JNU student Najeeb Ahmed still untraceable; hearing to resume in Delhi High Court today

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will on Monday continue the hearing over the case of Najeeb Ahmed, the student from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who has been missing from October 15th last year.

Earlier in February, the Delhi Police was pulled up by the High Court over their slow progress in the case, and was asked to explore other prospects of probe like polygraph test of other persons connected with the disappeared of Ahmed, as all other leads in this case have not yielded any good result.

"The student had gone missing in October 2016, it is February now. Nearly four months have gone by and none of the leads are going anywhere. We asked for polygraph test as the other leads have not yielded any results," the Court observed.

The High Court was hearing an application by one of the nine students, who are suspects in the case, seeking recall of the High Court`s order dated 14th December and 22nd December 2016.

The application had alleged that by means of these two orders the court was regulating the manner of investigation which was prejudicing the probe and violating their rights under Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution.

The applicant had also challenged a notice issued to him by the Delhi Police to appear before the trial court on Friday to give consent for lie-detector test.

Delhi Government`s counsel opposed the application, stating that the same student had moved a similar plea through another lawyer earlier and the High Court on 23rd January had disposed it off by asking the student to come forward.

Earlier, the Delhi Police had conveyed to the high court that it has not been able to carry out lie-detector tests on nine "suspect" students, as none of them responded despite multiple notices.

A habeas corpus plea was moved by Najeeb`s mother, Fatima Nafees, who sought direction to trace her son who has been missing since the intervening night of October 14-15.Najeeb, 27, a first year M.Sc. student, went missing from his JNU hostel on the night of October 14-15, allegedly after a row with members of RSS student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). 

With ANI inputs