By IANS
Jaipur : Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen left for Delhi by road Friday, a day after she came here from Kolkata following snowballing protests over her stay in India.
According to sources, Nasreen was escorted by police as she left this Rajasthan capital. When media personnel tried to follow her vehicle, police put barricades on the Jaipur-Delhi highway and asked them not to follow her.
On Thursday as well, the local administration did not allow the media to interact with her till late in the night. Two five-star hotels also refused to provide accommodation to Taslima on the pretext that they did not have any room.
When officials intervened, the controversial author, who has angered fundamentalists for her pronouncements on Islam, was booked in Hotel Shikha in an area close to the state secretariat.
Other guests in the hotel were forced to remain in their rooms and no person from outside was allowed to enter the premises.
“We were not aware of Taslima’s visit. In the evening, senior officials of Kolkata Police informed that Taslima was being sent to Jaipur and she has got Y category of security,” said Meghchand Meena, inspector general, security.
Rajasthan police took over her security responsibilities the moment she arrived here.