The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily suspended the trial proceedings in the Rizwanur Rehman murder case till the Calcutta High Court disposes the petition filed by industrialist Ashok Todi, an accused in the case.After the West Bengal Government, it was the turn of Todi to approach the apex court challenging the CBI’s move to chargesheet and proceed in the case. Accepting the argument of senior advocate Harish Salve, Todi’s counsel, that the high court is seized of a petition filed by him challenging the CBI’s decision to chargesheet him in the case, a three-member bench ordered the high court to dispose of the petition “at the earliest”.However, the bench refused to accept Todi’s plea that the trial court should be restrained from passing any order on framing of charges. The sessions court is scheduled to frame charges on October 27. The apex bench did not pass any order in this regard.Todi along with six others was chargesheeted by the CBI on September 22 for alleged abetment of Rizwanur’s suicide. A Metropolitan Magistrate in Kolkata has asked the accused to appear before it on October 27.Todi sought a stay on the proceedings in the trial court alleging that the CBI was only allowed to find out the nature of the death of Rizwanur but it filed a chargesheet.A similar argument was raised by the state Government, which said the CBI had illegally registered a murder case in the unnatural death of computer graphics teacher Rizwanur.
