Ashok Todi in judicial custody

KOLKATA: Prime accused in the Rizwanur Rahman death case Ashok Todi on Monday was sent to judicial custody till December 12 after he surrendered before a city court here on the direction of the Supreme Court.

Todi, who had allegedly been evading arrest for some time, had moved the Supreme Court challenging an arrest warrant issued by the metropolitan magistrate at Bankshall Court. The apex court had directed him to surrender before the magistrate.

Todi's counsel Pradip Ghosh prayed for bail plea before magistrate Madhumita Roy claiming that he was ill and had been exonerated of any accusation by Rizwanur, whose body was found beside railway tracks in September last year, a month after he married the industrialist's daughter, Priyanka.

He stated that as per the last letter of Rizwanur before his alleged suicide, the computer graphics teacher had stated "I forgive my father-in-law Ashok Todi because he is a father."

CBI counsel Partha Tapaswi opposed the bail plea submitting that Todi was the main accused and as such should not be given bail. Appearing for Rizwanur's mother, Kishwar Jahan, counsel Kalyan Banerjee made an impassionate plea opposing the bail petition.