Balurghat, June 27: The parents of Anup Mondal, who recently went missing from NRS Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta, met jail and social welfare minister Biswanath Chowdhury at the RSP office here today and sought his help to trace the youth.

Chowdhury said he would ask his office in the Writers’ Buildings to contact both the hospital authorities and the Entally police station, where a complaint was lodged. Anup’s relatives have accused police of making them write that the patient had “absconded on his own will”.

The minister also promised to take up the matter with the home secretary once the municipal elections were over.

Anup, a 25-year-old bank employee, had been admitted to NRS with jaundice on June 17. When his relatives went to the hospital the next day, Anup was not in his bed.

Nurses reportedly told the relatives that the patient was “absconding” and a complaint had been lodged with the Entally police station. When Mondal’s brother-in-law went to the police, he was asked to stick to the hospital’s version in his complaint.