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New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The father of 20-year-old engineering student Shobit Modi, stabbed to death May 5 near his house in south Delhi, informed the Delhi High Court Tuesday that police were not investigating the case properly.

Shobit’s father Suraj Modi, who claimed he was being threatened by politicians and others for trying to unravel the truth, told Justice Mukta Gupta that the investigators were biased and not probing into the angle suggested by him.

Police filed a status report before the court, claiming that they had examined 11,000 contacts of the victim.

Shobit’s father said: “What is the use of examining several people, when we are asking them to interrogate only a few whom we suspect?”

The victim’s sister said the family suspected the relatives of Shobit’s girlfriend as they had threatened him.

The court asked Shobit’s family members to file a rejoinder by Oct 3, the next date of hearing.

Issuing a notice to police and the home ministry July 20, the court asked police to explain why they failed to solve the murder.

The student’s family came in appeal before the court, seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the case.

Shobit, a second-year Information Technology student at Manav Rachna University in Faridabad and a former student of Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, was stabbed to death near his home in Vasant Kunj’s C-block around 10 p.m. May 5.

He had four stab wounds - one on the chest, one in the abdomen and two in the back. His father rushed him to hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

In his petition, Shobit’s father alleged that police were shielding those behind the murder.

In their report, police said Shobit used to smoke hookah, cigarettes and take drugs - a charge that his father refuted.

The report said: “The victim had a number of male friends. Some of them were present in the mall, and had then visited his house, on the day of the incident. Most of his male friends shared his habits, such as taking women out to markets, malls and parks.”

Police also said they questioned Shobit’s close friend as “he knew most of his secrets, and used to accompany him on visits to the houses of his female friends”.

Justice Gupta asked police to look into the clues given by the victim’s family.