The students should cooperate with the police in the (Najeeb Ahmed) case. Otherwise, it will raise doubts regarding their role: Rahul Mehra
The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Monday informed the Delhi High Court (HC) that it could not carry out lie detector tests on the nine students, who were directed to join the probe in the missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student case, as they did not turn up despite multiple notices being served to them.
The Delhi Police informed the Division Bench of Justices GS Sistani and Vinod Goel that these nine students, including two former students, were served with notices on different occasions through the Vice-Chancellor (V-C) of the varsity, but they did not come forward.
“The students should cooperate with the police in the case. Otherwise, it will raise doubts regarding their role in the case,” said Advocate Rahul Mehra, lawyer for the Delhi Police.
The court was hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by missing student Najeeb Ahmed’s mother Fatima Nafees, which sought directions to the Delhi Police and the government of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi to produce her son before the court.
Najeeb, 27, a resident of Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh and a first-year MSc student at JNU, has been missing since October 15 last year, following a scuffle with some ABVP activists in the campus the night before.
The court was also informed that Najeeb’s roommate Qasim also did not turn up for the lie detector test, and the two former students, suspected of assaulting Najeeb, have refused to give even their permanent addresses.
Representing Sunil Pratap Singh, one of the nine suspected students, Advocate Sidharth Luthra moved an application, saying the court cannot compel Singh to undertake the lie detector test and the probe should be done in a fair manner.
Appearing for Najeeb’s mother, Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves then argued that the Delhi Police should put to rest the theory that he was mentally unstable as “it could lead to the police eventually concluding that he wandered off on his own”.
“It has been more than three months since my brother went missing and the police are still coming up with such excuses. They could have easily conducted the lie detector test on these nine suspects, if they actually wanted to. Why are they giving them a VIP treatment?” rued Najeeb’s sister Sadaf Musharraf.
Questioning ABVP’s role in the matter, JNU Students’ Union President Mohit Pandey said: “If the nine accused from ABVP are, in fact, innocent, why are they refusing consent for the lie detector test? Why are they refusing to even receive Crime Branch notices?”
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police had recently arrested a man from the Maharajgang area in UP for allegedly making a ransom call to Najeeb’s relatives, demanding Rs 20 lakh for his release.
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