The Uttar Pradesh Police has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against Dr. Kafeel Khan for allegedly inciting the minority community through his memoir published in 2021. The case accuses him of promoting his book on the 2017 Gorakhpur oxygen tragedy among Muslims, purportedly aiming to tarnish the reputation of the Adityanath government and potentially stirring communal unrest in the state.

Dr. Khan, known for spotlighting the issues at the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur since 2017, expressed surprise at the FIR filed on December 1, 2023, as his memoir had been released in 2021. He speculated a connection between this legal action and the portrayal of his experiences in the recent popular film, "Jawan," featuring Shah Rukh Khan. It is believed by many, including Khan himself, that a character in the movie, a doctor (portrayed by actor Sanya Malhotra), falsely accused of causing the deaths of numerous children at a hospital, loosely mirrors his own story as a paediatrician in Gorakhpur.

Dr. Khan suggested a possible link between this FIR and his letter of appreciation to Shah Rukh Khan following the film's success, indicating that the legal action might be a repercussion of that correspondence. He has relocated to a city in southern India to evade continued harassment from the state authorities in his native Uttar Pradesh.

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