King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow has decided to initiate an inquiry into a report by the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Special Task Force (STF) that raised allegations of staff members being harassed and, in some cases, being coerced to convert by their colleagues and seniors from the minority community.

The STF had launched an inquiry following claims about alleged religious conversion and “love jihad” that emerged last year. The Lucknow police had in January arrested Rameezuddin alias Rameez Malik, a junior resident in the university’s Department of Pathology, and a medical intern in two separate cases.

Rameezuddin, who was arrested in Lucknow on January 9, faces allegations of sexually exploiting and trying to convert two women.…