SC orders CBI probe into NLU Jodhpur student death in 2017

Supreme Court has ordered a re-investigation into the death of NLU Jodhpur student in 2017. The probe is entrusted upon CBI. The court observed that despite three years passed on, the police has not yet solved the mystery.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ordered a de nevo investigation into the mysterious death case of NLU Jodhpur student. The student died in 2017 and the court has observed that the police investigation was not fruitful.

The court ordered for reinvestigation of the case by the CBI. The bench of justices included R F Nariman, Navin Sinha and Indira Banerjee. Petitioner Neetu Kumar Nagaich, the mother of victim Vikrant Nagaich (21), raised concern over the mysterious unnatural death.

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The pleader argued that the investigation reached nowhere despite three years has passed on. He said that on August 13, 2017, the victim went to a restaurant, around 300 metres from the university campus, with his friends in the evening but he did not return, and his body was found the next morning near a railway track.

The plea has alleged that the police neither approached Google or Facebook nor retrieved the victim's mobile phone data which could have helped in tracing his movement to ascertain the events on the night of August 13, 2017. It has claimed that the police have also not retrieved the victim's chat conversations of the night of the incident from WhatsApp.