Kolkata: Two of the four police officers who had allegedly threatened computer graphics teacher Rizwanur Rehman to part with his Hindu wife were today interrogated by the CID, as the CPI-M said that even senior police officers will not be spared.
The two IPS police officers, DC (Headquarters) Gyanwant Singh and DC DD 1 Ajay Kumar, were questioned for five hours from 7:00 am, CID sources said. CPI-M patriarch Jyoti Basu had yesterday said that two of the four police officers, indicating Assistant Commissioner Sukanti Chakraborty and Sub-inspector Krishendu Das, both of the Anti-Rowdy section, had been removed and even Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee might not be spared.
Home Secretary P R Roy, however, had said that no decision had been taken for the removal of the police chief and if necessary, action might be taken against the two IPS officers. The CID had submitted its interim report in which it failed to come to any conclusion over Rizwanur's death nor did it accuse anyone specifically.
CPI-M state secretary Biman Bose told reporters today "Whatever will come up in the enquiry, action will be taken accordingly, irrespective of their positions even if they be IPS officials." Meanwhile, the dissident Jagmohan Dalmiya lobby today asked Prasun Mukherjee, Cricket Association of Bengal president, not to preside over the October 8 working committee meeting to allow members "full freedom" to raise the issue of alleged links of office-bearers with industrialist Ashok Todi, the father-in-law of Rizwanur Rehman.