JNU student Najeeb Ahmad case: Hearing scheduled for October 27

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday scheduled the hearing in the missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad case for October 27, news agency ANI reported.

The move comes days after the court pulled up the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for its "complete lack of interest" in probing the disappearance of the JNU student. Najeeb has now been missing for nearly over a year.

A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Chander Shekhar said during arguments, it was "very unhappy" with CBI after contradictions appeared in what was orally submitted in the court and what it has indicated in its status report.

"What sort of supervision is this? If this supervision by the DIG, then what would happen if there is no supervision? Does the DIG read what the Inspector has said in the report? He probably does not get time to read reports there (in office). Let him come here and read it then" the court said.

Earlier, the court had also directed the central agency to take all necessary steps to trace Najeeb, while hearing a plea filed by his mother Fatima Nafees.

Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year student of Jawaharlal Nehru University, went missing after a brawl with members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) at Mahi-Mandavi Hostel in Delhi on October 2016. Despite several search operations within and outside the campus premise the police have failed to locate any whereabouts of the student since then.

Delhi Police registered a kidnapping case and a special investigative team (SIT) was formed to trace him. The probe was later handed to the Crime Branch. The reward for information about Najeeb's whereabouts was increased by the police from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh but no one has come forward with any information.

The court handed over the probe to the federal probe agency five months ago but there has been no information about the 28-year-old whose disappearance remains the most talked-about issue on JNU campus.

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