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Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar and NRI doctor detained by Kolkata police; NRI medic released

Kolkata, June 20 (UNI) Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar and an NRI Dr Rajat Shuvra Banerjee were picked by the city police from a street in Bhawanipur on Friday and taken to the Lal Bazar police headquarters separately in prison vans. Later the NRI medic was released, official sources said.
Majumdar, who is also the BJP's West Bengal unit president, was forced inside the police van this afternoon and taken to the Kolkata Police headquarters.
Sources said Majumdar, who led a party procession in Bhawanipur to mark Pashimbanga Diwas and paid floral tribute at the statue of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, was picked up by police while he was proceeding to meet UK-based NRI physician Rajat Subhra Banerjee, who had reportedly stood up and protested when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was giving a lecture in a college in London this March.
Banerjee was then protesting the rape and murder case of a resident physician at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in August last year, which had led to a huge uproar in the state and country.
Banerjee told reporters that he was released after Police came to know that his mother was unwell. He alleged that he was harassed by the police and said he would seek judicial intervention against his "unlawful detention".
He said he was a British passport holder and loves to come to Kolkata and meet his aged mother.
“I was waiting for Majumdar to arrive at my home. Later I heard that he had been stopped on the way and
I stepped out to meet him,” said Rajat Banerjee.
Later both Majumdar and Banerjee were asked to get into the police vehicles and taken to the city police headquarters.
In March, Chief Minister Banerjee visited London and Oxford and delivered a lecture at Kellogg College, where Dr Rajat Subhra Banerjee had asked the CM to name one industry that had come up in Bengal during her tenure, leading to chaos in the auditorium. The Indian diaspora members there had also held posters condemning the brutal rape and murder of the lady resident medic at the RG Kar hospital.
Earlier, Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar marked the Paschimbanga Dibas and paid homage at the ancestral home of Bharat Kesari Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Bhawanipur.
Mookerjee was the architect of West Bengal. Majumdar offered floral tributes at his statue.
He also led a bike rally from Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s ancestral home to Netaji’s residence.
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