Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday submitted its final investigation report on the Rizwanur Rahman case to the Calcutta High Court.
The report is likely to indict at least seven persons with abetment of Rizwan's suicide. This includes the two Todi brothers, Priyanka's father Ashok and uncle Pradeep Todi.
The report also chargesheets four police officers including two of the IPS cadre, ACP Sukanti Chakraborty and sub-inspector Krishnendu Das of Kolkata Police. The CBI has also filed charges against Pappu, Rizwanur's family friend, who had allegedly accepted a bribe from the Todi brothers to separate the couple, the report said.
The next hearing in the case will be on Friday, and the Calcutta High Court has asked for the report to be kept in a sealed cover till then.
The Calcutta High Court had directed the CBI to investigate the mysterious death of Rizwan, whose body was found on rail tracks in north Kolkata on September 21 last year, nearly a month after his marriage to Priyanka against the wishes of her father Ashok Todi, who heads the Lux Cozi hosiery group.
Rizwan had approached the rights group Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), naming the police personnel who had harassed and threatened him since the marriage.
Ashok Todi earlier said his daughter Priyanka's marriage with the Rizwan had come as a shock to him.
The graphic designer's death triggered an unprecedented civil society movement in West Bengal with leading citizens and common people taking to the streets and keeping candlelight vigils in their demand for justice and punishment to the guilty.
West Bengal's ruling communists came under fire, too, from civil society for trying to shield the guilty policemen. However, following public pressure, the accused police personnel were removed.
Prasun Mukherjee, then Kolkata police commissioner who held a press conference to almost justify the actions of the Todis, was removed from his post.
(With inputs from IANS)
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