Though they are happy that the police officers held in connection with Rizwanur's death have been sent to judicial custody, his family says there are many unanswered questions regarding his death.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday held that computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman's death in September last was a suicide and not murder.
The Central Bureau of Investigations on Thursday grilled Priyanka Todi and some of her relatives in connection with the mysterious death of her husband Rizwanur Rehman. The CBI also questioned a student of the computer institute where Rizwanur used to teach. The student had called Rizwanur soon after the railway police found his body near the tracks at Dum Dum in Kolkata. They also questioned her mother Bimla Todi, her uncles Pradip Todi, Anil Sarogi and two of her aunts.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that the trial in the Rizwanur Rehman case would not commence till the Calcutta High Court decides a petition filed by industrialist Ashok Todi challenging CBI's decision to chargesheet him in the case. However, the apex court remained silent on the issue of framing of charges in the case in which the investigating agency in its report alleged that Todis used pressure tactics to drive Rizwanur to commit suicide.
Rizwanur Rehman, the computer graphics teacher from Kolkata who allegedly committed suicide after his wife Priyanka was taken away forcibly, had "forgiven" his father-in-law Ashok Todi, named in Central Bureau of Investigation's charge sheet for abetting the "suicide".
Taking a cue from similar campaigns in the past for Jessica Lall and Priyadarshini Mattoo, the netizens are planning an online petition addressed to West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee, seeking "justice" for Rizwanur.
The West Bengal government on Friday withdrew the judicial inquiry into Rizwanur Rahman's death.
Justice Dutta directed Ruqbanur's counsel and also the CBI lawyer to file affidavits stating their opposition within three weeks of the plea for immediate circulation of the report. The court gave two weeks to the police officers and Todi to file their affidavits in reply to the opposition.
Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday interrogated Inspector General of State Police (Enforcement Branch), Nazrul Islam, in connection with the mysterious death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman. Nazrul had earlier said that he was a witness to the alleged threats by officers of the Kolkata Police to Sadiq, one of the witnesses to the marriage of Rizwanur and Priyanaka Todi, daughter of industrialist Ashok Todi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday began interrogating industrialist Ashok Todi in connection with the mysterious death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who married Todi's daughter Priyanka.
Officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday interrogated Priyanka Todi, daughter of prime accused Ashok Todi and widow of Muslim computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances a few days after his marriage. According to CBI sources, Priyanka fully cooperated with the officers and answered all their questions. In the last four days, the CBI has interrogated more than 20 people and has obtained helpful clues.
She was also upset with Priyanka Todi's statements to the media tarnishing the family's image.
Kishwar Jahan, mother of Rizwanur Rahman, on Tuesday prayed in the Calcutta High Court for criminal proceedings against former Kolkata police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee and another senior police officer.Rizwanur, who was under tremendous pressure to separate from his legally married wife Priyanka Todi, daughter of Ashok Todi, allegedly at the instance of the police, was found dead beside rail tracks on September 21 last year.
Appearing before Justice Dipankar Dutta, Advocate General Balai Roy submitted that the investigating agency had exceeded the court's order by registering a police complaint and also sought rejection of the petition by Rizwanur's brother Ruqbanur. The CBI had said in its report that Rizwanur had committed suicide.
The case relating to the unnatural death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who had married the daughter of a Hindu industrialist in 2007, was on Wednesday transferred to a fast track court for trial. Chief judge city sessions court Murari Mohan Ghosh ordered the seven accused in the case, including Rizwanur's father-in-law Ashok Todi, an industrialist, to appear before the additional district judges court (9th bench) on May 29.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice S S Nijjar and Justice Maharaj Sinha, declining to pass an interim stay, however, asked the CBI not to press the matter till it passed the verdict on the stay application.
A three-member CBI team went to the spot where Rizwanur's body was found on September 21 and zeroed in on three persons stated to be present at the time of the incident.
The family of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman described as a "setback" the Supreme Court's order not allowing murder charge to be framed against his industrialist father-in-law Ashok Kumar Todi. "It is a little setback for us that the Supreme Court has ordered that a fresh investigation with a murder charge being instituted by the CBI is not needed and the trial will be held for abetment to suicide," said Rukbanur Rahman.
The unnatural death of GRP sub-inspector Arindam Manna who had first inquired into the death of Rizwanur Rehman, would not hinder the case of the computer graphics teacher, CBI officials claimed here today.
The family of Rizwanur Rehman on Friday expressed doubts about the authenticity of media reports, which claimed that the Central Bureau of Investigation has concluded that the computer graphics teacher had committed suicide. Rizwanur's mother Keshwar Jahan said she would never accept that her son committed suicide. ''He was not the type of boy who can commit suicide.'' she said. Keshwar said that she would wait for the CBI report.
