Rizwanur case: Judge receives threat

Security has been tightened for a metropolitan magistrate, who was hearing the Rizwanur Rehman death case, after he received a threat letter, the police said in Kolkata.

Security has been tightened for a metropolitan magistrate, who was hearing the Rizwanur Rehman death case, after he received a threat letter, the police said in Kolkata on Saturday.

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"The seventh metropolitan magistrate Bibhas Chatterjee is being given special security cover after he received a threat letter on Thursday afternoon. Armed policemen have been posted outside the court and his chamber. There will be armed guards to escort him to his residence," Jawed Shamim, city police deputy commissioner (detective department), told reporters on Saturday.

"As for the identity of the letter sender, we are looking into the matter," Shamim added.

According to a police official at the city police headquarters, Chatterjee found a postcard lying at his desk on Thursday afternoon.

"The letter without the sender's name said that if Chatterjee cared for his life, either he must step aside from the Rizwanur Rehman death case or let go Rizwanur's industrialist in-laws Todis, who were accused of provoking him to commit suicide," said the official, requesting anonymity.

Chatterjee issued the arrest warrant against the Todis when he was in charge of the 14th Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court.

Rizwanur, a 30-year-old graphic designer working with a multimedia firm, was found dead Sep 21 last year near the railway tracks at Kolkata's Patipukur suburb, barely a month after marrying Hindu girl Priyanka Todi, daughter of industrialist Ashok Todi.