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Meanwhile, Lucknow Regional Passport Officer expressed his regret on the incident and assured action against Mishra, who allegedly harassed the couple. 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. "My wife’s turn came before me and as soon as she reached counter C5, an officer named Vikas Mishra started to go through her documents. He asked, 'You have to take the 'pheras' and get converted to our religion, will you do so?" Passport officer Mishra, however, rebutted the allegations of the couple and said that Tanvi had changed her name to Shadiya Hasan at the time of her marriage but in passport column, she wrote her name as Tanvi Seth and that’s why he objected..