · NO PROTECTION · NO HEADLINES · NO JUSTICE ·
SHANTI · RADHA · CHANDA · KAREENA · ANJALI · HANSRAJ'S DAUGHTERS · DIPU DAS ·
SINDH · PAKISTAN · 1947 — PRESENT · ONGOING · DOCUMENTED · UNREPORTED ·
14,000+ IN 12 YEARS · 47 IN 2024 ALONE · THEY HAVE NAMES · REMEMBER THEM ·

An ongoing genocide no one is talking about

Every Day,
A Hindu Girl Is Taken.

In Pakistan's Sindh, Hindu daughters are abducted from their homes, forcibly converted to Islam, raped, and handed to their captors by courts. The police laugh. The world says nothing.

14,000+
Girls forcibly converted
in 12 years
47
Hindu women abducted
in 2024 alone
≈ 0
Abductors convicted
by Pakistani courts
3.9M
Hindus left in Pakistan —
and falling
Their Stories
12
Years of documented
forced conversions
~0
FIRs accepted
by Sindh police
1947
When the persecution
formally began
∞
Families still
living in terror
Rescued Pakistani Hindu families
Rescued families · Jaisalmer camp
Pakistani Hindu orphans being educated
Education at the camp
Rescued Hindu orphans receiving food
Daily meals for orphaned children
Hindu widows receiving support
Supporting Hindu widows

The Crisis

How It Works:
The Anatomy of an Abduction

This is not random violence. It is a system — one that relies on the complicity of police, courts, and clerics to function. Hindus in Sindh are predominantly Dalit landless laborers, too poor and isolated to resist. Their daughters are uniquely vulnerable.

01
The Abduction
A girl — often between 12 and 16 — is taken from her home, school, or street. Sometimes in daylight. Sometimes at gunpoint. Her abductor is typically a local Muslim man backed by feudal or extremist networks. The family is powerless to stop it.
02
The Coerced Conversion
Within days, the girl is presented as a willing convert to Islam. A cleric certifies it. A video is recorded — usually under threats of violence against her or her family. This "consent" will later be used in court to defeat any challenge to her abduction.
03
Police Refusal & Court Betrayal
When the family files a report, police often refuse to register a First Information Report. If the case reaches court, judges frequently accept the fabricated conversion as legitimate and hand the girl back to her captor — even when she is a minor.
04
Silence Through Terror
Abductors routinely film sexual assaults and threaten to share footage unless families stay silent. Those who protest face violence, social ostracism, and further targeting. The result: most cases are never reported, and perpetrators face no consequences.

Documented Cases

They Are Not Statistics.
They Have Names.

These are real, verified cases drawn from court records, activist reports, and on-ground documentation. Each represents hundreds more that were never reported.

Pakistani Hindu families at the Jaisalmer refugee camp
Featured Rescue · January 2024 · Sindh, Pakistan
The Father Who Buried His Daughters Underground Every Night to Keep Them Alive
Hansraj was a Hindu man living in Sindh, Pakistan. In September 2023, a local Maulvi arrived at his home and declared his intentions: he would forcibly convert Hansraj's 14-year-old daughter to Islam and take her as his wife.

With no police willing to help and no neighbors who dared intervene, Hansraj fled his village with his two daughters and hid in a remote location. Each night, to protect them from abductors who moved through the darkness, he dug a three-foot pit, placed his daughters inside, and covered it with a cage. His children slept in the ground like animals — because above the ground, they were prey.

He found Nikhil Chandwani on Instagram and sent a desperate message. Within days, Nikhil's on-ground team in Sindh relocated the family to a Hindu-majority town, funded their accommodation, and arranged their Indian visa applications. Nikhil was simultaneously arranging construction of a home in India to receive them.

