Twist In Rizwanur Case, Cop Probing Rizwan Case Found Dead

Twist In Rizwanur Case, Cop Probing Rizwan Case Found Dead 11 Feb 2009, 1519 hrs IST, Saugata Roy, TNN Text: KOLKATA: In what comes as a major blow to the Rizwanur Rehman case, Arindam Manna, a police sub-inspector of the Government Railway Police (GRP) team that started the probe on Rehman’s mysterious death, was found dead on Wednesday beside the railway tracks near Mankundu Station in Hooghly, far away from his work place at Dum Dum. The Hooghly GRP found his body at around 11.30 am and informed Manna's relatives. Manna, was also among the list of witness that the CBI submitted along with its chargesheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. There were injuries on the left eye, right leg and a deep cut on the throat. Even as a section of the GRP tried to play down the incident as suicide, Arindam's relatives lodged a complaint with the Sheoraphuli GRP, Hooghly, calling it a clear case of murder. The GRP had informed the relatives soon after they found the body, lying on the railway tracks, close to Mankundu station. The body has been sent for post-mortem. Arindam's relative Srikanta Patra alleged in the police complaint that the 31-year old police officer was getting threat calls and was under tremendous pressure for the last couple of days. Patra claimed that Arindam rang his mother at 1.39 am on Wednesday to say that he was in danger, and was leaving this world. "Arindam left for his work place in Dum Dum from his house at Howrah's Dasnagar. Yesterday, late in the night, he called his mother to say that his life was in danger. They will not allow me to live. I am leaving this world," says Arindam's relative in the police complaint. Upset with the phone call, Arindam's relatives did not waste time. They went to his Dum Dum work place, only to find that Arindam had taken leave for two days. On returning home, the relatives made a missing diary (GDE-416) at Dasnagar police station. The Sheoraphuli GRP thus intimated the relatives and asked them to identify the body, soon after they found the body. "It is a planned murder," said relative Srikanata Patra. The unnatural death of the investigating officer has sent ripples in the city. Human Rights activist Sujato Bhadra, who played a leading role in highlighting the Rizwanur case is not in a mood to accept it as suicide. "Arindam was one of the prime witness in the Rizwanur trial to begin soon. The death seems intriguing," Bhadra said. The body of Rizwanur Rahman, a computer graphics designer, was found on rail tracks on September 21, 2007, days after his marriage with Priyanka Todi, daughter of Ashok Todi. On January 16 this year, the Supreme Court ordered release of Kolkata businessman Ashok Todi and his brother Pradeep Todi on bail in the Rizwanur suicide case. The brothers had been in jail for nearly one and a half months.

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