After demanding a CBI inquiry for an impartial probe behind the mysterious death of computer graphics designer Rizwanur Rehman, the victim’s family expressed its frustration here on Saturday following reports that CBI is understood to have zeroed in on the suicide theory and not a pre-planned murder.

“We have no reason to be believe that CBI has quashed the murder theory even though the local media reports quoted the CBI blaming the death of Rizwanur on suicide.It's extremely sad that even before the submission of the probe report to the Calcutta High Court, contents of the same are being leaked out,” Rizwanur’s elder brother Ruqbanur told Deccan Herald here.

“We have reasons to question the authenticity of these media reports. However, if the same is found to be true after CBI’s submission of the report to the High Court,  then, it’s definitely amazing. We’ll seek to find out how the report got selectively leaked even before its submission,” Ruqbanur said. 

Both vernacular and English media have been flush with reports from New Delhi that CBI investigation had purportedly ruled out murder and instead blamed the onus of Rizwanur’s suicide on seven after being armed with “scientific and electronic evidences”.

“We in the family firmly believe it was a perfect case of pre-planned murder and not suicide. That’s why we have sought an impartial CBI probe after the state CID had come up with the same report,” Ruqbanur pointed out.

When it was pointed out that CBI reportedly succeeded in recovering a portion of vital data from the hard disk of a relative of Rizwanur that “pinpoints” suicide, Ruqbanur wondered whether the opinion of experts had been taken into account before arriving at the suicide theory.

The experts had repeatedly stated that the manner in which the body of the IT designer was recovered from a spot beside the railway track and the almost near absence of wounds in the remaining parts of the body except head was highly suspicious and suggested that he was first murdered and then left beside the track to “build” the suicide theory.

A distraught Keshwar Jahan, mother of Rizwanur, claimed that she would never accept that her son could commit suicide.

“He was not that type and it’ll be gross injustice again on us if it’s passed on as suicide,” she said sobbing.

Ruqbanur, however, expressed confidence in the CBI which had “systematically” conducted the probe into his brother’s unnatural death on September 21 last year.