A Delhi court on Monday accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closure report on the missing case of first year JNU student Najeeb Ahmed. While additional chief judicial magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari allowed the agency to close the case, it granted liberty to reopen the case if any evidence in the matter came about.

In October 2018, the federal investigating agency closed its probe into the case after their efforts to trace Ahmed, a first-year master's student at JNU, yielded no results.

After getting permission from the Delhi High Court, the CBI filed its closure report before the court. The CBI closure report was challenged by Najeeb Ahmad's mother, Fatima Nafees.

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Nafees' counsel had previously alleged that it was a "political case" in which the "CBI has succumbed to the pressure of its masters". Ahmad was a student of MSc Biotechnology at JNU, and he went missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of JNU on October 15, 2016. He went missing after a scuffle with some students allegedly affiliated with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) the previous night.

The hostel warned had confirmed seeing Najeeb leave the university premises by auto. Najeeb's missing case garnered significant attention, prompting an investigation by the Delhi Police. The probe was later transferred to the CBI.

Earlier in April, the CBI told the court that Najeeb had not received treatment at Safdarjung Hospital after allegedly being assaulted by the ABVP-affiliated students.

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The investigating officer claimed, "Upon visiting the hospital, Ahmed was advised to get an MLC prepared. However, he, accompanied by his friend Md Quasim, went back to the hostel and did not get any MLC prepared".

(With PTI Inputs)