Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh state minority commission, on Sunday, said that the mass conversion in Agra earlier this month, was ‘an act of fraud and a dubious exercise which has no connection with the serious business of change of faith.’

The four member panel which had visited Agra on Saturday said, “Had not the members of the Hindu community in Agra, particularly those residing in Vednagar where the socalled conversion took place, acted with foresight and humanitarian values, the situation could have taken an ugly turn. Prominent members of the Hindu community said that they did not endorse such conversions.”