To locate the missing 27-year-old JNU student Najeeb Ahmad, the Delhi Police has formed about 50 teams who are knocking the doors of madrasas across the national Capital, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The investigators have deployed teams in Jamia area of Delhi and Aligarh Muslim University in UP. The city police have alerted all the State police forces across the country about the missing student. A senior police officer said that pamphlets carrying Najeeb’s picture and information will soon be put up all over the country. It is reliably learnt that psychoanalytical profiling of Najeeb was also done after his doctors were consulted.
Najeeb’s email, facebook and cell phone conversations are also being examined and investigation so far shows that he was under depression because most of his batchmates were younger than him. He had reportedly been preparing for various competitive exams for the past four years.
Preliminary investigations show that Ahmad was taking anti-depressant pills and he was the elder son in the family and his younger brother was a civil service aspirant. He had graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and thereafter went to Jamia University. “He joined JNU against the wishes of his mother. And shifted to the hostel only few days before he went missing,” said the officer.
The officer said that Ahmad was very much attached to his mother and after the incident he called her who thereafter left for Delhi but unfortunately when she reached Anand Vihar, he went missing. “Our top priority is to trace him and we believe that he may have taken shelter in madrasa or dargahs. We have deployed teams in three top universities.”
Investigators said that they have also checked with his relatives staying in Jamia Nagar, where he was staying before he moved to JNU, but he has not made any contact with them.
Ahmad, 27, a student of School of Biotechnology and a native of Badaun in Uttar Pradesh, went missing following an on-campus scuffle allegedly with the members of ABVP on October 15.
The investigators stated that they have verified over 300 auto-rickshaws plying in the area but could not trace the vehicle which he took after coming out of the campus.
“We are still trying to trace the vehicle,” said the officer, adding, “apart from this, 150 extra police personnel have been deployed in each district to trace him.” “About 20,000 posters with picture of Najeeb Ahmad and his information have already been circulated all over Delhi.”
Police Commissioner Alok Kumar Verma has also asked specialised units of the force -- Crime Branch and Special Cell - to look for the missing student. Both elite units have formed a team and have started looking for him.
Interestingly, the Special Investigating Team formed on direction of Mr Verma is headed by former top anti-terror officer Manishi Chandra, who has cracked several top cases, including Indian Premier league spot fixing case and nabbed most of the members of banned terror group Indian Mujahideen.