Najeeb Ahmed Case: CBI fails to trace missing JNU student; Delhi HC allows to file closure

Najeeb Ahmed's mother said: "We'll go to the Supreme Court. Whatever is happening since last two years is being done under the pressure by those sitting in power."

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New Delhi: CBI today filed a closure report in the Delhi High Court after it failed to trace the missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed. Allowing CBI to file the closure report in the case, the Delhi High Court disposed off the petition filed by Najeeb’s mother and said that she can put forward her grievances before the trial court where the report is filed. Najeeb Ahmed, an MSc first year student went missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of Jawaharlal Nehru University nearly two years ago on October 15, 2016, following a scuffle with some other students, allegedly affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the previous night. In the month of September, a bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel had reserved its decision on the petition filed by the student’s mother after concluding hearing of arguments of her lawyer and of CBI. The CBI had taken over the investigation on May 16 last year. In its last hearing, the CBI counsel told the bench that the agency has analysed "everything" related to the matter, and wanted to file a final report seeking to close the case as it did not think that any offence was committed against the missing person. However, the lawyer for the student's mother Fatima Nafees, contended in court that it was a "political case" and that the "CBI has succumbed to the pressure of its masters". Ahmad’s mother  had sought a Special Investigation Team - comprising of non CBI official - to further probe her son's disappearance from a JNU hostel in the intervening night of October 14 and 15.

JNU student Najeeb Ahmad missing case: Delhi High Court court disposes off the petition filed by Fatima Nafis (mother of Najeeb Ahmad), court also allows CBI to file closure report in the case. Court says his mother can raise grievances before trial court where report is filed.

— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2018

News agency ANI quoted Najeeb's mother Fatima Nafees as saying:  " We'll go to the Supreme Court. Whatever is happening since last 2 yrs is being done under the pressure by those sitting in power."

It's been 2 yrs. I had high hopes from Court but we didn't move even an inch. Security agencies misguided Court. We'll go to the Supreme Court. All that is happening since last two years is being done under the pressure by those sitting in power: Fatima Nafees, mother of Najeeb Ahmad pic.twitter.com/FYRorvRCDF

— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2018