Just days after a minor school-going girl, belonging to the Hindu community, was charred to death by her stalker Shahrukh Hussain, a similar incident has come to light from the same area — Dumka district of Jharkhand.

As per various reports, body of a minor girl, belonging to the tribal community, was found hanging from a tree on Friday morning (2 September).

An India Today report quoted Deputy Inspector General of Police Sudarshan Mandal as saying the girl was raped and murdered. He said a man named Arman Ansari had been arrested.

The report further said that as per her family, the girl lived with her aunt in Dumka, where she came in contact with Ansari.

A Hindustan Times report quoted a senior police officer as saying that Ansari works as a construction labourer.

He said that Ansari has been booked under IPC sections 376 (rape), 302 (murder) and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren tweeted about the case on 3 September, without revealing names of the victim and perpetrator.

He tweeted, “I am deeply saddened by the incident in Dumka. In the said case, the accused has been arrested and I have directed Dumka Police to take strict legal steps to ensure justice. May God give peace to the departed daughter and give strength to the bereaved family to bear this critical time.”

However, Soren kicked up a controversy by an insensitive statement he made on Sunday trivialising the heinous crime.

“Incidents happen. Where do they not occur?" he said, as reported by The Times of India.

Swarajya has reported many cases from India where Hindu women have been targetted by Muslim men for relationships for their religious conversion or sexual exploitation.

This follows a worldwide pattern of such men preying on non-Muslim women as alleged by Hindu, Christian and Sikh communities in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and Sikh and Christian groups in the UK, among others.

Here is a list of some cases where Hindu women have been targetted for conversion or killed for refusing conversion-nikah, as reported by Swarajya from some northern states of India:

• How Sherkhan Met Naina Kaur, Became Obsessed With Her And Murdered Her

• ‘Shot Dead By Tausif For Refusing To Convert And Marry Him’, Nikita Tomar’s Family Hangs Banner Outside House

• Hindu Woman Beheaded For Turning Down Stalker In UP; Accused Was Already In Relationship With Her Mother

• Protests Against ‘Love Jihad’ In Rajasthan After Minor Girl Is Killed By Stalker She Met Through Instagram

• ‘All Political Parties Visited Us, But We Got No Justice,’ Says Family, A Month After Their Daughter Was Allegedly Raped And Killed In UP’s Lakhimpur

• Minor Schoolgirl, A Hindu, Attacked With Blade By Stalker Danish Khan In Jhansi

• ‘Love Jihad Victim’ Shot Six Times After Her Wedding In Haryana, Continues To Battle For Life After Two Weeks

• She Was Called ‘Kaafir Ki Aulaad’: Family Of Hindu Woman Who Committed Suicide A Year After Marrying Muslim Man Tells Court

• ‘She Would Cry For Hours; Never Told Us Why’. Two Years After Her Murder, Ekta Jaswal’s Family Has No Answers To How Saqib Trapped Her

• Three Years Ago, Uma Eloped With Arif. Today, She Is Fighting For Her Life After Being Burnt By Him

• Another ‘Interfaith Love’ Ends Up In Murder: Shamshad Kills Priya And Her Daughter, Buries Bodies In Own House

• Haryana: Man Kills Dalit Woman After She Turns Down His Proposal Of Nikah; Victim Was A Popular Tik Tok Star