The Other Policemen

KOLKATA, Oct. 11: Even before two deputy commissioners of Kolkata Police and two officers of the detective department had intervened in the marriage of Rizwanur Rehman and Ms Priyanka Todi, because it was their ‘professional job and not the PWD’s’, two sub-inspectors of Kareya police station had refused to do the same because they had felt that police shouldn’t interfere into the married life of two consenting adults.
These two sub-inspectors, Mr Jayanta Mukherjee and Mr Pulak Dutta, who were interrogated by the CID today, had gone to Rizwanur's residence late on 31 August, after being informed that a ruckus was on. Rizwanur and Ms Todi, incidentally, had got married earlier on that day. A senior CID officer who is a member of the team investigating the “unnatural death” case of Rizwanur, said that the two officers of Kareya police station told them during questioning that they had gone to Rizwanur’s Tiljala Lane residence on 31 August after being informed that Mr Ashok Todi was trying to take away his daughter from their house. “When they arrived at Rizwanur’s house, they found that he and Ms Priyanka Todi was talking with Mr Ashok Todi,” the CID officer said. The two officers told CID sleuths that both Rizwanur and his wife Priyanka had told them that they had married willingly. “They had also produced a marriage certificate and proofs of age. Rizwanur expressed fear that his father-in-law might harm him for marrying Ms Todi and that Mr Todi was not above abducting him. The officers said that they had asked Priyanka if she wanted to return to her father’s house in Salt Lake. When Priyanka replied in the negative, the two officers said that they left Rizwanur’s house telling Mr Ashok Todi that police can’t interfere with the married live of two consenting adults,” the CID officer said.
Along with the two officers, Trinamul Congress MLA from Ballygunge assembly constituency, Mr Javed Khan, was also interrogated by CID sleuths at Bhawani Bhavan. Mr Khan reportedly told the CID that he hadn’t pressured Priyanka to return to his father’s house as it was alleged.