By IANS,
Kolkata The Calcutta High Court Friday refused to stop the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from filing charges against the seven accused, including four police officers, in the case relating to the mysterious death of Muslim youth Rizwanur Rehman.
The stay application was filed Aug 14 by Rizwanur’s father-in-law Ashok Todi and four police officers, including ex-deputy commissioner of police (Detective Department) Ajay Kumar, former assistant commissioner Sukanti Chakraborty, Gyanwant Singh and sub-inspector Krishnendu Das.
“The court has decided not to stop CBI from filing chargesheet against the seven accused in the Rehman death case as ordered earlier by Justice Dipankar Dutta (of the same court) Aug 14,” a bench headed by Chief Justice S.S. Nijjar said.
However, Todis’ brother Pradip and Rehman’s neighbour Pappu had not filed any application for a stay order on the charges being filed.
The high court on Aug 14 had said that Rizwanur was provoked to commit suicide by his in-laws and four police officers and asked the CBI to file charges against the accused, including his father-in-law Ashok Todi.
Rizwanur, a Muslim, had married Ashok Todi’s daughter Priyanka, a Hindu, last year. A graphic designer, he was found dead by the railway tracks of Patipukur in north Kolkata Sep 21, 2007, barely a month after the marriage. As a Hindu-Muslim love story gone horribly wrong, the death had shocked the entire nation.
Ashok Todi and his brother Pradip, along with four city police officers, were subsequently accused of threatening and pressurising Rizwanur to stay away from Priyanka.