The agency, probing the death of Rehman, will approach the Director General of Health Services (DGHS) for constituting the team of experts that would examine the post-mortem report.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday questioned Kolkata-based industrialist Ashok Todi, the main accused in the case relating to death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman who had married his daughter Priyanka.
In the first part of an exclusive interview to rediff.com's Managing Editor Sheela Bhatt, Rizwanur mother Kishwar Jehan spoke of how Ashok Todi came to their humble home and desperately tried to persuade his daughter to return. She says he even offered the family a blank cheque if they let Priyanka return to her home In the second and final part, she speaks how the Todi family aided by the police and goons pressured the newlyweds and 'forced' Priyanka to return home.
"Heads will roll and even Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee may not be spared," Basu said.
'I have always considered you to be my daughter-in-law and so there was no need for the lawyer's letter to collect your valuables. You could have spoken to me or have written to me directly,' Rizwanur's mother Kiswar Jehan said, referring to letter by Priyanka, the daughter of industrialist Ashok Todi.
West Bengal Chief Minister said the decision will be implemented as early as possible.
Breaking her silence for the first time since her husband Rizwanur Rehman's mysterious death over three months ago, Priyanka Todi has regretted involvement of her brother-in-law Ruqbanur and his friend Pappu in their conjugal life.
Led by CBI joint director Arun Kumar, the seven-member team of the Central agency's special crime branch spent more than an hour near the railway tracks in the Patipukur area of Kolkata's northern fringe after taking over the investigation from the state CID following an order of Calcutta High Court. The team includes forensic experts.
The judicial enquiry ordered by the West Bengal government into the mysterious death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman will not be able to unravel the truth, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi said on Monday. The minister also demanded an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the matter. "Only a CBI enquiry can bring justice to the grief-stricken mother of the deceased," said Dasmunshi.
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday asked the West Bengal government to produce the report of police inquest made after the discovery of the body of Rizwanur Rehman, the computer graphics teacher, whose body was found beside railway tracks a month after his marriage to the daughter of an affluent industrialist.
Ashok Todi, father-in-law of the computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who died on September 21, 2007, on Friday denied that his daughter Priyanka had married him and claimed that she was "taken" to the Muslim youth's house.
A city court on Thursday directed framing of abetment to suicide charge against industrialist Ashok Todi and three others in the case of mysterious death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman.
As the probe into the death of Rehman, a computer graphics teacher, was reaching its final stage, CBI sources claimed that it looked like a case of suicide and someone had definitely forced him to take this extreme step. Without naming the person, the CBI said it had zeroed down on a close relative of Priyanka. The agency would be pressing abetment to suicide case against the relative. Last month, CBI had registered a murder case against Rizwanur's father-in-law Ashok Todi
Former deputy commissioner of police (detective) Ajay Kumar and two other police officers, included in the chargesheet in the Rizwanur Rahman death case, on Tuesday surrendered before a Kolkata court which sent them to 14 days' judicial custody. The court rejected their bail applications, CBI counsel Partha Tapaswi said.
Officer in-charge of Sheoraphuli GRP S Bhattacharya said that it was prima facie a case of suicide by Arindam Manna. Manna's relatives, however, suspect foul play in the incident.
Rizwanur Rehman's family on Thursday moved the Calcutta High Court, challenging the West Bengal government-appointed inquiry commission headed by a retired judge to look into the youth's mysterious death. With the high court already ordering a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation, there is no point in continuing with the Justice (retired) Aloke Chakraborty Commission of Inquiry, the petitioners -- Rehman's mother Keshwar Jahan and his elder brother Rukbanur -- said
Seventh metropolitan magistrate Bhivas Chatterjee of the metropolitan court issued the warrants saying their non-appearance despite summons was nothing but an attempt to drag on the proceedings. The warrants were issued against Ashok Todi, his brother Pradip Todi and brother-in-law Anil Saraogi who did not appear before the court on Monday despite summons being issued against them.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant bail to industrialist Ashok Todi accused of abetting the suicide of his son-in-law Rizwanur Rahman. "We are not inclined to entertain the petition," said a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. It also declined the submission of senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for Todi, that the Calcutta high court be directed to decide his bail plea before winter vacation.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to probe the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehman and submit the report before it within two months. In an interim order, Justice Soumitra Pal observed that the CID could not hold an inquiry into the mysterious death of the computer graphics teacher under the given circumstances. Rizwanur's body was found on the railway tracks on September 21 following his marriage to Priyanka, daughter of influential industrialist Ashok Todi
The main allegation against Papu, who runs an NGO in Kolkata, was that he had taken Rs 11 lakh from Pradeep Todi, uncle of Priyanka, for ensuring her return. It is also alleged that a part of money was paid to a family member of Rehman.
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