PRAYAGRAJ, May 31 -- After intervention by the Allahabad high court earlier this month, the ADM (administration), Prayagraj, has approved the religious conversion application of a Muslim man who voluntarily embraced Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) in 2022. A division bench of Justices Ajit Kumar and Indrajeet Shukla disposed of a petition filed by Anil Pandit (formerly Mohammad Ahashan), an assistant professor in the English department of a constituent college of the Allahabad University, after the ADM in a May 14 order allowed his conversion plea. Advocate Ashish Srivastava appeared for the petitioner. On May 6, the high court had directed the ADM to reconsider the petitioner's application and pass a fresh order. The court asked the authority to consider the first two police inquiry reports, which had concluded that the conversion was voluntary and free from undue influence, along with the court's own interaction with the petitioner and his wife, a Hindu. Granting relief to the couple, the court also directed that the petitioner be allowed to live with his wife with dignity and that the police should not interfere in their lives. The court had ordered the authority concerned to pass a fresh decision within three weeks. The petitioner had submitted a declaration on January 12, 2022, under Section 8 of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, expressing his intention to convert....