Two years after computer graphics teacher, Rizwanur Rahman was found dead under mysterious circumstances, the Calcutta High Court on May 17 directed the CBI to register a murder case and initiate the investigations afresh. A division bench of Justices Bhaskar Bhattacharya and P. Mondal directed the investigating agency to conclude its investigation within four months.
Rizwanur was found dead near railway tracks in Dumdum area on September 21, 2007, just a month after his marriage to Priyanka Todi, daughter of industrialist Ashok Todi, owner of the Rs 200-crore Lux Cozi hosiery brand. Todi, 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. The court directed the CBI to treat September 21, 2007 complaint by Rizwanur’s elder brother Rukbanur Rahman as an FIR. It was alleged that Rizwanur had been threatened and intimidated by senior officers of Kolkata Police at the behest of Todi and other relatives.