A junior resident doctor at Lucknow’s King George’s Medical University (KGMU) who alleged sexual exploitation, blackmail and forced religious conversion (love jihad or sexual grooming) has now been ordered to stay in the university hostel under round‑the‑clock security, even as police investigation, internal inquiries and campus protests intensify. The accused Muslim resident doctor in the Pathology Department has been suspended, barred from entering the campus without permission, and booked under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Uttar Pradesh’s anti‑conversion law.

Victim shifted to hostel with security

KGMU’s Chief Proctor Professor R.A.S. Kushwaha has issued written orders making it mandatory for the junior resident to reside in the university hostel instead of her earlier rented accommodation in Thakurganj, citing concerns for her safety while commuting. A female security guard has been deployed specifically for her, tasked with accompanying the doctor between the hostel and her department and providing protection at the hostel premises.​

University spokesperson Dr K.K. Singh stated that the administration has prioritized the woman doctor’s security by allotting her a hostel room and stationing female security personnel there, as the case involves serious allegations of sexual exploitation and coercion for religious conversion. Copies of the Chief Proctor’s order have been marked to the Registrar, the head of the Vishakha Committee, the Vice‑Chancellor’s private secretary and the security staff to ensure compliance and monitoring.​

Allegations of sexual exploitation and forced conversion

According to the detailed complaint, the accused resident doctor, identified as Rameezuddin (also reported as Ramiz/Rameezuddin Naik), befriended his Hindu colleague after she joined the Cytology/Pathology Department on 1 July 2025 and gradually drew her into a relationship on the promise of marriage. The woman has alleged that he established physical relations with her repeatedly over around six months by assuring marriage, concealed that he was already married twice—including once to a Hindu woman—and later made her religious conversion to Islam a precondition for marriage.​​

In her statement, the doctor has accused him of terminating a pregnancy through medication in September after she informed him she had conceived, saying it was not right as they were not yet married. She further claims he blackmailed her with objectionable photos and videos, threatened to make them viral if she refused to convert, and continued harassment even after she began distancing herself from him.​

Suicide attempt and criminal case

The prolonged pressure and alleged blackmail reportedly drove the junior resident to attempt suicide by consuming a large quantity of psychiatric medicines on 17 December in her hostel/rented room, after which she was admitted in critical condition to the KGMU Trauma Centre and later shifted to the Critical Care Medicine ICU. She was discharged on 19 December, following which her family approached the State Women’s Commission and other grievance platforms, alleging that she had been facing continuous pressure to remain silent and not file any complaint.​​

On 23 December, an FIR was registered at Chowk police station on the basis of a complaint from the victim’s mother, invoking sections 69, 89 and 351(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita along with sections 3 and 5(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Act, which deal with unlawful religious conversion and related offences. Investigating officer Inspector Nagesh Upadhyay has stated that the police will record the victim’s statement before a magistrate, conduct a medical examination and proceed further on the basis of these reports; the accused is currently absconding and being searched for by a dedicated police team.​

Vishakha Committee probe and KGMU action

Following directions from Vice‑Chancellor Professor Sonia Nityanand, the matter has been placed before KGMU’s Vishakha Committee, which handles sexual harassment complaints, and has begun recording the statements of the victim and the accused. The accused appeared before the committee earlier and claimed he was unmarried, denying the allegations of prior marriages, and was asked to produce evidence, but later failed to respond to the committee’s summons on 23 December, with his phone switched off and no reply to repeated calls and messages.

Pending the inquiry, KGMU has suspended the accused doctor and prohibited him from entering the university premises without written permission, allowing him to come only for inquiry proceedings; he has been directed to remain at KGMU headquarters during the suspension but without any official responsibilities. Dr K.K. Singh has indicated that a preliminary internal investigation will verify the allegations and then expand to identify any collaborators or others aware of the alleged exploitation and conversion attempts on campus.

CM Yogi’s intervention and Women’s Commission support

The victim has either met or spoken directly with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to narrate her ordeal, informing him that, in her view, the accused was not acting alone but was leading a conversion gang or racket on the KGMU campus. CM Yogi has sought a detailed report from the university administration and assured that those found guilty would not be spared, signaling high‑level political and administrative attention to the case.

The doctor has also held a press conference alongside Aparna Yadav, vice‑chairperson of the State Women’s Commission, where the commission announced that letters had been sent to KGMU authorities and the police urging prompt action and a thorough probe. The commission has promised the victim legal aid and psychological support at every stage of the proceedings and emphasized the need to examine whether the alleged conduct points to an organized conversion racket with wider motives.

Love jihad angle and prior alleged conversion

The victim and her family have characterized the case as a classic instance of “love jihad, alleging that the accused targeted a Hindu woman, hid his marital status and religious background, and used emotional manipulation and threats to push for religious conversion as a condition for marriage. The woman discovered in September that he had already converted another Hindu girl to Islam and married her earlier in February 2025, after meeting the other woman—identified as Mansi Saxena—near Batul Plaza in Thakurganj, who introduced herself as his wife.​​

After confronting him, the victim alleges that he continued maintaining contact with his other wife while pressuring her to convert and marry him, intensifying the psychological stress she reported. Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Nandkishore Gurjar has publicly termed the incident a love jihad case and demanded that the National Security Act be invoked against the accused, reflecting a growing political framing of such inter‑faith exploitation cases under love jihad.​

Campus protests and demands for harsher action

The KGMU episode has triggered protests on campus by organisations including the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), National Medicos Organisation (NMO) and others, who have staged demonstrations demanding exemplary punishment for the accused and stronger safeguards for female students. On 24 December, a confrontation reportedly took place between NMO representatives and university authorities during protests, though security personnel intervened to restore order.

NMO’s metropolitan convener Dr Shivam Krishnan and organizing secretary Dr Kapil Sharma have met the Vice‑Chancellor seeking revocation of the accused doctor’s degree and a recommendation to cancel his NEET‑PG admission, while also calling for identification of any faculty members in the Pathology Department who may have shielded or supported him. These demands come amid heightened public concern over professional ethics and patient safety when serious allegations of sexual crimes and coercion emerge from a premier medical institution.

Wider context: love jihad and women’s safety

The Lucknow incident adds to a growing list of reported cases in recent years where families or victims have alleged deceptive relationships, concealed identities and coercive religious conversion as part of love jihad patterns, particularly involving Hindu women and Muslim men. A 2024 recap by one monitoring organization recorded around 200 love jihad cases reported in the year 2024 across Bharat.

​The KGMU incident underscores the urgent imperative to safeguard Hindu women from insidious grooming networks masquerading as romantic overtures, where deception, blackmail, and coerced conversion erode personal agency and communal fabric. These patterns demand vigilant enforcement of Uttar Pradesh’s anti-conversion laws, robust campus vigilance committees, and community awareness drives to dismantle such rackets before they inflict irreversible trauma. Protecting Hindu daughters from these predatory traps is not merely a matter of individual justice but a cornerstone of preserving cultural continuity and national integrity amid rising interfaith exploitation threats.