Kolkata: Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Avishek Banerjee was seriously injured on Tuesday when his car met with an accident on the Durgapur Expressway in Hooghly district, police said.

Avishek was rushed to a city nursing home where doctors said he had sustained an orbital injury in a facial bone below the eye. Former minister Manas Bhunia, who was part of the convoy but in another vehicle, was safe. Ten policemen in her nephew's convoy also sustained injuries and were released after preliminary treatment.