NEW DELHI: Delhi Police and JNU authorities were rapped by Delhi high court on Monday. It punched holes in the probe conducted to trace missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Vinod Goel questioned why the police failed to mention in its report the allegation that Ahmed went missing soon after a scuffle with members of ABVP. His mother and petitioner in the case, Fatima Nafees, was also present in court. HC wondered as to how a student could “just vanish” from the city, and suspected that there was “something more” to Ahmed’s disappearance. The court made it clear to the police that it should “cut across all political barriers” to find the truth.“This is the heart of India. No one can just disappear from here. It creates a sense of insecurity among people. If he disappeared, then there is something more to that. All angles should be explored. 45 days is a long period for someone to be underground,” observed the bench after the police, in their report, maintained that the missing student was “not forcefully abducted”. The court said brawls and fights in a college hostel is “not unusual”, but no one disappears over it.During the hearing, HC enquired why the police waited till November 11 to interrogate the suspects with whom Ahmed had an altercation the night before he disappeared.HC also expressed its disapproval with the “attitude” of the JNU vice-chancellor for not assigning anyone to appear in the case despite being served a copy of the petition. “He does not think it is an important matter?” the bench observed. It asked the university to file a response to the petitioners’ plea by the next date of hearing.The court also said that JNU should reconsider Ahmed’s expulsion from the hostel and make a public appeal that they would reconsider his punishment on return.On its part, Delhi Police assured HC that it is exploring all angles, including the fact that Ahmed was suffering from “mental illness or depression” for which he was under medication since 2012. The police opined that Ahmed may have gone into hiding feeling ashamed at his expulsion from the JNU hostel.But the stand was slammed by senior advocate Colin Gonzalves, representing Nafees. “The family is disappointed at the manner of probe, since the police are not even agreeing to the possibility of him being abducted.”