The parents of deceased IIT Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed have filed an application in Calcutta High Court seeking a probe into “the tardy and inept investigation” into the death.
The application has sought an “enquiry”, but lawyers who filed the petition later clarified that they meant an investigation into the role of the police and the doctors who conducted the first post-mortem.
“We want a probe to be instituted against the police and the doctors who conducted the first post-mortem for the inept investigation and misleading autopsy report,” said Ranajit Chatterjee, one of the lawyers representing Faizan’s family.
The application is part of a writ petition that is likely to be heard in the court of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha on Wednesday, sources in the court said.
The parents have said in their applications the police officers and the doctors concerned should be prosecuted under Section 201 of the IPC (causing disappearance of evidence of the offence, or giving false information to screen offender).
A Special Investigation Team “constituted by this court” should conduct the probe under “strict monitoring” of the court, the parents have said in their application.
Faizan’s remains were recently exhumed for a second post-mortem —conducted at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital — following an order of the high court. The first autopsy was conducted at Midnapore Medical College.
The police had said after the first autopsy that Faizan had committed suicide.
Justice Mantha said on June 6, after the second autopsy, the death was now the subject of an investigation into “likely homicide”.
“We did not get justice because they conducted a shoddy and inept probe to establish that my son committed suicide. Apart from finding out who murdered my son, I also want the court to institute an inquiry against who failed us,” Faizan’s mother Rehana Ahmed told The Telegraph.
In the application, the parents have said: “Enquiry be also instituted against the deputy superintendent of police, Paschim Medinipur, Dipak Sarkar, and investigating officers Samar Layek and Biswaranjan Banerjee, both of Kharagpur Town Police Station, for the tardy and inept investigation....”
The appeal says inquiry be also instituted against former West Midnapore superintendent of police Dinesh Kumar and assistant superintendent of police Rana Mukherjee.
Kumar and Layak declined comment.
Sarkar said he had no knowledge about the application by Faizan’s parents and hence, would not be able to comment on it.
Banerjee said: “I have done the investigation according to the findings of the (first) post-mortem report. It is for the doctors to discover the cause of the death.”
Mukherjee said in a text message: “I am aware of it (the application).”
Sundarlal Hembram, one of the doctors who carried out the first autopsy, declined comment.