NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday announced a reward of `10 lakh to anyone providing information on the whereabouts of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed, who is missing since October 15 last year.
The information regarding the missing student can be given to the CBI by calling telephone/mobile numbers, including 011-24368641, 011-24368638, 011- 24368634, 9650394796 and 9650394791, the probe agency said in a statement.
Najeeb Ahmed, aged 27, is a resident of Vedontola, Badaun (Uttar Pradesh).
The CBI had registered a case under Section 365 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on June 2, 2017, following an order from the Delhi High Court dated May 16, 2017. The CBI had re-registered the case originally registered at Police Station Vasant Kunj (North), Delhi, under the Delhi Police.
A CBI team had recently visited the Mahi-Mandvi hostel in JNU from where Najeeb Ahmed had gone missing.
Earlier, Najeeb Ahmed’s mother Fatima Nafees had met CBI investigators and provided them information regarding the events before her son went missing from the JNU hostel.
Fatima Nafees told the CBI that Najeeb Ahmed had returned from Badaun to the university on October 13, 2016, after a holiday. On the intervening night of October 15-16, Najeeb had called her up to tell her and told her that “something was wrong”.
His roommate later told her that he had been injured in a fight, she told the CBI sleuths.
Following the conversation, Fatima Nafees said she took a bus from Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh to the national capital. But later she failed to find him at his hostel room.