Delhi Court Accepts CBI Closure Report In Disappearance Of JNU Student Najeeb Ahmed Missing Since 2016
A Delhi Courtroom immediately accepted the closure report filed by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the disappearance of JNU scholar Najeeb Ahmed, lacking since 2016.
Further Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace Jyoti Maheshwari of Rouse Avenue Courts handed the order.
The Courtroom nevertheless granted liberty to the CBI to re-open the investigation on receipt of any credible data concerning his whereabouts and directed the company to intimate the Courtroom accordingly.
27-year-old Ahmed was a scholar of MSc. Biotechnology (1st Yr) Jawaharlal Nehru College.
In its order handed immediately, the Courtroom noticed that no credible data might be obtained by the CBI concerning the whereabouts of Najeeb Ahmed. It famous that CBI had undertaken a holistic investigation and exhausted all choices. It noticed that the grounds raised by his mom alleging lapses within the investigation had been examined at size and stood rejected.
“This Courtroom is cognizant of the plight of an anxious mom (the protest petitioner), who has been on a quest to seek out out about her lacking son since 2016, however the investigating company within the current case i.e. CBI can’t be faulted for the investigation carried out. The hunt for reality is the muse of each legal investigation, but there are circumstances the place the investigation performed can’t obtain its logical conclusion, regardless of the most effective efforts of the investigating equipment,” the Courtroom stated.
“This Courtroom expresses its remorse that whereas the proceedings within the current case finish with this closure report, a closure for Najeeb’s mom and different family members, nonetheless eludes us,” the choose stated.
Moreover, the Courtroom noticed that whereas it’s true {that a} perturbing incident had taken place on the earlier evening earlier than Najeeb Ahmed had gone lacking, however the identical ipso facto isn’t adequate to reach on the conclusion that the suspects had any position to play in inflicting his disappearance.
“In a unstable ambiance just like the hostel elections and extra so in a campus like JNU, such scuffles and exchanges should not unparalleled, however the identical isn’t a adequate foundation to conclude that these younger college students would go to an extent to trigger disappearance of one other scholar, particularly when there is no such thing as a proof on document to counsel the identical,” the Courtroom stated.
It added that CBI had, by the proof collected, satisfactorily defined the whereabouts of the suspects and dominated out their involvement and that mere existence of a motive or hostility, sans any corroborative materials, can’t be an alternative choice to proof.
“Thus, the competition of protest petitioner {that a} critical lapse is dedicated by CBI, by not probing into the accidents sustained by Najeeb Ahmed, additionally stands negated in entirety,” it concluded.
The mom claimed that Ahmed known as her at round 2:30 am within the morning of October 15, 2016, and knowledgeable her that one thing had occurred to him.
Apprehensive, Fatima left for Delhi together with her second son Mujeeb. Upon reaching Delhi, she known as her son once more and informed him she might be coming to his hostel room. Najeeb confirmed that he was nonetheless at his hostel. Nevertheless, after reaching her hostel room, Fatima found that her son had gone lacking.
Fatima then discovered from college students that Najeeb was overwhelmed up by members of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on October 14, 2016. After Najeeb’s disappearance, an FIR was registered on October 16, 2016 however there was no point out of the assault on Najeeb.
In October 2018, the Delhi Excessive Courtroom permitted CBI to file closure report within the case after the probe company stated that it had not discovered any proof of Ahmed being assaulted a day earlier than he went lacking.
Accepting the competition, the Excessive Courtroom had dominated that Fatima can elevate her grievances earlier than the trial courtroom, the place the closure report was filed.
CBI had taken over the probe from the Delhi Police in Might 16, 2017. It informed the Excessive Courtroom that it had determined to file a closure report within the case as its investigation didn’t reveal any offence having been dedicated towards Ahmed.
