Dear Sir/ Mam,
This is Riyaz. Basically I was an Hindu until recently I got converted to Islam. I don't have any Government Documents stating that I got converted to Islam because I only changed my name in the Government Gazette. Now I applied for a Govt. Exam under "Unreserved Category" and as I don't have any documents showing that I belong to Islam, I simply gave my Religion as "NIL". But that Govt., agency's Recruitment Department Officials said that my candidature can't be accepted as specifying my Religion is mandatory. I explained them as per certificates I belong to Hinduism but now I profess Islam and that's the reason why I didn't specify my Religion . I also told them that it's only Unreserved Category. But they said they can't help me.
I don't know what to do. Is it mandatory to specify our religion under General (or) Unreserved Category?