Fatima Nafees, mother of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad, on Wednesday took part in a sit-in protest in front of the CBI headquarters here, demanding that the central investigation agency find her son.
The family members of Najeeb, along with the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), had organised the protest after the Delhi High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for not making any headway in the case of the student’s disappearance. “Find my son, I don’t want any reasons,” Nafees told reporters and wondered why the Government was “so scared” to take action in the case.
The court had reprimanded the CBI, saying it had placed on record the same status report submitted earlier, and added that the case had not been transferred to the central probe agency “for fun”. The protesters also threatened to block all the gates of the CBI office and hold such demonstrations every day till the whereabouts of Najeeb were known.
“We were happy when the case was transferred to the CBI. But shockingly, the same report was submitted yesterday. The CBI is making a mockery of the system. We will be protesting again and again till Najeeb is found,” said Khalid Saifi, a family friend.
Some protesters demanded that they be allowed to probe the case if the investigating agencies were “scared of something”.
“let us do the investigation if you are not able to do so or are scared of something. We will find Najeeb,” a JNU student said in his speech.