The Delhi Police's Crime Branch, which is probing the missing case of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmad, has based their investigations mainly on three theories: missing student suffering severe depression, being abducted by enemies and accident, among other things.
Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime Branch, Ravindra Yadav on Monday said they have also based their investigations on the theory of accident which may have caused injury or death to Ahmad.
"From the date of Ahmad's disappearance till now, we have also kept the accident theory in mind. This would mean if Ahmad had met any sort of accident which might have caused him injury or death. Hence along with searches in all hospitals in the national Capital, we have also checked hospital records to find out if he was admitted to any hospital or not. We also have checked records of each and every mortuary in Delhi. No clues could be recovered yet," said the Joint CP.
Also, police have been probing the case on severe depression theory as it was found that Ahmad was on medication for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) since 2012. Based on this, police have also covered a lot of chemist shops in the national capital region (NCR) and other places that may have been visited by Ahmad.
Psychologists and mental health experts were also contacted by police for this purpose. Ahmad was taking two kinds of medicine, and chemists have been asked to note down details of any
young person who buys both medicines.
Ahmed's photos have been shown to find out if he's already visited any of the shops for the medicines.
Police had found Pari 10, an anti-depressant, and another medicine from Ahmed's room. Ahmad's mother had said her son was prescribed Flunil (20mg) and Zolfresh (5mg). The first is used to treat depression and OCD and the other can be called sleeping pills.
As far as the abduction theory is concerned, a senior police official in the investigation team said probe is being carried out on from this angle. lie detector tests have been planned on some students including ABVP members who had entered into a scuffle with Ahmad, added Yadav.
"Although investigations suggest that Ahmad had left JNU alone, taken an auto rickshaw from Nelson Mandela Marg and had asked the driver to driver to drop him to Jamia Millia Islamia. The auto driver had identified Ahmad from the picture we showed him. He said that Ahmad did not utter a word when he was seated inside the TSR and had also paid the agreed upon fare on reaching Jamia," said the official.