Who is judging whom

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on Wednesday removed five police officials, including Kolkata's Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee, for their role in the Rizwanur Rahman case.

Rizwanur, a graphic designer, was married to the daughter of a powerful Hindu industrialist and mysteriously died on September 21 after alleged police harassment to leave his wife.

Rallies, candle light vigils and protests against the police forced the government to act. The Kolkata police was embarrassed when the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday transferred investigation of Rizwanur’s death to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The Chief Minister had to listen to the people voice, but did the public campaign also expedited Rizwanur’s case before the High Court? Does it require public pressure for the judiciary to act?
CNN-IBN’s Sagarika Ghose asked this on Face The Nation to Swati Ganguly, founder-member of youth group Ebong Alap, Supreme Court lawyer Kamini Jaiswal and Siddharth Luthra, criminal lawyer in the Supreme Court.

Ganguly, whose group is campaigning for Rizwanur, said young students of colleges and universities in Kolkata—“the Rang De Basanti generation”—were shocked by the intervention of the status apparatus in an individual’s private life and rights. “Rizwanur has become a symbol of the honest, hardworking and law-abiding individual who had the courage to live his life by the law,” said Ganguly.


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