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Activists of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) staged a protestation successful Hazratganj, alleging amerciable spiritual conversion activities astatine King George's Medical University (KGMU) and demanding swift and strict enactment against those involved.
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The protestation held connected Friday (January 16, 2026) came a time aft constabulary arrested KGMU intern Mohammad Adil successful an alleged rape and blackmail lawsuit involving a nursing student.
A ample fig of VHP leaders and workers took to the streets, raising slogans specified arsenic "stop emotion jihad" and accusing the authorities of failing to curb what they claimed were suspicious activities connected the KGMU campus.
The protesters urged the Special Task Force (STF), which is probing the case, to expedite the probe and guarantee stringent enactment against the guilty.
Local VHP person Vijay Pratap alleged that the incidents pointed to an organised effort astatine spiritual conversion.
"The efforts of the VHP and the Bajrang Dal workers person led to this revelation. There are much radical down this conspiracy who request to beryllium brought to book," helium told PTI Videos, besides demanding the removal of definite KGMU officials and a broad probe into the full matter.
According to police, Adil, who lived successful a level successful Kaiserbagh, was arrested connected Thursday and sent to jail.
Police said the woman, a nonmigratory of a paying impermanent accommodation successful Aliganj, alleged that Adil befriended her, sexually assaulted her connected the committedness of matrimony and recorded objectionable videos.
When she pressed him to wed her, helium allegedly refused and threatened to circulate the videos connected societal media. An FIR was lodged connected December 29, and her connection was aboriginal recorded earlier a magistrate.
Officials said the allegations are akin successful quality to the larger KGMU intersexual exploitation and alleged spiritual conversion case, but clarified that nary nonstop nexus has been established truthful far.
Police are probing whether Adil had immoderate interaction with Ramizuddin Naik, a inferior nonmigratory doc astatine KGMU who was expelled aft being accused of intersexual exploitation and spiritual conversion and is presently successful jail. Officials said further enactment would beryllium taken if immoderate transportation is found.
Meanwhile, a elder serviceman said the constabulary volition determination to question Naik's custody arsenic portion of its probe into the suspected ringing of organised spiritual conversion successful the authorities capital.
The developments are the latest successful a bid of controversies surrounding KGMU aft Naik was arrested earlier this period connected charges of sexually exploiting a pistillate doc connected the committedness of marriage, forcing her to acquisition an abortion, threatening her and pressuring her to person her religion.
The Uttar Pradesh Police is besides examining the lawsuit arsenic a imaginable organised spiritual conversion racket.
Following the allegations, KGMU decided to expel Naik from the MD people aft an interior inquiry, including a Vishakha Committee report, which prima facie recovered the charges to beryllium true.
The university's vice-chancellor had briefed Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath connected the findings and the enactment taken.
Police person besides questioned a Muslim cleric from Pilibhit successful transportation with the lawsuit and said further probe is underway to ascertain the series of events and the imaginable engagement of different people.
