By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday registered a case against Kolkata-based industrialist Ashok Todi for the alleged murder of his son-in-law and computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman in West Bengal last month.
“We have thoroughly studied the Calcutta High Court’s Tuesday judgement of transferring the probe to the CBI. On the basis of court’s direction we have registered a case under section 302 of Indian Penal Code against Ashok Todi and others,” a senior CBI official said here.
“A special team headed by a joint director will be probing the matter and they would likely visit the crime spot on Saturday where Rizwanur’s body was found under mysterious circumstances,” the official added.
The body of Rizwanur, 30, was found by a railway track in Kolkata with his head smashed on Sep 21, barely a month after his marriage with Priyanka Todi, daughter of Ashok Todi who heads the multi-million-rupee Lux Cozi group.Todi had reportedly been against the inter-religious marriage.
The Calcutta High Court had Tuesday ordered a CBI inquiry into Rizwanur’s death terming the ongoing Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe of the state police as “illegal”.
Faced with a court rebuke and public protests, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Wednesday removed five police officials, including top cop Prasun Mukherjee, for their alleged collusion with Todi in Rizwanur’s death.