The PhD scholar is covering a distance of over 200km on foot to reach the apex court with a petition to “reclaim his honour” after his name figured, inaccurately, on a list of thousand people allegedly converted to Islam by two Delhi-based Muslim clerics. While Kumar was given a clean chit by the UP Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) that picked him up for questioning last month, those in his village of Shitla Kheda were unforgiving and relentless in their persecution of the distraught man. The self-proclaimed “Hindu nationalist” who has written books on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has been facing social boycott and constant threats since his return home.