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| 2007-11-04 | |
Police say 29-year-old Rizwan-ur Rahman — who was found by a busy railroad track with evidence of head injuries — committed suicide.
The federal Central Bureau of Investigation has taken up the case at the urging of the state's high court and has announced that the 23-year-old woman's father, well-known industrialist Ashok Todi, is being investigated for involvement in the death. "We don't have faith in [West Bengal] state and its agencies. We believe the federal agency is more impartial and is capable of bringing my brother's murderers to the book," said Rukban-ur Rahman, Rizwan's brother. Since the discovery of Mr. Rahman's body on Sept. 21, demonstrations, candlelight vigils and online petitions have called for the case to be pursued, with many convinced he was killed because he was a Muslim. The anger extends to senior police officers — who are suspected of complicity — and the Communist-run state government of West Bengal. Living in a Muslim ghetto but having studied in a prestigious However, according to a letter the couple sent to local police, Mrs. Rahman's father soon began pressuring them to separate and insisted his daughter return to him. In the letter, the couple expressed fears of being abducted by criminals hired by Mr. Todi and sought police help. Mrs. Rahman eventually agreed to visit her family for a week, Mr. Rahman said in a second letter to human rights groups, but she never returned. He said police had threatened to charge him with abducting his bride. "I am convinced she is being detained in her father's custody against her wishes. Please help me get back my wife," Mr. Rahman wrote to the Association for the Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) two days before his death. | |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #1 Living in a Muslim ghetto but having studied in a prestigious missionary college, Mr. Rahman became a teacher at a popular multimedia institute, where he met Priyanka Todi. I believe this is one of the schools founded all over India by Christian missionaries all over India. In many cases, they are elite schools that have traditionally accepted students based on academic ability for hundreds of years. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2007-11-04 14:30 |