The mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed on Monday met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who assured that his government will use all its resources to trace her son.
Ahmed, an MSc first-year student, has been missing for the last 17 days, following an alleged altercation with some ABVP students.
Najeeb's mother, Fatima Nafees, who accompanied by Ahmed's relatives and a JNU Students Union (JNUSU) delegation, met the Delhi CM at his residence.
I am with you and will do whatever is required to help trace him. It’s a very serious matter and the government will not let you down, and use all its resources available to help you out.Arvind Kejriwal
"I would leave no stone unturned in helping find Najeeb," Kejriwal was quoted as saying in a statement issued here.
The JNUSU delegation, headed by its General Secretary Satarupa Chakraborty, submitted a memorandum to the Chief Minister demanding his intervention in ensuring strong action by the police, which students said had failed to trace Najeeb so far, even after a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was set up.
The students raised the issue of the university administration’s “failure” with the Chief Minister and apprised him of “total abdication of institutional responsibility” and its “partisan role” in the entire affair.
It was also brought to his notice that a Proctorial Inquiry which was constituted to probe the incident, also failed to do justice with the victim, and instead termed him an "accused" in its report.
“The JNU administration on 17 October, far from assuring Najeeb’s safety, found it more important to refer to him as an ‘accused’ and thus, added to his fears of being prosecuted,” the memorandum read.
"The Warden's meeting of 16 October had already taken cognisance of group violence on Najeeb and decided for enquiry into it. Yet the 17 October release by JNU administration had no mention whatsoever of the attacks on Najeeb himself," it said.
Najeeb mysteriously went missing on the intervening night of 14-15 October after being beaten by a 20-strong mob of students who had gone campaigning to his door for hostel elections.
He had been allotted a room in Mahi-Mandvi hostel in the campus 15 days before the incident.
It has since been alleged by many eyewitnesses that the group of students who had beaten up Najeeb belonged to Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), an RSS student wing.
With inputs from IANS
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