​ Missing JNU boy: AMU students block train tracks to protest cop inaction

Agra: Students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Saturday blocked train tracks at the railway station and also road traffic in the city protesting "failure" of Delhi Police to trace missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who has been missing for 76 days since October 15. After police had to resort to a mild cane charge, the students courted arrests and took out a procession against the use of force by the police.
Aligarh senior superintendent of police Rajesh Pandey justified the police action, saying that the students had not taken permission to carry out their protest march. “We stopped them at the proctor’s office, but they broke the barricades and reached Subhash Chowk where they were stopped,” he said. He said an FIR has been registered and around 150 students were detained during the protest.
According to police officials, two companies of Rapid Action Force and four companies of Provincial Armed Constabulary along with local police personnel had been deputed to maintain law and order.
Dubbing the police action “unjustified and undemocratic,” AMU Students’ Union president Faizul Hassan claimed that several students were injured in the lathi charge. He accused the police of hitting students with lathis on their heads and alleged that three students were admitted in hospital with head injuries and fractures.
The AMU Students' Union had earlier demanded a CBI inquiry into Ahmed’s mysterious disappearance and had also submitted a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee. In their memorandum, the union had blamed certain outfits for spreading unrest in universities across the country. "These organisations were also involved in the killing of Rohit Vemula of Hyderabad Central University and a professor in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh,” the memorandum had stated.
Following the police’s cane charge, the union shot off another memorandum to the President, terming the attack on them by the RAF and PAC as “brutal” and “injustice” against students. The memorandum stated that instead of tracing Ahmed, the Delhi administration and the police were harassing Ahmed’s family members and shielding the criminals.
Ahmed, an MSc Biotechnology student, went missing on October 15 after a scuffle allegedly with ABVP affiliated students at his hostel on the JNU campus.