NEW DELHI: Weeks after taking over
missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed’s case, the
CBI on Thursday announced a
reward
of Rs 10 lakh for information about his whereabouts. Ahmed has been missing for over eight months now. CBI officials said people willing to share information on Ahmed’s whereabouts could contact CBI investigators on 011-24368641, 24368638, 24368634 and 9650394796.
The agency had recently visited the Mahi-Mandvi hostel in JNU from where Ahmed had gone missing mysteriously.
His mother Fatima Nafees recently met CBI officers investigating the case and gave them details of the events before her son disappeared from his hostel. She told officials that Ahmed had returned to the university on October 13, 2016 after a holiday.
On the night of October 15, Ahmed called her up to tell her that “something was wrong”. His roommate later told her that he had been injured in a fight, she had told the agency.
Following the conversation, Fatima said she took a bus from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh to reach Delhi. After reaching Anand Vihar, she spoke to Ahmed over the phone and asked him to meet her at a hotel where she was to stay.
In her complaint, she said Ahmed did not turn up and she reached his room (No.106) in Mahi-Mandvi hostel. With Delhi Police failing to find her son, Fatima approached Delhi high court and sought a CBI probe.
On May 16, the court handed over investigation to the CBI with the direction that it had to be monitored by an officer not below the rank of DIG.