Kolkata, October 20
The CBI obtained orders of arrest warrant against Ashoke Todi, the prime accused and two other policemen in Rizwanur’s mysterious death case. The policemen are not arrested yet but Ashoke Todi’s passport was seized. Todi and other accused had been asked not to leave Kolkata.

The businessman and other policemen had been charged under Sections 302, 120 and 506, IPC, for killing the young graphic designer who had married Todi’s daughter, Priyanka under the Special Marriage Act. The CBI team leader, Arun Kumar admitted charges under Sections 302, 120 and 506, had been framed against Todi and others but he did not spell out if the accused policemen included the names of Prasun Mukherjee and the two other deputy commissioners of police at Lalbzar, Gyanbant Singh and Ajoy Kumar.

The Todi family did not approve of Priyanka’s marriage. Instead, the influential businessman engaged policemen at Lalbazar for freeing his daughter from Rizwanur’s clutch and getting her back home. The police first persuaded the couple to get them separated but failed. And then they applied the method of torturing and intimidating.

Rizwanur and Priyanka, both adults, married on August 18 and they started living at Rizwanur’s house at Tiljala Lane in central Kolkata. But Rizwanur’s body was found on the railway track near Dum Dum station on September 21.

Though the arrest orders of Todi and others were officially obtained at the CBI’s special court in New Delhi on Friday, it was not executed till today since the CBI officials were waiting for certain other legal formalities to be observed which might be completed on Monday when the courts and the government offices in West Bengal would be re-opened after the puja holidays.

A seven-member CBI team headed by the joint director, Arun Kumar, arrived in the city last evening from Delhi. A group of forensic experts and the officials of the central forensic science laboratory also accompanied the CBI team.