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Delhi HC slams CBI over missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, says agency 'lacks interest' in finding youth

The Delhi High Court on Monday said "there is complete lack of interest" on the CBI's part in probing the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed.

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|Oct 16, 2017, 13:28:43 IST
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday said "there is complete lack of interest" on the CBI's part in probing the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed.[caption id="attachment_4144753" align="alignleft" width="380"]File photo of a protest seeking action to trace Najeeb. Getty Images.

File photo of a protest seeking action to trace Najeeb. Getty Images.[/caption]The court had handed over the probe to the CBI five months ago.A bench of justices GS Sistani and Chander Shekhar observed that there was "no result either ways. No result even on paper".The strong remarks by the bench came after contradictions appeared in what the CBI said in court and what it had indicated in its status report on the issue of analysis of the calls and messages of the suspect students in the case.The court was hearing the plea of the missing student's mother, Fatima Nafees, seeking directions from the court to trace her son who disappeared from Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) Mahi-Mandvi hostel on 15 October last year.

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First Published:Oct 16, 2017, 13:12:34 IST
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