Delhi court accepts CBI closure report in case of missing student Najeeb Ahmed

A Delhi court docket on Monday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to shut the case of former JNU pupil Najeeb Ahmed, who went lacking on October 15, 2016.

Whereas accepting the CBI’s closure report, Extra Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Jyoti Maheshwari of Rouse Avenue Court docket granted liberty to reopen the case if any proof was discovered within the matter.

CBI had closed its probe within the case in 2018, after making a number of failed makes an attempt to hint Ahmed. The nationwide company then filed a closure report earlier than the court docket after getting permission to do the identical from the Delhi Excessive Court docket.

Fatima Nafees, mom of Najeeb Ahmed, had challenged the CBI’s closure report earlier than the Rouse Avenue Court docket. Terming it a ‘political’ case, the Counsel showing for Nafees argued that CBI had succumbed to the ‘stress’ of its ‘masters’.

Ahmed was a pupil of M.Sc Biotechnology at JNU, who had gone lacking from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the college on October 15, 2016, following a scuffle with some college students allegedly related to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on October 14, 2016.

Nevertheless, the hostel warden confirmed seeing Najeeb depart the college premises by auto.

The case was initially investigated by the Delhi Police and was later transferred to CBI.

The nationwide company had apprised the court docket in April that Najeeb had refused therapy at Safdarjung Hospital after allegedly being assaulted by ABVP-affiliated college students.

It additionally stated that the statements of the hospital’s physician and medical attendant couldn’t be taken because of the absence of paperwork corroborating Ahmed’s go to.

As per the invstigating officer, when Ahmed visted the hospital, accompanied by his good friend Md Quasim, he was suggested to get an MLC ready. Nevertheless, he went again to the hostel and didn’t get any MLC ready.

ACJM Maheshwari had stated earlier this month that she would resolve on whether or not or to not settle for the police report recommending the closure of a case on the disappearance of Ahmed.

Najeeb’s mom submitted that he had returned to JNU after the vacations on October 13, 2016. On the intervening evening of October 15-16, he known as his mom to inform her that one thing improper had occurred to him.

Fatima Nafees additional stated in her FIR that Ahmed’s roommate, Kasim, advised her that there was a struggle and he was injured.

The subsequent day, she determined to take a bus from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr to fulfill her son. When she reached Delhi, she spoke to Najeeb and requested him to fulfill at his hostel.

However when she reached his room within the Mahi-Mandvi hostel (Room no 106), there was no hint of Najeeb Ahmed. He has been lacking since.