New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday was told that the right to love and marriage was a part of the fundamental right to live and Kolkata policemen who allegedly acted in its violation in the Rizwanur Rahman-Priyanka Todi inter-religious marriage case should be punished.
Computer graphic teacher Rizwanur, who married businessman Ashok Todi's
daughter Priyanka in August 2007, was found dead on the railway tracks between
Dumdum and Bidan Nagar police station in Kolkata September 21, 2007.
Kishwar Jahan, Rizwanur's morther, told the Supreme court: "Whether (her son's death was a) murder or suicide, it is a matter of investigation and I will have to accept it. Even if it is a suicide it is because of the pressure (brought on my son Rizwanur) and the abetment to suicide by the police and also by the Todis and they should not go unpunished."
While reserving the verdict, the apex court bench of Justice P Sathasivam
and Justice B S Chauhan said: "The allegation is that without a FIR (first information report) or complaint, the police called the couple and pressured them to enter into an agreement (by which Priyanka was taken back to her father to Todis' home). Now it is a matter of investigation or disciplinary inquiry."
The apex court was hearing a case related to the marriage of Rizwanur with Priyanka on August 18, 2007 and his death later. Rizwanur allegedly invited the wrath of Todi for marrying his daughter as he was from a different religion.
There were allegations that Kolkata policemen acted at the instance of Todi and harassed Rizwanur.
In the wake of these allegations, a single judge of the Calcutta High Court October 16, 2007 ordered a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
which found Todi guilty of abetment to Rizwanur's suicide.
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