By Khushboo Khan, MuslimMirror.com,
New Delhi: The mystery behind the death of a 22-year-old student from Jamia Millia Islamia deepened after police claimed that it was a case of suicide but the family said it was a cold-blooded murder.
Rizwan Khan, a resident of Subhash Nagar in the national capital and a second year Jamia student, was found dead inside his Swift VDI car parked in a colony, with bullet injuries on his head , in south Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar on December 5, last year.
The police said that a preliminary probe has revealed that Khan was in love with the woman but despite his advances, he wasn’t getting a response from her. Spurned, he planned to kill himself, said the cops adding that the boy’s mobile phone, which was recovered from the spot, was analysed the next day of the incident where the conversation between him and the woman were scrutinised.
There, said the investigators, they saw that the girl was ignoring his advances which had agitated him a lot.
But the deceased family cried a foul play.
According to the family, Khan – a state-level hockey player – left home on December 4 with Rs 2 lakh for purchasing a car, but he did not return home till late night. One of his mobile phone was switched off, but the another was working, said the family.
When his brother reportedly called on his alternate number, a women from Khan’s female friend house received the call and said that somebody has delivered a bag with Rs 2 lakh and a mobile phone at her residence on December 4 afternoon. She refused to share her address.
Khan’s family – say the kins – got a phone call the next morning from the female friend’s house and the caller, presumably her father, asked his father to collect the bag and mobile phone.
They said when Khan’s father and brother reached the given address, they found the body of the boy lying in a pool of blood inside the car. A country-made pistol was found in his left hand, while he was lying dead on the driver’s seat.
Khan met his female friend, who is also a hockey player and belongs to Assam, two-and-a-half years ago. She is pursuing post graduation from a respected institution at Rohtak in Haryana. She lives with her family in a government colony at Sarojini Nagar.
Both used to practice together and were very close to each other.
Khan’s father Shareef Khan, an MTNL employee, told MuslimMirror.com, “He is disappointed with the police probe. The police is in hurry to close the case and therefore, they are calling it a case of suicide. My son was not a coward. He was very happy with his life. A few days back, he decided to take over the family business.”
“Cetain questions do not let us digest the suicide theory. His body was lying on the driving seat of the car in a well-mannered way. The seat was stretched back (probably to adjust the body). His hands and gun were on his stomach. The pistal was on the left side as he shot himself with left hand. But right handed man. His right temple was pierced by the bullet but there was no blood stain on the car window or elsewhere were in a vertical direction,” he said asking that “how many coincidences could happen to a case”.
Several students of Jamia Millia Islamia held a protest at the university campus on December 23 and demand for CBI Investigation. The students also asked the Jamia administration to intervene in the whole matter. They have threatened to stage another protest the university administration does not intervene and press for handing over the investigation to the central probing agency.