Even her house was cordoned off with heavy deployment of security personnel and only a chosen few -- including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and a few of her ministerial colleagues besides the actress's family members -- could pay their last respects.
Banerjee, who rushed to the nursing home soon after getting the news and accompanied the hearse to the actress's home, appealed to the masses to respect the wishes of the family to have peaceful and quiet final rites.
