A Delhi court on Friday reserved order on a plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking early hearing of its pending application over conducting polygraph test on certain Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students in connection with the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed.
Najeeb, a student of the university, has been missing since October 15, 2016.
Early hearing
Reserving the order, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal said he will deliver the order on October 30.
The probe agency had on October 17 filed an application for conducting the test after the Delhi High Court directed it to move the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court in the Patiala House courts for early hearing of the pending plea.
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate had earlier scheduled the plea for hearing on January 24.
The High court had said even family members of the missing student could undergo the polygraph test not just the suspects.
The court had on May 16 transferred investigation in the case from the Delhi Police to the CBI.
Earlier, the students had opposed a Delhi Police application seeking the court’s permission to conduct a lie detection test on them.
They had argued that there was no provision under the Code of Criminal Procedure, whereby the court of a magistrate could direct any person to undergo a lie detector test or direct him or her to record consent or refusal for the same.
