New Delhi: Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) formed a human chain extending from the varsity's administration block to the residence of Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar, as the missing student's case of Najeed Ahmed entered the ninth day on Sunday.
The wave of students outside his home prompted Kumar to take to Twitter and appeal to the agitating students. “You can see the blockade at my JNU residence by agitating students. This will take us nowhere,” he said, posting a picture of the human chain.
“Agitating students, please understand by shouting slogans and blocking entrance to my residence we cannot trace Najeeb (sic),” he said.
In subequent tweets, he said he will be meeting Delhi Police Commissioner Alok Verma to discuss the case on October 24. His meeting with the city's top cop will coincide with a march the agitating students are planning to hold against the alleged inaction on the part of the JNU administration in tracing Ahmed.
The march will begin from Mandi House and culminate at Jantar Mantar where the students will observe the 'National Protest Day'. Different delegations from among the students will meet Delhi Lieutenant Governor, the National Human Rights Commission and the National Minority Commission.
Replying to Kumar, the student community posted a question on the micro-blogging site: "Why did the JNU VC, who is otherwise quick to take to twitter against JNU students, fail to issue even a single sensitive appeal to Najeeb in public domain till date? (sic)”.
“Our Vice Chancellor has become paranoid. Wherever he sees students, he gets nightmares of gherao. We only formed a human chain to seek justice for Najeeb. The VC should stop seeking undue sympathy,” said JNUSU President Mohit K Pandey on Kumar's tweets.
The university, which was just returning to normalcy after heated protests over the sedition case against some of its students early this year, is on the boil again after Najeeb Ahmed went missing on October 15.
Ahmed, a first-year MSc student, went missing from the Mahi Mandavi hostel on campus after allegedly being attacked by ABVP activists.
The students' union had a few days ago confined the VC at the block and later held a demonstration outside the Ministry of Home Affairs, demanding a speedy investigation into the case.
The student body has been in touch with the ACP (South) to press for action against Ahmed's alleged attackers and has communicated its dissapointment at the failure of authorities to put up missing posters across the city.
The JNUSU has urged all organizations, students and teachers to extend their support in intensifying the search for Ahmed.
“There is an urgent need that we strategise and take the movement forward in a far-sighted manner,” a statement by the student body said.
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