WB govt has ruled out a CBI probe into the mysterious death of Rizwan-ur-Rehman, Muslim leaders claimed after a meeting with CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
KOLKATA: The West Bengal government has ruled out a CBI probe into the mysterious death of computergraphics teacher Rizwan-ur-Rehman, Muslim leaders claimed after a meeting with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday.
Bhattacharjee is also reported to have told a delegation of the Muslim leaders that Kolkata police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee, DCP (Headquarters) Gyanwant Singh and DCP (Detective Department) Ajay Kumar would not be removed from their posts following allegations that they had put pressure on Rizwan to separate from his Hindu wife.
The officers are under the scanner after the incident last month had triggered a public outcry amid demands for stern action against them.
"We told the chief minister that we have no confidence in the CID which is investigating the case and demanded a CBI enquiry. He said that he saw no difference between the CBI and the CID," state general secretary of Jamiat-Ulem-e-Hind Siddiqulla Chowdhury told reporters.
According to Chowdhury, the chief minister also told the two-hour long meeting there was no question of removing the CP and the two DCPs.
"We demanded their removal till the inquiries were over, but the CM said no, they will appear before the investigating agency whenever called. He said that even he would go to the investigating agency if called," Chowdhury said.
He said the chief minister also ruled out the demand of the Muslim leaders to appoint a sitting judge for the judicial enquiry into the case. "He said, a judge is a judge and the
law will take its own course".
Chowdhury said the leaders were assured by Bhattacharjee that investigations into the Rizwanur case would reach a conclusion and action would be taken accordingly. He asked us to give him a few months and have confidence in him."
The meeting was also attended by Minority Affairs minister Abdus Sattar, Land and Land Reforms minister Abdur Rezzak Molla, CPI(M) MP, Md Selim, Shahi Imam of the Tipu Sultan mosque, Noor-ur-Rehman Barkati, general secretary of Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Bangla Syed Bahauddin, and former state Women's Commission member Mirattun Nahar.
Alleging that Thursday's meeting had been actually convened by the CPI(M) keeping the chief minister in the forefront, Chowdhury said he was not happy with its outcome.
Several Muslim organisations will hold a rally on November 15 to decide their next course of action on the basis of discussions at today's meeting, Chowdhury said.
At the meeting, Chowdhury submitted a 12-point memorandum to the government, demanding, among other things, an amendment of the Police Act, government intervention in preventing women and child trafficking, ensuring job reservation for Muslims and improvement of law and order.
He sought the chief minister's intervention in tracing three teenage Muslim girls kidnapped from Kolaghat in East Midnapore district on November 28 last year.
Stating that participants at the meeting also demanded non-extension of visa for controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, he said the chief minister had assured of looking into the matter.
Chowdhury, whose organisation is a constituent of the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee agitating against farmland acquisition at Nandigram, also demanded that the government mitigate the civil war-like situation prevailing there as also in Singur.
"The chief minister has so far given only verbal assurance that there will be no chemical hub at Nandigram. It has no value. It must be formalised by the cabinet," he said.
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