The CBI said that even after having exhausted all its resources, they have not got any input pertaining to his location.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), headed by Alok Verma, declared on Tuesday that they would not be able to trace missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed. The agency said before the High Court that they want to close the investigation in the matter as they are clueless about him and will not be able to trace him. The agency also put a big question mark on the first investigators -- the Delhi Police -- of the case saying that the police planted evidence and witnesses. It is pertinent to mention that when Delhi Police Crime Branch was investigating the case, the force was headed by Alok Verma himself. He took charge as a CBI director on February 1, 2017.
The CBI said that even after having exhausted all its resources, they have not got any input pertaining to his location. The agency told a bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel that they will file a closure report soon.
Ahmed, a first-year student of JNU, went missing after a brawl with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Mahi-Mandavi Hostel in Delhi on October 14, 2016.
The case was shifted to CBI after Delhi Police failed to trace him.
Shocked and broken by the CBI declaration, Ahmed's mother Fatima Nafees said, "I am ashamed and heartbroken that our country's supposedly finest agency has decided to wash its hands off the case. The CBI admits to me that my son was assaulted but in the court claims that nothing had happened to my son. I am shocked at such blatant lies."
In the court, while handing over the status report in a sealed cover to the bench, CBI's counsel Nikhil Goel said that the report contains details of the steps taken by them and also the statements of the suspects into the matter.
He also informed the court that they have grilled the auto-rickshaw driver, who told them that he was forced by Delhi Police Crime Branch sleuths to give a statement that he had picked 27-year-old Ahmed, a student of MSc in Biotechnology and dropped him at Jamia Millia Islamia in south Delhi on the next date of the incident. The driver's statement was recorded under duress by the Delhi Police, the CBI submitted in the high court.
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The CBI said that even after having exhausted all its resources, they have not got any input pertaining to his location. The case was shifted to CBI after Delhi Police failed to trace him.
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