On November 15, 2025, Zee News ran a news bulletin claiming that the call for boycotting “terrorist Muslim doctors” after the Delhi blast was yielding results. The channel reported that patients were now fleeing upon hearing the name of Muslim doctors. It then aired a video of a doctor who said while waiting in a queue outside his chamber, a patient reportedly asked another patient the doctor’s name. Upon learning that the doctor’s name was Zulfiqar, he changed lines and went to another OPD clinic.
This segment begins at 2:22 in the Zee News report embedded below.
On the same day, the same video was played again with the same claim in another bulletin on Zee News. The segment begins at 2.37-minute mark below:
At least 15 people were killed in a car-bomb blast near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10. The car was allegedly being driven by a doctor named Umar Nabi, the mastermind of the attack and assistant professor of medicine at the Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad. There are several other doctors in what the investigators have described as a ‘white-collar module’ behind the attack. Some of them have been arrested, some detained and questioned.
While reporting on this, Zee News stated that following the exposure of the white-collar terror network in Delhi and the arrests, Hindu seers had called for a boycott of Muslim doctors. The channel aired a video of controversial Hindutva preacher Yati Narasimhanand Giri, the chief of the Dasna Devi Temple in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He states that animals disguised as Muslim doctors were massacring Hindus, and that Hindus should not seek treatment from Muslim doctors even in an emergency. He also described Al-Falah University, Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia University, and Darul Uloom Deoband University as terrorist havens and threatened to send the army to destroy them with cannons.
Alt News has reported in the past on Yati Narsinghanand’s penchant for hate speech and anti-Muslim invectives.
In the same bulletin, Zee News played the clip of Dr. Zulfiqar, explaining the impact of the boycott of Muslim doctors.
The Video Zee News Showed is from October
An Alt News reader emailed us to inform that the video featuring Dr. Zulfiqar, aired by Zee News, had been on YouTube since before the Delhi bombings. A YouTube channel aired the video on October 6, 2025, highlighting the extent of hatred against Muslims.
Next, we accessed the Instagram handle of Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, a resident of Kairana in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh. The same video was posted on this account on October 4, 2025. In the video, Dr. Zulfiqar recounts an incident that happened to him. He said the patient was around 60 to 70 years old. Zulfiqar laments that communal hatred was so widespread in the society that patients were going away after learning that the doctor was a Muslim.
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When we contacted Dr. Zulfiqar, he did not respond to our calls. However, he posted a video on his Instagram and Facebook pages, addressing the media’s claim that his old video was being aired after the Delhi bombings.
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As readers can see, the doctor clearly mentions that his video was shot more than a month before the Delhi blast and it was being falsely used by channels like Zee News. It is also to be noted that he got the date of the blast wrong on the Instagram video.
To sum up, Dr. Zulfiqar’s video was taken over a month before the Delhi car-bomb blast. Zee News falsely ran it as an effect of the boycott of Muslim doctors.
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