HC orders fresh CBI probe into Rizwanur case

Calcutta High Court today ordered CBI to initiate fresh investigations and register a murder case in the death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman, over two years after he was found dead near a railway track here.

Setting aside the CBI investigation ordered earlier by a single bench, a division bench comprising Justices Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Prasenjit Mondal directed the CBI to treat as an FIR the complaint filed by Rukbanur Rahman, elder brother of Rizwanur, on September 21, 2007. The bench directed the investigating agency to conclude its investigation within four months. It observed that Justice Soumitra Pal in his earlier order had only directed the CBI to investigate the cause of the death and file a report to it and had not authorised the agency to investigate the alleged crime.

The CBI had then in its report concluded that Rizwanur's death was a case of suicide and recommended initiation of an abetment to suicide case under Section 306 of the IPC.

Rizwanur was found dead near railway tracks in Dumdum area on September 21, 2007, just a month after his marriage on August 18, 2007, to Priyanka Todi, daughter of industrialist Ashok Todi. Ashok Todi, owner of the Rs 200-crore Lux Cozi hosiery brand, his brother Pradip and brother in-law Anil Sarogi are accused in the case along with senior IPS officers then serving in the Kolkata Police.

It was alleged that Rizwanur had been threatened and intimidated by senior officers of Kolkata Police at the behest of Priyanka's father and relatives in allowing her to go back to her paternal home at posh Salt Lake area, with an assurance that she would be sent back after a week, but she was not.