Delhi the court ends the investigation of JNU student’s disappearance

Nine years ago, an Indian student disappeared into thin air.

Najeeb ahmed studied biotechnology At the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru (JNU) University in Delhi, when he mysteriously disappeared in October 2016.

On the night before his disappearance, the then 27-year-old, who lived in one of the university’s residential hostels, was involved in a brawl with Achilles Bharatia members Vidi Parisad (ABVP), a right-wing student group. The students denied any involvement in his disappearance.

For years, the Crime Agency in India, the Central Investigation Bureau (CBI), has been trying to understand what may have happened with G -n Ahmed – the agency took the case from the City Police in 2017.

The Delhi court now has finally closed the investigation after CBI said it had operated all possible results in the case.

“As a note of separation, the court is seriously hoping that Najeeb Ahmed will be followed soon,” the court said in the order, which was announced last month.

However, the family of Ahmed claims that the investigation was not correctly conducted and said they would appeal the decision in the Supreme Court.

“What message sends that the premiere agency for the India investigation agency has failed to find a missing student from one of the best universities in India?” The mother of G -n Ahmed Fatima Nafes told BBC Hindi.

“We will not give up until we find our son.”

Born in a village in Uttar Pradesh, G -N -Ahmed, the son of a carpenter, was the biggest of four. His family made many casualties to support his JNU education.

“After graduating from his bachelor’s degree, he was adamant that he wanted to study at JNU,” G -Ja Nafees said.

“I told him you could accept recognition, but you wouldn’t stay in the hostel. You’re too naive. But he didn’t listen to me.”

On the night of October 14, 2016, Ahmed reported that he was facing a group of ABVP -related students who were conducting a hostel election campaign. JNU is known for its vital and intense student policy, with ideological groups often encountering campus issues.

In his testimony to CBI, his roommate Mohd Kasim said that he was wounded in the dispute and should be taken to a public hospital where he allegedly refused treatment.

Doctors told him that they could not heal his wounds without a formal complaint about crimes that was filed with police, according to his roommate.

According to the court order, Ahmed chose not to file a complaint and returned to the campus. The next day he disappeared, leaving behind his phone, wallet and his clothes in his dorm room.

A CBI report said that he had last used his phone and a laptop at about 10 am a day when he disappeared. A hostel teacher told the agency that he saw Mr. Ahmed enter here-here-here and leave the campus.

Nafees, who was informed about the brawl by the roommate of G -n -Ahmed, was on his way to Delhi to see her son. She arrived in the morning and after finding him missing, filed a complaint about missing faces on October 15, 2016.

There were no progress days. The protests erupted on the campus while students and activists accused authorities of inaction.

In November 2016, Mrs. Nafees filed a petition to the Delhi Supreme Court, accusing police of being “slow, incorrectly directed and subjective” and called for the probe observed by the court.

A month later, the Delhi police conducted two extensive searches using Sniffer dogs through the spreading campus of JNU – but nothing was found again.

In May 2017, the court brought the CBI investigation.

A year later, CBI told the court that it had exhausted all possible potential customers – and asked the bench to end the case.

The agency said it had looked at more than 500 witnesses, collecting information from fees, buses, trains and flights and sought after hospitals and morgues, but it had found nothing.

One million rupees ($ 11,600; 8,600 British pounds) information Regarding Ahmed, he also failed to produce results, investigators say.

The case was dragged for two more years when, in 2020, Nafees returned to court, this time to challenge CBI’s conclusions.

She claims that the agency has failed to study the students involved in the fight with their son. She said they had a “clear motive”, threatened him and had to be arrested. CBI denied all the claims, saying that they had not left “no stone overturned” in the search for G -n -Ahmed.

The agency said it had followed the telephone seats of the nine students participating in the match with G -n -Ahmed that evening, but did not find evidence that linked them to its disappearance.

Explaining his decision to finally close the case, a court in Delhi said CBI had investigated “all plausible paths” diligently, but “no reliable information can be obtained” about the location of G -n Ahmed.

The judge rejected the request of G -ja Nafees, noting that while witnesses confirm verbal threats, there was no “direct or indirect” evidence linking the disappearance of G -n -Ahmed to the fight against ABVP members.

“Such shifts and exchanges are not unheard” in the loaded atmosphere of JNU, adds the order.

However, the court added that CBI could reopen the case if new information came out.

The order was a huge blow to the family and the well-wishers of Mr. Ahmed.

Colin Gonsalvs, who represents the Nafees at the Delhi Supreme Court in 2018, said he was still questioning the investigation.

“Police regularly arrest people for minor crimes in India. It is then shocking that none of the students had been remained for questioning,” he said.

Nafees claims that her son’s religion has influenced the seriousness of the investigation.

“If the victim were an Hindu boy, would she answer the police the same way?” she asked.

“They would demolish suspect houses,” she said, citing increasing cases where the homes of crime -accused persons were bulldous by Indian authorities. The BBC turned to CBI for comment.

However, the agency constantly maintains that they have performed the probe impartially. In 2018, the Delhi Supreme Court said they had not found evidence that CBI was investigating the case unfairly or “in politically forced.”

N -Nafees says he is not fighting. Every October 15, on the day her son disappeared, she joins the JNU candle march in his memory. Hope is darkened, but the wait continues.

“Sometimes I wonder if I should put a sign outside our house,” said Nafis Ahmed, his father.

“Our house is renovated. What if it comes, but it can’t recognize it?”

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