Najeeb Ahmed’s case was handed over to the CBI by the Delhi High Court in May last year
A day after the CBI said that is was considering filing a closure report in the missing case of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed, his mother Fatima Nafees said that she will launch a massive protest if the investigating agency closes the matter “without reaching to a concrete conclusion”.
Ahmed’s case was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by the Delhi High Court in May, last year, after the police had failed to find any breakthrough. “The CBI is insisting on filing a closure report without investing serious efforts to find my son. It’s going to be two years since he is missing, but I did not let my hopes die. I will never let them close the case like this. I will take to the streets of Delhi and launch an andolan against it,” she said.
Ever since Ahmed, 27, a first-year MSc student at JNU had gone missing under mysterious circumstances from his hostel on October 16, 2016, Nafees has been spearheading all protests being organsied to demand justice for her son.
Ahmed had allegedly got into a scuffle with some members of RSS-backed Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a night before. “No action has been taken against those who had assaulted my son a night before he went missing. In fact, they say that there is no proof that Najeeb was assaulted. How can so many students, who witnessed the incident, lie?” she said.
A day earlier, the Delhi High Court had asked the CBI to submit a compilation of the statements given to it by the 18 students as well as the three wardens and three guards who were in the hostel on the day of the incident. “I am a woman of limited means and poor health. I am fighting this case against great financial odds and the CBI has made a mockery of my struggle,” she said.
Nafees said that the family had gone through a lot in the last one and a half year, however, she has not lost her hopes. “My heart skips a beat every time someone knocks at the door thinking that it could be my son Najeeb. I keep on wondering how will I react if someday he appears just like that. I will never stop hoping,” she said.
SILENCED PROTESTS
- Ever since Ahmed, 27, had gone missing under mysterious circumstances from his hostel on October 16, 2016, Nafees has been spearheading all protests to demand justice for her son
- Ahmed had allegedly got into a scuffle with some members of RSS-backed Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a night before
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