Click to play videoNew Delhi: For the first time since Kolkata graphic artist Rizwanur Rehman's death, his wife Priyanka Todi broke her silence before members of the West Bengal Women's Commission, who visited her on Tuesday, and reportedly said that her husband had committed suicide.
Priyanka is believed to have told the team that she sought an impartial probe into her husband’s death.
Rejecting claims that police in any way had pressurised her to leave Rizwanur, Priyanka said that she had not been forcibly taken away from her husband.
The nine-member team, led by Commission Chairperson Professor Jasodhara Bagchi, met Priyanka at her Salt Lake residence in Kolkata.
The statement comes as a relief to the police and Priyanka's father, businessman Ashok Todi.
Meanwhile, Kolkata Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee, who has been pushed into a tight corner in the Rizwanur case, met CBI director Vijay Shanker in New Delhi on Tuesday, even as Calcutta High Court heard a petition from Rizwanur’s family seeking a CBI investigation into his mysterious death.
Even the Left Front is demanding a CBI probe and CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu has made his party’s stand clear by seeking action against the accused police officers, including Mukherjee.
It is known that Rizwanur spent some time in Bagbazar, Cossipore and Dum Dum Chiriamore on September 21 — the day his body was found on the tracks near Patipukur, Kolkata. Investigators have tracked his movements from cell phone records but are not sure why he went to these places.
The marriage witness and student of Rizwanur, Sadique Hossain told CNN-IBN that he had received several threats from the Kolkata Police after he played the witness to Rizwanur and Priyanka’s marriage.
“Police officials threatened me on phone. They also asked me to come to headquarters,” he recalls.
Despite witnesses like Hossain coming forward to corroborate accusations of police involvement in the death, the case in the Calcutta High Court continues to drag on at a snail's pace.
Meanwhile, the possibility of a CBI inquiry into the case is also dwindling. The state government has pleaded in court that the complaint filed by Rizwan's family alleges no a cognizable offence.
“Until and unless there is a cognizable offence, CBI cannot intervene,” said Advocate General (West Bengal), Balai Ray.
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