Hopes of the CBI report regarding the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehman becoming public did not fructify as the Calcutta HC adjourned the matter for five weeks.
KOLKATA: Hopes of the CBI report regarding the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehman becoming public on Friday did not fructify as the Calcutta High Court adjourned the matter for five weeks following the failure of main accused Ashok Todi and two IPS officers to file affidavits stating their position in the case.
The lawyers of IPS officers Ajoy Kumar and Gyanwant Singh, who were alleged to have intimidated Rizwanur into sending his wife Priyanka to her father Ashok Todi, prayed before Justice Dipankar which had been directed in October.
Todi's lawyer Joymalyo Bagchi also made a similar prayer. On earlier hearings in the case, they had prayed for time to file the affidavits.
However, the counsel for the deceased's elder brother Ruqbanur, prayed that the CBI report be circulated only after the affidavits were filed, claiming that these could be influenced by the contents of the report.
CBI counsel Ranjan Roy prayed the report be circulated only after the final hearing in the case was completed.
Hearing all the parties, Justice Dutta directed Ruqbanur's counsel and also the CBI lawyer to file affidavits in their opposition within three weeks of the prayer for immediate circulation of the report.
The court gave two weeks to the police officers and Todi to file their affidavits in reply to the opposition.
After examining the affidavits, the court would decide on the question of circulating the CBI report when the matter comes up for further hearing on February 20. The CBI had earlier submitted its report before the court on January 8.
The central investigating agency had on January 8 submitted its report in a sealed cover before Justice Dutta, who adjourned the matter till Friday for further hearing.
Following a petition by Ruqbanur and also his mother Kishwar Jahan, the High Court had on October 16 directed the CBI to investigate the issue and submit its report within two months.
The agency had then started a murder case against Priyanka's father Ashok Todi and others.
The agency had, however, on December 17 sought time till today to submit the report as formalities had not been completed.
Rizwanur had married Priyanka Todi, daughter of wealthy businessman Ashok Todi, under the Special Marriage Act on August 18 and began living with her at his residence from
August 21.
It was alleged that Rizwanur and Priyanka were summoned to the Kolkata Police headquarters Lalbazar thrice at the behest of Todi and his relatives and she returned to her father's home on the third occasion on September 8 following a written assurance by her uncle that she could return to her in-laws after a week.
But she never returned. The body of the computer graphics teacher was found lying beside rail tracks on September 21, a month after his marriage to Priyanka Todi.
The issue had snowballed into a public outcry and resulted in the shunting out of the then Kolkata Police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee, deputy commissioner (headquarter) Gyanwant Singh and DCP (DD) Ajoy Kumar and two other officer from the detective department.
Interestingly, Priyanka has in a written statement on December 8 said Ruqbanur had tried to force Rizwanur to sign divorce papers on the night of September 19.
Her statement, however, was silent on the role of senior Kolkata Police officers who had allegedly threatened Rizwanur and which was being investigated by the CBI.
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