Mamata visits Rizwanur home, demands CBI probe

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday visited the home of slained computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman, who married a Hindu girl, and demanded for a CBI investigation into his death.
    
"Rizwanur's death is not an individual's case. We are demanding a CBI probe because only such an inquiry could expose the guilty," she said after meeting Rizwanur's family.
   
She also demanded removal of those IPS officers, who were accused of pressurising the youth to part with his wife, till the probe was completed.

"If the police officers are not removed during the probe, the inquiry will not be objective," she told.

Citing the Nandigram firing which claimed 14 lives, Banerjee said, the guilty were still roaming free.

She termed the death of Rizwanur as "state sponsored terrorism".
   
Stating that the girl's father, industrialist Ashok Todi's name had earlier appeared in a cricket betting racket, Banerjee said, "such allegations should also be examined".
    
To a question, she said Trinamool Congress, which takes up issues of public interest and fights them to the last, would continue to take up Rizwanur's death case till the investigation reached its conclusion.

Banerjee met Rizwanur's family after participating in a rally on the occasion of Eid from Tiljala Lane where Rizwanur's house is located. Processionists, which included Trinamool leaders, wore black badges in protest against Rizwanur's death which sparked public outcry.