According to a report by Organiser, the doctor had received threats from leaders of the Muslim League and some other locals to extend support to another dental hospital recently opened in town. The doctor had also received extortion threats and was forced to shut his clinic or face threatening consequences, as per the report.
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, a Muslim League politician who fought for the division of India, the creation of a separate Pakistan, and indeed moved to Pakistan after partition where he became the first president of Muslim League (Pakistan).
Under this Plan, the British would immediately transfer power to two successor authorities — the Congress and the Muslim League and the plan envisaged dividing India into two dominions on a territorial-cum-communal basis. The idea of Mountbatten was to divide India but to retain maximum unity.