Police on Wednesday clarified that missing research scholar Mukul Jain was a former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University and was no more enrolled with the varsity. Earlier, it was reported that he was a student of JNU.
Mukul Jain had reportedly gone missing from Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Tuesday.
Mukul was last seen leaving the campus at around 12.30 pm from the East Gate of JNU, police said. According to the Police, no violence or academic pressure surfaced in the initial Investigation.
Police said: “As per the leads, we have received from JNU administration, he is no more enrolled there and has completed his PhD from their department of Life Sciences.”
“Mukul Jain had vacated his hostel room after completing his research and presently staying in Ghaziabad.”
He was dealing with some ‘personal issues’ and there was no certainty about what could have gone wrong. “There is no suspect in this case,” a police officer said.
Jain, pursuing PhD from the IGNOU under the supervision of a JNU professor, used to attend lab number 408 at the JNU’s School of Life Sciences.
In a Tweet on Wednesday, Student Leader Shehla Rashid Posted, a ‘missing poster’ of research scholar Mukul Jain.
Delhi police have started investigating the case.
In 2016, a first-year MSc student at JNU, Najeeb Ahmed, went missing under mysterious circumstances after he allegedly got into a fight with members of the RSS-backed Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP). After the Delhi police failed to make any breakthrough, the case was transferred to the CBI.