Security has been beefed up in New Delhi district in anticipation of a protest by JNU students in front of the Home Ministry at Raisina Hill today over alleged inaction of the university administration and police in tracing missing student Najeeb Ahmed.
Vehicular movement has been blocked on Raisina Road and police, and paramilitary forces have been deployed at and around the area after police received information that the university students would arrive here to stage a protest, a police official said.
Ahmed has been missing from the JNU campus since Saturday.
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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had yesterday ordered the Delhi Police to set up a special team to trace Ahmed, even as the agitating students decided to change their mode of protest after keeping the Vice Chancellor and some other top officials under siege for over 20 hours.
The agitating students had said they decided to change their mode of protest and will no longer confine VC M Jagadesh Kumar and other officials of the university.
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