The Crime Branch is mulling to conduct a lie detector test on Thursday on the room-mate of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmad, who had been missing for over two months.
After the two-day tooth combing operations on the sprawling campus of the JNU which ended on Tuesday evening, the Delhi Police is likely to conduct polygraph tests on all close friends and acquaintances of the first year MSc student Ahmad.
According to Ravindra Singh Yadav, the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch), police are planning to conduct the polygraph on the roommate of Ahmad on Wednesday. The official said they received consent from the Delhi High Court to go ahead with the lie detector test. “We are planning to conduct the polygraph test on other friends of Ahmad. Further probe is on,” said Yadav.
Starting on Monday morning, the Crime Branch officers armed with the order of the Delhi High Court, carried out a search of every nook and corner of the JNU campus to find Ahmad.
A senior police official said all the units of the Delhi Police, including the Special Cell, Special Branch and the local police pooling more than 600 personnel, scanned the hostels, residential areas, academic blocks and forested area on Monday till 5 pm. Help of Mounted Police was also taken to scan the vast area but nothing was found.
In continuation of the exercise, the Crime Branch officials on Tuesday too carried out a search operation within the JNU campus. While 60 per cent of the campus was covered on Monday, the rest was covered on Tuesday where we covered the residential complex and other areas of the JNU campus.