Overview
- Uttar Pradesh’s Special Task Force has assumed control of the probe and is examining whether the allegations extend beyond individual wrongdoing to an organised unlawful conversion network.
- KGMU’s Vishakha Committee found the resident doctor guilty, and the university has decided he will not be allowed to continue his course, with expulsion recommended to the DGME.
- Police questioned a Pilibhit cleric over an earlier nikah linked to the accused, as STF teams review marriage records, alleged forged documents and other ceremonies he conducted.
- Investigators have recovered the accused’s phone with data deleted and are pursuing forensic analysis while probing alleged contacts with individuals linked to the banned PFI, according to police sources.
- After a campus ruckus during a visit by the state women’s commission vice-chairperson, KGMU staff deferred an OPD shutdown threat to January 14 on the vice chancellor’s assurance that an FIR would be filed, and the chief minister pledged support and security for the university.