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"People from your religion are killing people from my religion, you people are murderers."
This is what a Kolkata gynecologist Dr Champakali Sarkar said to a pregnant Muslim patient as she refused to attend to her on Thursday, 24 April. This incident has come in the wake of the ghastly Pahalgam terror attack which left 25 Hindu tourists and one local Muslim dead.
The Quint found more such grave communal incidents that have taken place since the day of the tragedy. Yesterday, we covered how anti-Muslim hate speech and calls for violence have proliferated post the terrorist attack.
However, going beyond the online world, more cases of communally-motivated physical and verbal attacks have started taking place in real-time in several cities.
Among them is the case of S*. (*Name hidden to protect identity)
Twenty-seven year old S* is going through her second pregnancy. When S* went for her visit to Dr Sarkar, she never expected to be subjected to such communal and hurtful remarks. S* has been going for a monthly check-up to the doctor since the past 7 months.