Rizwanur Rahman committed suicide,says CBI
Rizwanur Rahman,a 30-year-old computer graphics trainer who died in mysterious circumstances in Kolkata had committed suicide, the CBI concluded and wanted a charge sheet to be filed against his wife's Todi family and policemen concerned for allegedly abetting the crime.
The CBI in its much-awaited report on Rizwanur's death also recommended action against senior police officers, including the then Kolkata police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee in this connection putting at rest the controversy as to whether it was a case of a murder or a suicide.
The salient features of the report was today made public by Justice Dipankar Dutta of Calcutta High Court, which had ordered the central agency to investigate the cause of the death of the Muslim computer teacher who had married Priyanka Todi, daughter of a Hindu industrialist.
The CBI sought permission to file charge sheet against Priyanka's father Ashok Todi, uncle Pradip and maternal uncle Anil Saraogi and Mohiuddin alias Pappu for abetment to suicide, criminal intimidation and conspiracy alongwith the then deputy commissioner (detective department) Ajoy Kumar and two officers of his department.
It also recommended departmental action against former police commissioner, who is at present the ADG (telecom) with the West Bengal police, while asking for major disciplinary action against the then DCP (headquarter) Gyanwant Singh and some officers of Karaya police station.
Rizwanur, whose body was found beside railway tracks on September 21, a month after his marriage to Priyanka, had allegedly been intimidated by senior police officers of Kolkata Police at its Lalbazar headquarter a few days before his death at the behest of her relatives.
The matter would come up for hearing again on March 12.