Anger broke out at the home of the maternal uncle of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, as the Delhi Crime branch, along with Uttar Pradesh police, carried out a search at his residence on Saturday. Alleging high-handedness by the police, Najeeb’s family said that the police had misbehaved with him.
“At 4:30 am, around 40 police personnel, of both Delhi police and UP police, stormed my uncle Ashraf Qadri's resident in Badaun and treated him like a criminal. They misbehaved with him and asked him inappropriate questions regarding Najeeb's disappearance,” said Najeeb's brother Mujeeb Ahmed.
The family claimed that it was not just Najeeb’s uncle’s house that was searched. According to them, police also searched the house of his uncle's friend Tarruf Shujat. “They (police) had checked my brother's cellphone from which the last call was made to his friend Tarruf Shujat, who lives near my brother’s place," said Najeeb's mother Fatima Nafees. “They stormed into his house. They have checked their phones (Najeeb’s uncle and his uncle’s friend) and taken their SIM cards along with them," she alleged.
Police officials, however, refuted the claims of the family members and said that they only went to interact with them to know more about the case.
Calling it an attempt to scare the family so that they give up and return to their native place, Badaun, Nafees said, "Instead of searching the houses of Najeeb’s assaulters they are harassing us. They want me to leave Delhi and give up my fight to search my son. But they should know, I won't give up and I won't go back without my son.”
Najeeb Ahmed, 27, a first year MSc student at JNU, went missing on October 15 last year following a scuffle with some Akhil Bhartiya Vidhya Parishad (ABVP) members on the night before. His mother and brother have been staying at their relative's house in Delhi since then in a bid to find him.
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