Today, those girls chant the Hanuman Chalisa every Saturday — something they were never allowed to do in Pakistan.
Family safely rescued and resettled in India
October 2023 · Khipro, Sanghar District, Sindh
Shanti Meghwar — Abducted, Raped, Threatened Into Silence
13-year-old Shanti Meghwar was kidnapped by Nazir Kumbar from her village. When she refused to convert to Islam, she was raped. Her abductor filmed the assault and threatened to kill her family if she spoke out. She managed to escape, returned home, and with her parents filed a complaint at a Hindu activist's office. Her abductor was ultimately arrested — but not before months of blackmail and trauma. Her case exposed a recurring pattern: abductors record their crimes to use as coercion weapons against the victim and her family.
Case filed · abductor arrested
October 2023 · Tando Mohammad Khan, Sindh
Radha Meghwar — 13 Years Old, Taken in the Night
On October 8, 2023, Radha Meghwar — approximately 13 years old — was forcibly abducted from her family in the village of Sarhandi Abad. Her parents filed a report and organized a public protest outside the local police station. Her mother, sobbing before cameras, asked simply: "Why are our daughters being taken and converted to Islam?" Police did not act with urgency. The family's anguish spread online, but Radha's fate remained uncertain for weeks. Her case is among hundreds that receive no institutional support.
Status uncertain at time of reporting
2023 · Hyderabad, Sindh
Chanda — Court Hands Her Back to Her Rapist
Chanda, a Hindu girl from Hyderabad, was abducted by Shaman Magsi. She testified before a court that she had been forced to convert to Islam, forcibly married to her abductor, and raped. The court, rather than freeing her, initially handed her back to Magsi. Only after authorities confirmed she was a minor was she placed in a shelter home — while her rapist faced no criminal charge for the assault. Her case is a direct illustration of how Pakistani courts actively re-victimize Hindu girls.
Sent to shelter home — abductor not charged with rape
2022 · Sukkur, Sindh
Anjali Kumari — 12-Year-Old Daughter of a Teacher
Anjali Kumari, 12, daughter of a schoolteacher, disappeared in late October from Sukkur. Her family maintained she had been kidnapped and forcibly converted. A cleric, groom, and six witnesses were eventually arrested under Pakistan's child marriage act — but the case dragged through courts for months, sparking protests in Sukkur and Daharki. The community that took her insisted the conversion was consensual. Anjali's voice was the last thing anyone consulted.
Case in Sindh High Court
2019 · Ghotki, Sindh
The Two Sisters — International Outrage, No Justice
Two teenage Hindu sisters from Ghotki were allegedly abducted, forcibly converted, and married to Muslim men. Their father said they were taken. A video emerged of the girls claiming they converted willingly — a claim their family rejected as made under extreme duress. The case reached Pakistan's Supreme Court, triggered a diplomatic clash between India and Pakistan, and prompted then-PM Imran Khan to order an investigation. Seven men were arrested. No convictions followed. The system that enabled the crime remained untouched.
Case reached Supreme Court · no convictions
December 2022 · Sinjhoro, Sindh
A 40-Year-Old Mother — Beheaded
A 40-year-old Hindu woman was brutally murdered in Sinjhoro town. She was beheaded. The violence against Sindhi Hindus is not limited to young girls — it extends to mothers, to families, to entire communities. This case received almost no international media coverage. No perpetrator was publicly convicted.
No conviction on record

Pakistan must bring perpetrators to justice, enforce existing legal protections against abduction and trafficking of minority girls, and uphold the country's international human rights obligations.

— United Nations Human Rights Experts · January 2023

The Man Who Answered

While Governments Failed,
One Man Acted.

Nikhil Chandwani
Nikhil Chandwani
Industrialist · Author · Activist
Based in
Nagpur, India
Active since
2017 — nearly a decade
Funding
90% self-funded via Santerra Industries (biomass pellets, Nagpur)
Rescued
9,300+ Hindu & Sikh families
Ground team
500+ Hindus operating covertly inside Sindh
Author
13 books · TEDx speaker
Award
Rashtriya Gaurav Award 2019 (Indian National Award)
Charity
NCA's Welfare Foundation via Razorpay

In 2017, a desperate Instagram message landed in Nikhil Chandwani's inbox. A Hindu shopkeeper in Sindh, Pakistan — his daughter being stalked by local extremists, a forced conversion imminent. He had tried the police. They laughed. His neighbors said nothing. So he turned to a stranger on social media. That stranger answered.

