CBI goes to JNU to probe Najeeb case

New Delhi: A CBI team on Monday visited Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to probe the mysterious disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed, a student who had gone missing from his hostel on October 16, 2016.

Sources said the agency sleuths are looking into allegations of a scuffle between Ahmed and ABVP students in JNU’s Mahi-Mandvi hostel and the circumstances that may have led to it as well as other events that preceded his disappearance. Najeeb’s mother Fatima Nafees recently met CBI officers investigating the case.

She gave details of the events before her son disappeared from his hostel.

Najeeb Ahmed (27), a student of School of Biotechnology and a native of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, went missing on October 16 following an on-campus scuffle allegedly with the members of some other student group.

The high court had transferred the case to the CBI after the Delhi police said it has carried out the investigation in a fair manner searching for Ahmad across India, but came up with zero success. The court’s direction came while hearing a habeas corpus plea filed by Ahmad’s mother that her son be produced by the police and the Delhi government before the court. According to Fatima, Najeeb had returned to the university after holidays on October 13, 2016. In the night of October 15-16, he had called his mother and told her that something wrong has happened to him, the woman had said in her FIR. His room partner Kasim had told Fatima that there was a fight and he was injured, she had said. Next day, she took a bus from Uttar Pradesh Bulandhshahr to meet Najeeb. When she reached Delhi, she spoke to him and asked him to meet at his hostel, Fatima had said. In her complaint, she had said after reaching his room in Mahi Hostel room 106, there was no trace of Najeeb. Since then, there is no trace of Najeeb.