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| Protest over farmer's suspect death |
| The recovery of the body led to mob violence in Park Circus on Saturday after rumours that the police had done away with the body of the boy.
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| INDIA
, 24-September-2007
0:53:27 AM |
| Mamata Banerjee has called a one-hour statewide blockade in West Bengal on Monday after the suicide of a farmer in Singur.
The recovery of the body led to mob violence in Park Circus on Saturday after rumours that the police had done away with the body of the boy.
Forty-eight hours after Rizwanur Rehman's mutilated body was found near a railway track in Kolkata, there are more questions than answers. First the circumstances that led to the death were suspect and now the role of the police is raising eyebrows.
Last month, Rehman had married 23-year-old Priyanka, the daughter of Ashok Todi, a prominent businessman. Todi, who was opposed to the match is believed to be close to the ruling party.
So does that explain why the police called a press conference on Sunday to say that Rehman committed suicide, even though the post-mortem report is still awaited?
''One thing we had told the family that even though the girl is going you should not stop channels of communication. I had reasons to believe they had telephonic communications more than once so the girl was not out of her reach. Unfortunately the boy has committed suicide,'' said Prasun Mukherjee, Police Commissioner, Kolkata.
Soon after the wedding Todi lodged a missing person's complaint with the police. A week later a formal kidnapping case was registered.
Rehman's friends allege that the police began harassing the couple after they got wind of Priyanka's family background. She was even baited emotionally with the news of her father suffering a heart attack. She went to visit him but never returned.
''They announced their marriage legally to everyone to the police commissioner and the human rights. There are attested copies to everyone. We have an attested copy they have approved. Once they came to know it is Priyanka Todi then they back out and turn around and they started to interrogate Rizwanur day in and day out,'' said Devraj Banerjee, Rizwanur's friend.
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