The Calcutta High Court has rejected the bail application of industrialist Ashok Todi who was accused of playing a major role in graphics designer Rizwanur Rehman's suicide last year. Rejecting the bail plea of the industrialist, justice B.P. Sengupta of Calcutta high Court stated that the charges brought on Ashok Todi are too strong and hence it is not possible to release him. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the Rizwanur case levied serious charges on Todi and six others.

 

The hearing of Todi's bail plea was supposed to be executed on Friday (December 12) but the differences in opinions of Justice Amit Talukdar and Justice P.S. Banerjee had forced the court to assign Sengupta to announce the verdict on Wednesday (December 17). Meanwhile, all the seven accused in the Rizwanur suicide case were produced at a city sessions court for a hearing. The case will next be heard on December 23, informed Metropolitan Magistrate Madhumita Roy.

 

Ashok Todi and six others including his brother Pradeep Todi, brother-in-law Anil Saraogi, former Kolkata police deputy commissioner Ajoy Kumar, former assistant commissioner of police Sukanti Chakraborty, sub-inspector Krishnendu Das, and Rizwanur's neighbour S.M. Moinuddin alias Pappu were accused of playing key roles in forcing Rizwanur to commit suicide. The dead body of the 30-year-old Muslim graphics designer was found near the railway tracks at Kolkata's Patipukur suburb on September 21 last year.