7 years of JNU student Najeeb’s disappearance, “case of nation’s indifference to a Muslim identity” ( Maktoob Media )

By Ghazala Ahmad

Najeeb Ahmed’s father wants to install a nameplate outside his house bearing the names of his three sons so that when he returns he can easily recognize his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun.

“Whenever he will come, it will not take him a second to recognize his home. He is not a child, he cherishes his home”, Fatima Nafees responds to her husband’s idea.

It has been 7 years since Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year MSc Biotechnology student was ‘abducted and disappeared’ from outside his hostel at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi by the members of Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student wing of Hindutva militant group, Rashtriya Swayem Sewak Sangh (RSS).

Initially, his case was investigated by the country’s top investigation agencies including the Delhi Police, Special Investigation Team, Crime Branch of Delhi Police, and eventually the Central Bureau of Investigation.

All of the agencies individually and collectively, however, couldn’t find a trace of the disappeared Najeeb and even after seven years his whereabouts remain unknown.

This story was originally published in maktoobmedia.com. Read the full story here .

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