Kolkata: The Kashmiri doctor, who claimed he was asked to leave Kolkata following the Pulwama attack, is considering bidding adieu to the city after his daughters complained of ostracism in school and neighbourhood.
The doctor, a cardiologist who has been living here for the last 22 years, has claimed that a day after the terror attack, he was threatened of ‘dire consequences’ if he continued to stay in the city with his family.
In spite of the threats, the doctor had said Monday that he would stay put after the West Bengal government came to his rescue. The doctor’s daughters aged nine and seven, are students of one of the leading English-medium schools in the city.
Ananya Chakraborti, Chairperson of the West Bengal State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, who had been coordinating with the family and have assured all support to them, said Tuesday that both girls have been ostracised by their friends in school.
“The doctor told me that his daughters’ friends are not interacting with them properly. I told him not to get tensed. I spoke to the school authorities and they said they will look into it,” Chakraborti told this agency.
“Some kids who go to school with the doctor’s daughters, have stopped travelling with them suddenly, she said. The doctor also told me that some children even stopped talking to his daughters. We have assured all support. But this is an alarming situation which is being deliberately created ahead of the elections, with the sole aim of polarisation,” Chakraborti added.
The doctor had said Monday that he was heckled but he did not pay much attention to the threats he received initially. However, after his daughters, both of whom speak fluent Bengali, started facing problems, he decided to change his mind.
PTI