Click to play videoKolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was forced to order a judicial probe into mysterious death of a Muslim boy Rizwan who married a Hindu girl Priyanka, the daughter of industrialist, Ashok Todi.
Rizwan's family has been alleging that two senior police officers were threatening him with dire consequences after he married Priyanka.
Rizwan, a teacher at a multimedia academy, was found dead on railway tracks on the outskirts of Kolkata last week.
He had earlier alleged that top officers of Kolkata Police were pressuring him to end his marriage with Priyanka.
His relatives allege that the industrialist exerted his influence in the police to separate the couple. Rizwan had married 23-year-old Priyanka on August 18.
“My elder brother and uncle were called thrice to the Lal Bazaar police station and threatened. Even Rizwan was threatened so that he would leave Priyanka Todi and she could go back to her house,” says Rizwan’s brother Minal Ur Rahman.
Finally, the state government acknowledged the demand for an inquiry into the suspicious death by someone outside the state police.
The single-judge inquiry follows allegations of direct involvement of top brass of Kolkata Police in the death. “I received information from different sources from government sources, from political sources and I decided it should go for a judicial enquiry,” Bhattacharjee said.
Though Todi was summoned by the CID for interrogation on Thursday, no arrest has been made so far.
Rizwan-ur-Rehman's death had sparked off street protests in Kolkata last week, with angry people taking to streets and going on an rampage.
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