Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday cancelled the bail plea of three former Kolkata Police officers, accused of abetting the suicide of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rahman and directed them to surrender within three days.
A division bench comprising justices Amit Talukdar and P S Banerjee, upholding the prayer of Rizwanur's mother Kishwar Jahan seeking cancellation of bail to the trio, directed them to surrender before the metropolitan magistrate by Friday.
The three officers are former deputy commissioner of Kolkata Police (detective department) Ajoy Kumar, former assistant commissioner in detective department's anti-rowdy section Sukanti Chakraborty and inspector Krishnendu Das.
The CBI, which is investigating the Rizwanur death case on a directive by the high court, had supported Jahan's prayer for cancellation of bail to the three officers claiming that they could try to influence witnesses in the case.
Seven persons, including the police officers, were accused under sections 306 (abatement to suicide), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy).
Rizwanur's father in-law Ashok Todi, his brother Pradip Todi and brother in-law Anil Saraogi could not be arrested yet, as the CBI could not trace them, while another accused Moinuddin alias Pappu is behind bars.
Rizwanur, coming from a modest background, was found dead near the railway tracks on September 21 last year, a month after his marriage to Priyanka, daughter of industrialist Ashok Todi.
The police officers had allegedly summoned the couple to the city police headquarters thrice in early September last year and threatened him to make him part with his wife.
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