Rizwanur Rahman's family members request HC to initiate case against cops

Kolkata: Rizwanur Rahman's family members today requested the Calcutta High Court to initiate a criminal case against the policemen, who have been accused in the death case of the Muslim youth.

The family members alleged that the cops had harassed Rizwanur and his bride Priyanka Todi constantly after their marriage, and also that the police officers danced to Priyanka?s father, industrialist Ashok Todi's tunes.

Kalyan Bandopadhyay, the Rahman family's advocate, today submitted before Justice Dipankar Dutta that the couple had repeatedly been summoned to Lalbazar Police Headquarters by Ajoy Kumar and Gyanwant Singh, the then Deputy Commissioners of Detective Department and Headquarters respectively, and had been pressurised to annul their marriage.

Bandopadhyay submitted that the couple was also harassed by two inspectors of the Anti-Corruption Bureau and officers of Kareya Police Station. Bandopadhyay also spoke of former police commissioner's Prasun Mukherjee's remarks during a press conference a couple of days after Rizwanur's body was found from a railway track in north Kolkata.

Mukherjee had concluded in the press conference that Rizwanur had committed suicide, even before the investigation could begin in the case. Bandopadhyay submitted that this was not expected of a police chief.

Submitting on behalf of Rizwanur's mother, Kalyan Bandopadhyay reminded Justice Dutta of the Lux Cozi T-shirts that had been presented by Ashok Todi, who happens to be the owner of Lux Cozi group, to the officers of Kolkata Police for their program.

Bandopadhyay also said that this revealed the intimacy that existed between the policemen and Ashok Todi, and it was this intimacy which made the policemen act as per Todi's instructions in separating his daughter from her husband.

Bandopadhyay said, "We submitted before the honourable court that the police officers had harassed Rizwanur and Priyanka, and also forced them to call off their marriage, even after knowing that the two were adults, and legally married under the Special Marriage Act-I, on behalf of the Rahman family, have requested Justice Dutta to initiate criminal proceedings against the police officers."

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