Kolkata police chief, four other officers removed

KOLKATA: Bowing to intense public pressure, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee on Wednesday removed five police officers, including the Kolkata police commissioner, a day after the Calcutta High Court ordered a CBI investigation into the mysterious death of Rizwanur Rehman.
    
The officers removed were Police chief Prasun Mukherjee, two deputy commissioners Gyanwant Singh and Ajay Kumar, Assistant Commissioner of the Anti-Rowdy section Sukanti Chakraborty and sub-inspector Krishnendu Ghosh.
    
They were allegedly involved in the death of the computer graphics teacher Rehman who was pressurised to part with his Hindu wife, Priyanka, the daughter of industrialist Ashol Todi.
    
"All the officers will be transferred with immediate effect and the order will be implemented as early as possible," Bhattacharjee, who also holds the Home (Police) portfolio, said at the state secretariat.
    
"We have already taken a political decision to remove them though it took some time due to legalities," the chief minister said.
    
He said that the state government had accepted the CBI investigation, but the judicial inquiry would continue concurrently.
    
Rizwanur married Priyanka on August 18 and his body was found on railway tracks near Dum Dum far from his home in Park Circus on Septemeber 21.
    
After their marriage, the two DCs, the AC and the SI had summoned the couple to the police headquarters thrice and allegedly threatned Rizwanur to part with Priyanka.