Doctors asked to vacate flat in Kolkata for being 'Muslims'

Kolkata: Four doctors were told to move out of a residential locality by their neighbours as they are Muslims.

The four Muslim doctors have been identified as Aftab Alam, Mojtaba Hassan, Nasir Shaikh and Sawkat Shaikh.

A Medical College and Hospital alumni, they rented a flat in South Kolkata two months ago. Their neighbours have been creating problem ever since then. Things have turned sour, and now the doctors are planning to move from the area to avoid the everyday tension.

'Our landlord did not have any problem with us but, right from the beginning, some of our neighbours created a hostile situation. Things worsened on Monday when a friend came to visit us. He was heckled by some neighbours who asked him to show an ‘identity proof’. One of them a middle-aged man has asked us to find accommodation elsewhere as we are Muslims', the Times of India quoted Alam as saying.

The young doctors further shared how none of the landlords agrees to rent their house to them because of their religion.