Inter-faith couple harassed at Lucknow passport office, asked to change religion

An inter-faith couple, who had applied for passports, was allegedly harassed by an official at the passport office in Lucknow and asked to change his religion and take 'pheras', before rejecting their application. Mohammad Anas Siddiqui, who married Tanvi Seth in 2007 in Lucknow and has a six-year-old daughter, later tweeted their ordeal to Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and saught her intervention in the matter.