KOLKATA: A techie from New Town, along with his 14-year-old son, was on Tuesday allegedly denied stay at a hotel at Sector 44 in Noida, apparently for being a Bengali. The teenaged boy is a national-level skater, attending a championship in Noida.The father claimed the hotel receptionist cancelled his booking—he made reservations through OYO for two nights—claiming the local police station had instructed them not to allow anyone from Bangladesh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir to stay at hotels till Aug 15 for security reasons. The man told TOI, “The receptionist said the local police instructed them not to allow any guest from Bangladesh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. I was surprised. I said we were not Bangladeshis but were from West Bengal. But the receptionist said it was the same thing and that he wouldn’t let us in,” he said.The father said he made multiple calls to OYO. “The customer care executive finally took the call and said they would refund my amount in 7-10 days. I had no other option but to check into another hotel in Sector 49, far from the arena,” he said, adding he had booked the earlier hotel in Sector 44 as it was near the skating rink, where registrations would begin early Wednesday. An OYO official issued an apology and stated the hotel —Meera Eternity—was removed from the booking platform on Tuesday itself and that an inquiry was initiated. “OYO has neither received or given any such guideline to hotels on its platform. OYO does not promote any form of discrimination…” OYO said in a statement.Noida DCP Yamuna Prasad told TOI there had been no official instruction from the Noida Police to hotels to deny entry to people from Bengal or any other state. “Hotels are told to check ID and visa documents of people from Bangladesh but there is no directive to disallow stay to even Bangladeshi residents if they have proper papers,” said Prasad.