Nikhil is not a politician. He runs no government program. He is a Nagpur-based entrepreneur whose company, Santerra Industries, manufactures biomass pellets — converting agricultural waste into clean energy. He uses 90% of those profits to bring human beings back from persecution.

"We turn farm waste into energy. I use that energy to bring our people back from hell."

Over nearly a decade, he has built a covert rescue network: 500+ Hindu activists operating inside Sindh at great personal risk — identifying threatened families, securing documents, coordinating safe movement across borders. Indian lawyers handle legal status. Doctors treat trauma. Every rescue is fully funded: passports, visas, transport, temporary housing, and long-term rehabilitation.

He has received death threats. Online fatwas have been issued against him. He has never stepped back. "The moment a rescued person begins to smile again — the moment they start dreaming again — you realise the fight is worth it."

His long-term vision: a permanent rehabilitation settlement for rescued families — homes, schools, clinics, community halls, and temples. A place, as he puts it, where "no one knocks on your door in the middle of the night to take your daughter away."

2017
The First Message
A shopkeeper's Instagram DM changes everything. Nikhil funds a family's escape. "This can't stop with just one family. There are thousands more."
2019–2022
The Network Grows
500+ covert Hindu activists recruited across Sindh. Lawyers, doctors, and landlords form a quiet support system. Over 100 families rescued annually.
January 2024
The Hansraj Rescue
The story of a father hiding daughters in a pit shocks India. Nikhil's quiet work gains national and international attention for the first time.
2025
9,300 Families Rescued
Two refugee camps in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan house and educate 2,000 Pakistani Hindu orphans. 177 widows receive monthly financial support. ₹25 lakh spent on camp upgrades — 90% from Nikhil's own funds.
2026
First Temple in Bangladesh Since 1947
Nikhil funds construction of a Hindu temple in the Chittagong Hill Tracts — the first since partition. Monthly rations reach 2,000 Bangladeshi Hindu families whose breadwinners were killed by Islamists.
Pakistani Hindu families rescued by Nikhil Chandwani
9,300+ families rescued since 2017
Ganesh Chaturthi celebration at Jaisalmer camp
Ganesh Chaturthi at the camp
Hindu women rescued from Pakistan
Rescued women — restored dignity
Children at the Jaisalmer Hindu refugee camp
Children at the Jaisalmer camp
Bangladesh Hindu family receiving support
Bangladesh — monthly ration support

In His Own Words

This can't stop with just one family. There are thousands more.
— Nikhil Chandwani · on rescuing his first family, 2017
We turn farm waste into energy. I use that energy to bring our people back from hell.
— Nikhil Chandwani · on funding his rescue operations
A safe place where no one knocks on your door in the middle of the night to take your daughter away. Where your children aren't punished for praying to Ram.
— Nikhil Chandwani · on his vision for a permanent resettlement center
The moment a rescued person begins to smile again — the moment they start dreaming again — you realise the fight is worth it.
— Nikhil Chandwani

Documented Impact

What One Man and 500 Volunteers
Have Built

No government funding. No corporate grants. No NGO. A biomass pellet factory in Nagpur, 500 brave volunteers inside Pakistan, and an unshakeable conviction that every Hindu life matters.

