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Rizwanur-rerun outrage spills on Bengal highway
In what is being dubbed a rerun of the Rizwanur Rehman murder case, agitating members of a particular community from Rampurhat in Birbhum district of West Bengal on Tuesday blockaded the State Highway for seven hours complaining against police inaction in investigating the alleged murder of Arshad Hussein, a software professional working with an IT firm in Kolkata a fortnight ago.
The victim from Domjur in Howrah, who had gone missing on August 6 and whose body was recovered on August 26 in a mutilated condition, reportedly had an intimate relationship with Suchitra Kolay (name changed), his brother Riazul complained.
"Just because the two belonged to different communities, her parents opposed the relationship and got him murdered," Riazul said, demanding a CBI inquiry into the death even as the busy State highway remained blocked for hours together and police had a tough time dispersing the crowd.
The youth's family had lodged an FIR after recovery of his body. "When no action was taken we even wrote to the political leadership including the Chief Minister but there was no response even as police started threatening us with dire consequences if we pursued the case," said one of those hundreds of protestors, adding they would soon move the State Human Rights Commission.
Rizwanur Rehman, an ITES professional who had married a the daughter of an industrialist from a different community, was mysteriously found dead by the railway tracks in Kolkata in July 2007 leading to a country-wide furore following which then Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had to shunt out police top brass.
In the latest case, complaints have been filed against the family members of Suchitra including her father Haradhan Kolay, the victim's kin said.
Meanwhile, in an apparent role reversal, the Marxists on Tuesday came out in open support of Arshad's family even as former Bengal Minister Anisur Rehman said the current Chief Minister only tried to play to the galleries by declaring cheap projects but was never sensitive towards the minorities. The CPI-M is planning a massive agitation on the Arshad case, party insiders said.
In what is being dubbed a rerun of the Rizwanur Rehman murder case, agitating members of a particular community from Rampurhat in Birbhum district of West Bengal on Tuesday blockaded the State Highway for seven hours complaining against police inaction in investigating the alleged murder of Arshad Hussein, a software professional working with an IT firm in Kolkata a fortnight ago.
The victim from Domjur in Howrah, who had gone missing on August 6 and whose body was recovered on August 26 in a mutilated condition, reportedly had an intimate relationship with Suchitra Kolay (name changed), his brother Riazul complained.
"Just because the two belonged to different communities, her parents opposed the relationship and got him murdered," Riazul said, demanding a CBI inquiry into the death even as the busy State highway remained blocked for hours together and police had a tough time dispersing the crowd.
The youth's family had lodged an FIR after recovery of his body. "When no action was taken we even wrote to the political leadership including the Chief Minister but there was no response even as police started threatening us with dire consequences if we pursued the case," said one of those hundreds of protestors, adding they would soon move the State Human Rights Commission.
Rizwanur Rehman, an ITES professional who had married a the daughter of an industrialist from a different community, was mysteriously found dead by the railway tracks in Kolkata in July 2007 leading to a country-wide furore following which then Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had to shunt out police top brass.
In the latest case, complaints have been filed against the family members of Suchitra including her father Haradhan Kolay, the victim's kin said.
Meanwhile, in an apparent role reversal, the Marxists on Tuesday came out in open support of Arshad's family even as former Bengal Minister Anisur Rehman said the current Chief Minister only tried to play to the galleries by declaring cheap projects but was never sensitive towards the minorities. The CPI-M is planning a massive agitation on the Arshad case, party insiders said.
