The author, who drew the ire of fundamentalists for her controversial books like 'Lajja' and 'Dwikhandito', said this was another attempt to gag her and a violation of her right to speech and expression.
"The government is bowing to the demands of Islamic fundamentalists. Everyone is silent when my rights are infringed upon," she said.
Exiled from Bangladesh in 1994 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with her novel'Lajja' (Shame), the doctor-turned-author had taken refuge in the city in 2004, after a long stay in Europe.
But after violent protests in the city in November 2007, the government took her away to an undisclosed location in New Delhi where she has been residing since then.
In the last year's Kolkata book fair, the launch of one of her books was cancelled over protest by Muslim fundamentalists, though all of her books were available in the market freely.
