The curious disappearance of JNU’s Najeeb Ahmed

New Delhi: Time : 11.30. Date : October 14 . Three students visited 27-year-old Najeeb Ahmed’s  Mahi Hostel’s Room Number 106 in the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University campus to campaign for hostel elections. A scuffle took place between first year MSc student Najeeb and others. Hearing the noise and commotion, other residents of Mahi reach the room and find three students assaulting Najeeb. At this juncture, the residents, seeing another group of angry students and charging towards Najeeb’s room locked him up in his room in an attempt to keep him safe. The security personnel on reaching the hostel open the door. Despite the presence of security personnel, 10-15 students attacked Najeeb.

After the attack, the residents once again locked Najeeb in the washroom and blocked the entrance, waiting for the hostel warden to reach. As senior warden Dr Sushil Kumar reached the place, they start moving to his office on the ground floor. Despite the presence of the senior warden and the security personnel, Najeeb was intimidated and communally targeted allegedly by the same group of students on the way to the warden’s office. The JNUSU president and other hostel residents who had come to stop the attack were also assaulted by the same 10-15 students. In the warden’s office, in front of the senior warden Dr Sushil Kumar, and the other wardens, the group threatened Najeeb for his life. They repeatedly told the warden not to initiate any proceedings and leave Najeeb with them. Despite being present at the site all along, the security personnel did not collect any video evidence of the assault and the warden failed to intervene. Finally from the morning after the attack, Najeeb went missing. The last person to spot him was a rickshaw driver who dropped him off at Jamia Nagar at 8 pm on the same night that he was beaten up. The mysterious disappearance of the young student has baffled one and all as the 70-000-odd Delhi Police security personnel seems to be having no clue about his whereabouts. After all, where Badaun-based Najeeb disappeared remains the most sensational unsolved mysteries of 2016. It was only after the high court  directions, that too after about two months that 600 police personnel along with sniffer dogs launched a massive two-day search for  the missing student at JNU.

Alleging that her son has been held captive, Najeeb’s mother Fatima Nafees who has been camping in Delhi. “I am a diabetic. I have been on the streets for months. I have knocked everyone’s door and will continue to do so till the case is solved.”