Rizwanur’s brother rejected by voters

By IANS
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

KOLKATA - Even as the Trinamool Congress swept the Kolkata municipal polls, one of its star candidates, Rukbanur Rahman - brother of Rizwanur whose mysterious death shocked the city - was defeated.

Javed Khan, a Trinamool legislator and one of the party’s mayoral candidates, also lost to a lesser known candidate.

Rukbanur, in the forefront of the campaign to bring to justice those responsible for the 30-year-old computer graphics teacher’s death, lost to Revolutionary Socialist Party’s Sushil Kumar Sharma.

Rukbanur also faced opposition from one of his uncles, Akilur Rahman, who contested as an independent.

Rukbanur’s constituency covered south Kolkata areas like Park Circus, Tiljala and neighbouring areas in south Kolkata which had been in flames after Rizwanur’s body was found Sep 21, 2007 along the railway tracks.

Rizwanur had married Priyanka, daughter of businessman Ashok Todi. His death sparked sparked outrage following allegations that his father-in-law had influenced police officers to force him to opt out of the marriage.

Several police officers, including then police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee, were later removed from their posts for their alleged role in Rizwanur’s death.

Todi, two of his relatives and four senior city police officers were among those later chargesheeted for allegedly abetting Rizwanur’s suicide.

The Calcutta High Court last month asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to register a murder case and conduct a fresh probe into the death.

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Kailash Kapoor
June 2, 2010: 7:38 am

KOLKATANS ARE HAPPY THAT JAVED KHAN HAS LOST THE ELECTIONS - HE IS THE WORST POSSIBLE CANDITATE TO HAVE LIVED. I WISH HIM BAD LUCK FOREVER. NOTHING PERSONAL THOUGH. YOU ONLY SEE WHAT HE HAS MADE OF TOPSIA. COMPARE WITH THE REST OF PLACES. TOPSIA IS TOTALLY DISRUPTED, CHEAP AND FULL OF ILLEGAL BUILDINGS. JUST SEE JAVED AHMED KHAN HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR TOPSIA IN THESE 15 YEARS - EVERLASTING WATERLOGGING, NEVER ENDING POWERCUTS, EASY THEFT OF CESC LINES, SUCH GOOD REPUTED SCHOOLS (JUST NAME 1 ), VERY NICE DRINKING WATER FACILITIES FOR RESIDENTS OF TOPSIA, SO MANY OTHER SOCIAL WORK. THANK GOD - HE DIDNT WIN - PARK CIRCUS WOULD HAVE BECOME ANOTHER TOPSIA.
THANK YOU MR. JAVED KKHAND - WE SHOULD SAY AND THIS MUCH HELP IS ENOUGH FOR US - PLEASE PITY ON US AND LET US LIVE FREELY. COME ON PEOPLE VOICE YOUR SAY - AND REMOVE THIS PEST FROM THIS SOCIETY SO THAT THERE MAY BE A BETTER PLACE ON EARTH - KINDLY PUBLISH THIS COMMENT IF YOU CAN

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