Trolls mutilated photos of the actor and posted them online with sick comments.
One wrote: "You're not British, you're foreign". Another tweeted: "I'll always be here to bother you".
Devastated Shobna, who plays Sunita in the TV1 soap, was quoted by The Sun as saying, "Being racially abused on Twitter really shook me up. It felt like going back in time to the 1970s."
"It put me in mind of a psycho