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The Lucknow Police on Tuesday, 26 June, sent its report to the Regional Passport office in the city over an incident involving an interfaith couple who were allegedly humiliated by an official. According to the report, the wife, Tanvi Seth, had not been living in Lucknow for past one year but was residing in Noida.
Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar told reporters that according to rules, applicants should be residing at the address filled in the application for at least one year but Seth had not followed the rules.
The couple had alleged that Passport Seva Official Vikas Mishra asked the husband to convert to Hinduism and pulled up the wife for marrying a Muslim when they went there to file passport applications.
The matter came to light when Mohammad Anas Siddiqui and Seth, who have been married for 12 years, wrote about their ordeal on Twitter and tagged External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on 20 June.
A day later, the Regional Passport Office in Lucknow transferred Mishra and issued passports to the couple.
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