🏠
9,300+
Families Rescued
Hindu and Sikh families extracted from Pakistan and relocated to safety in India — passports, visas, and travel fully funded.
👧
2,000
Orphans Fed & Educated
Pakistani Hindu orphans — whose parents were murdered by Islamists — receive daily meals, schooling, clothing, and medical care at camps in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
⚖️
200+
Sikh Minorities Saved
Sikh families facing identical persecution in Sindh rescued and resettled alongside Hindu families.
💐
60
Marriages Sponsored
Rescued Pakistani Hindu women whose families lost everything had their marriages fully funded — with proper Hindu rituals, no debt, no compromise.
🕊️
177
Widows Supported
Hindu widows who lost their husbands to Islamist violence in Pakistan and Bangladesh receive monthly financial assistance for themselves and their children's education.
🛕
2
Temples Built / Rebuilt
Including the first new Hindu temple in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts since 1947 — restoring a community's right to pray openly.
🍚
2,000
Bangladeshi Families Fed Monthly
Families who lost their breadwinners to Islamist attacks in Bangladesh receive monthly rations — including the family of Dipu Das, burnt alive.
📚
10
Dedicated Teachers
A permanent teaching team provides structured daily education to 2,000 rescued orphans — literacy, discipline, and a future.
🌏
500+
Ground Team in Pakistan
Brave Hindu activists operating covertly inside Sindh — identifying at-risk families, coordinating rescues, and risking their own lives daily.

Active Projects

The Work
Continues Every Day

🆘
Emergency Rescue Operations — Pakistan
When a family reaches out — by Instagram DM, by phone, through any means available — a clock starts. Nikhil's on-ground team in Sindh mobilizes immediately. Every rescue covers passports, visa fees, cross-border travel, initial housing, and legal documentation. The entire process is funded end-to-end, at no cost to the family. 30% of those rescued are survivors of sexual violence.
Pakistani Hindu family after rescue
🏕️
Two Refugee Camps in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
Two active refugee camps house and educate 2,000 Pakistani Hindu orphans — children whose parents were murdered by Islamists and who arrived in India with nothing. Camps provide twice-daily meals, structured schooling, medical care, psychological support, and monthly Hindu festival celebrations that restore identity and dignity. In 2026, Nikhil spent ₹25 lakh of his own money upgrading the facilities with proper rooms, a library, and clean bathrooms.
Pakistani Hindu orphans being educated at Jaisalmer camp
💛
Support for Hindu Widows
177 Hindu widows who lost their husbands to Islamist attacks in Pakistan and Bangladesh receive sustained monthly financial support — covering food, housing, healthcare, and their children's school fees, uniforms, books, and tuition. This is long-term rehabilitation, not one-time charity.
🍛
Monthly Rations — 2,000 Bangladeshi Hindu Families
Following the wave of Islamist attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, approximately 2,000 families whose breadwinners were killed or displaced receive monthly ration support to survive. Among those supported: the family of Dipu Das, who was burnt alive. His wife and children now receive sustained care for food, education, and stability.
Bangladesh Hindu family receiving monthly ration support
🛕
Temple Construction — Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Nikhil has funded and is constructing a Hindu temple for Tripura tribal Hindus in the Khagrachhari region of Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts — the first new Hindu temple there since 1947. For a community that had been displaced, silenced, and pushed to the margins for generations, this is not just a building. It is the restoration of a right to exist.
💐
Sponsoring Marriages for Rescued Hindu Women
60 marriages of rescued Pakistani Hindu women have been fully funded — covering all essential costs and ensuring rituals are performed according to Hindu traditions, with no debt, no compromise, and no exploitation. For displaced families stripped of their social networks and financial stability, this restores a life milestone that persecution tried to permanently erase.
🎉
Hindu Festival Celebrations at the Camps
Every major Hindu festival — Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri, Diwali, Ram Navami, Holi — is celebrated at the Jaisalmer refugee camps. For children and families who were forbidden from practicing their faith in Pakistan, these are not parties. They are acts of reclaiming identity. The camps are not shelters — they are living communities where culture, faith, and belonging are actively preserved.
Ganesh Chaturthi festival celebration at Jaisalmer refugee camp

The moment a rescued person begins to smile again — the moment they start dreaming again — you realise the fight is worth it.

— Nikhil Chandwani · Nagpur, India