In a shocking incident of bigotry, four Muslim doctors were asked to vacate their rented accommodation in Kolkata’s Kudhgat Area for ‘being Muslim’.
In a shocking incident of bigotry, four Muslim doctors were asked to vacate their rented accommodation in Kolkata’s Kudhgat Area for ‘being Muslim’.
Mohammad Aftab Alam, Mojtaba Hassan, Nasir Shaikh and Shaukat Sheikh working as house staffs in various hospitals in Kolkata however were backed by their landlord Sudipta Mitra who expressed ‘shock about the incident’.
While they were denied flats by many tenants, they were offered accommodation by Mitra. However, the neighbours had a problem with them.
Alam, who is doing his house staffship from Beliaghata Infectious Diseases Hospital, said that one of the neighbours objected to them staying there. They also took umbrage to one of their friends visiting from North Bengal and demanded he show an identity card.
He told News 18: “The situation worsened last Tuesday when one of our friends came from North Bengal for an interview and stayed the night with us. He was accosted by one of the neighbours who asked him for his identity card. He also misbehaved and heckled him. We were humiliated in front of other people in the locality and asked to shift to another place. I told them that they don’t have any rights to behave like this with us just because of our religion.”
The matter was resolved by NGO Sanghati Abhijan who talked to neighbours and the matter was resolved.
Flat owner Sudipta Mitra was quoted saying: “I will meet them and the people who raised certain issues on Saturday. I want to know their exact problem. I had a word with the neighbour who had objected to the group. He told me that the matter had been resolved but I personally want to meet them,” he said.
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