Fatima Nafees, mother of Jawaharlal Nehru University student Najeeb Ahmed who has been missing for over 100 days, has written to the Delhi Police complaining against the “inhuman raids” at the houses of Najeeb’s relatives in Badaun, UP.
In a letter addressed to S.K. Gulia, Investigation Officer, Delhi Police, Ms. Nafees wrote that at 4 a.m. on January 28, over 50 Delhi Police personnel and Badaun policemen barged inside the house of Ashraf Qadri, Najeeb’s maternal uncle.
“They clicked photographs and shot videos both inside and outside the house. They searched every nook and cranny and accused them of hiding Najeeb,” she said.
‘Cops pressurising us’
She wrote that her relatives were intimated although they had been ready to co-operate with the investigation. She also questioned as to what the intention of the police was.
“Are they trying to pressurise me and my family to stop pursuing the case in the High Court?” she asked.
Ms. Nafees said that while her family members were roughed up and threatened, she did not see the police making similar efforts to search homes of ex-JNU students who were illegally residing in Najeeb’s hostel at the time of his disappearance.
‘Belongings confiscated’
She further said that the mobile phones and laptops of her family members were confiscated. However, the laptops and and phones of the accused students had not been taken away, she said.
Meanwhile, the JNUSU has called for a protest outside the Delhi Police Headquarters on Monday against “procedural lapses” and the alleged VIP treatment meted out to the accused students. The protest will begin at 2 p.m.
