A junior resident doctor at King George’s Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow, is at the centre of a high-profile case involving allegations of rape on the pretext of marriage, forced religious conversion and illegal abortion, which has now escalated into a major law-and-order and political issue in Uttar Pradesh. The accused, identified as Dr Rameezuddin alias Rameezuddin Nayak, remains absconding, with the probe intensifying after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath personally intervened and directed police to speed up the investigation and ensure justice for the complainant junior doctor.​

The Case Against the Junior Doctor

According to the complaint filed by a woman junior doctor working at KGMU, the accused befriended her after she joined the pathology/cytology department in mid-2025 and gradually entered into a relationship with her on the promise of marriage. She has alleged that over several months he repeatedly established physical relations by assuring that he would marry her, which she now terms sexual assault under deceit and false promises.​

The FIR states that the woman became pregnant around September 2025 and, upon informing the accused, was allegedly given abortion pills by him, leading to a miscarriage without her free and informed consent. The case has been registered under several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), including section 69 for sexual intercourse by deceitful means, section 89 for causing miscarriage without a woman’s consent and section 351 for criminal intimidation, along with provisions of Uttar Pradesh’s anti-conversion law for pressuring her to change religion for marriage.

Allegations of Forced Conversion and Multiple Marriages

The complainant has further alleged that she later came into contact with another woman who identified herself as the accused doctor’s legally wedded wife and said she had converted to Islam before marrying him in February 2025. Reports also suggest that the accused was already married twice, including once to a Hindu woman, a fact he allegedly concealed from the complainant while continuing the relationship with her.​

When the victim insisted on marriage in October, the accused made her conversion to Islam a precondition, pressuring her to change her religion and threatening to tarnish her image when she resisted. Under this psychological pressure, the complainant is said to have consumed an overdose of tablets on 17 December and was admitted to hospital; she has since been treated and is currently staying with her family, according to officials cited in media reports.​

CM Yogi’s Intervention

The matter reached Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath after the victim and her father met him in Lucknow and complained that the accused had not yet been arrested despite the serious allegations. Yogi Adityanath is reported to have listened to the victim’s account in detail and directed senior police officials to expedite the probe, assuring the family that strict action would be taken and that no guilty person would be spared.​

The Chief Minister has also instructed that if any other persons are found complicit in aiding or shielding the accused, action should be initiated against them as well, hinting at the possibility of a wider network or institutional complicity of love jihad (sexual grooming for conversion of girls to Islam) if established during investigation.​

KGMU Administration’s Response and Suspension

Following the registration of the FIR at Chowk police station in Lucknow, the KGMU administration moved quickly to suspend the junior resident doctor pending a detailed internal inquiry. University authorities said that the accused has been barred from clinical and academic duties and that an internal committee had been set up to examine allegations of harassment, sexual exploitation and attempts at religious conversion on campus.​

The vice chancellor constituted a committee under a senior professor, reportedly from the surgery department, to probe not only the specific complaint but also wider allegations that radical activities and coercive conversion attempts were being encouraged in certain sections of the campus. The committee was asked to submit its report within seven days, and by early January its findings were expected to be placed before the vice chancellor to determine further institutional action against the accused and any possible accomplices.​

Demand for STF–ATS Probe and Campus Protests

The National Medicos Organisation (NMO) Lucknow unit has alleged that the case is not an isolated incident but could be part of a larger organized racket of coercive relationships and religious conversion targeting Hindu women in medical campuses. NMO functionaries have demanded that the state government hand over the investigation to specialised agencies like the Special Task Force (STF) and the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), claiming that a comprehensive probe is needed to expose any network, if it exists.​

Legal Framework: Anti‑Conversion and BNS Provisions

The case gains additional gravity because it invokes Uttar Pradesh’s stringent anti-conversion law, officially the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, which criminalises conversion by misrepresentation, coercion, undue influence or marriage-based inducement. Under this law, offences related to forced or fraudulent conversion are non-bailable and can attract imprisonment of up to ten years in certain aggravated circumstances, with higher penalties when the victim is a woman, minor, Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe member.​

Simultaneously, the case is one of the early high-profile matters to proceed under the newly enforced Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code from 2024–25 and introduced specific sections such as BNS 69 for sexual intercourse obtained by deceit and BNS 89 for causing miscarriage without consent. Legal experts note that convictions under these sections, if secured, could carry significant prison terms and create an important precedent for cases involving sexual exploitation on the pretext of marriage and coerced abortions in professional settings like universities and hospitals.​​

Search for Absconding Accused and Next Steps

Police sources quoted in various reports say the accused junior doctor has been on the run since the FIR was lodged and that multiple teams are tracking his possible locations in and outside Lucknow. With pressure mounting from the Chief Minister’s Office and civil society groups, law-enforcement agencies are expected to escalate their efforts, and discussions have reportedly taken place about declaring a monetary reward for information leading to his arrest if he remains absconding.​

Once arrested, the accused is likely to face custodial interrogation about the allegations of rape, concealment of earlier marriages, forced religious conversion, and the circumstances of the alleged abortion, as well as any links with others who may have facilitated or shielded him. The outcome of the KGMU internal committee report, the possible STF–ATS probe, and subsequent court proceedings will shape not only the trajectory of this individual case but also the broader policy and narrative around love jihad, anti-conversion laws and Hindu women’s safety in Uttar Pradesh’s professional institutions.