The police has denied all charges of manhandling her and other protesters.
Twenty three days after Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed went missing, his mother Fatima Nafees was on Sunday dragged on the road by the Delhi Police as she resisted her detention during a protest near the India Gate.
"Najeeb's mother was manhandled by the Delhi Police. Beaten up and dragged into the police van. Later, she was taken to Mayapuri police station," JNU Students Union member Satarupa Chakraborty said. "The police blocked all the ways to India Gate and detained the peaceful protesters from the National Archive to different police stations," she added.
"Police have detained us and have brutally beaten us and have broken our mobile phones. Many protesters have been detained and are being taken to different locations. They openly threatened us that they will shoot us, saying that we have been hiding Najeeb for the last 23 days," JNUSU president Mohit Pandey said.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also reached Mandir Marg police station, where Najeeb's mother was kept, and said, "Had police have taken such efforts in finding Najeeb as they are taking in stopping protesters, they would have found him long back."
"I was hit in the leg and on the shoulder while my aunt got hurt in the hand. This is a shameful act. We went there for a peaceful protest and they did this to us," said Najeeb's sister Sadaf Musharraf.
The police has denied all charges of manhandling saying, "During the JNU protest on Sunday, none have been manhandled. A group of JNU students along with Najeeb's mother Fatima Nafees assembled near ASI. They were persuaded not to move towards India Gate. They didn't agree and were adamant to move ahead. They all were taken into a bus to Mayapuri police station. Fatima Nafees was duly attended to by lady police officers and is now being dropped to her place of stay".
Earlier on Sunday, Kejriwal along with a delegation of JNU students on Sunday met President Pranab Mukherjee and submitted a letter to him seeking his intervention in the case."I met President Mukherjee to seek his intervention on Najeeb. He assured of all support and said he will seek a report from the MHA and the JNU administration," Kejriwal tweeted.
Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year MSc student at JNU, has been missing since October 15, following an altercation with some ABVP activists the night before.
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