CBI fails to find Najeeb Ahmed, closes case

NEW DELHI: After recently getting a go-ahead from Delhi high court, the Central Bureau of Investigation has finally closed the case of missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed after failing to find any clue about his whereabouts.
The agency has submitted his report in Patiala house court recently, sources said. The court is likely to hear the matter on November 29.

While taking permission of the HC to close the case, the agency which had probed the matter since May 16 last year had said all aspects were looked into but no trace of any offence could be found.

Ahmed had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on October 15, 2016, following a scuffle with some students allegedly affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) the previous night.

The agency had announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for anyone giving information about Najeeb and informed police chiefs of all state police in the country, they said.

It also received some inputs from Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi where teams were immediately dispatched but to no avail, sources added.

The agency had carried out a thorough check on unidentified bodies and pasted Najeeb's photograph on toll stations seeking information about him but these efforts did not result in any positive results, they said.

After exhaustive search, the central probe agency has decided to close the case.

Prior to CBI, Delhi Police too had conducted a thorough probe in the case but it didn’t find any foul play in his disappearance.