Heavy police force was deployed at the protest site to avoid any untoward incident
Hundreds of students on Friday staged a protest outside CBI headquarters seeking information on the status of the inquiry into the case of missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmad.
Shouting slogans like "we are Najeeb" and "Find Najeeb", the protesters, including students from JNU, Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia alone with Ahmad's mother Fatima Nafees and cousin Sadaf Musharraf, reached the CBI headquarters at around 2:30 pm. Heavy police force was deployed at the protest site to avoid any untoward incident.
Minor scuffles broke out between the police and students when some of them tried to jump off the barricades. But the situation was brought under control.
Accusing CBI of doing nothing concrete to find her son, Nafees said, "It's been six months since CBI has been given charge of the case but no one has interrogated the ABVP students who assaulted Najeeb. In the beginning, police prevented us from reporting names of ABVP students and promised us that they would find Najeeb in 24 hours. But later on, they failed to look for him.We call the CBI office every day to know about developments in the case."
Echoing similar sentiments, Ahmad's sister Sadaf Musharraf said, \"I keep looking for my brother everywhere. On railway stations, Nizamuddin Dargah, among drunkards on footpaths, because I think someone could have held him captive and injected him with drugs or left him on the footpath. Even if the police or CBI tell us that my brother is no more we will be satisfied, but right now our state of mind is in shock."
The protesters, including the family members of Ahmad, were continuing their agitation by the time this report was filed.
October 15 will mark a year since Ahmad had gone missing from JNU's Mahi Mandvi hostel following an alleged scuffle with some members of the RSS-backed Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a night before.
After Ahmad had gone missing, the Delhi police had registered a case of abduction and offered a reward for any information on his whereabouts. Following orders from Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, the Delhi Police had also formed a special team to find Ahmad.
In May, the Delhi High Court transferred the case to the CBI. However, no breakthrough has been achieved in the case so far.
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