A Delhi court on Monday allowed the CBI to close the case of first year JNU student Najeeb Ahmed, who went missing on October 15, 2016, saying the agency "exhausted all options". Additional chief judicial magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari also "earnestly hoped" Najeeb was traced soon. "This court expresses its regret that while the proceedings in the present case end with this closure report, a closure for Najeeb's mother and other loved ones, still eludes us," the order said. While it accepted the agency's closure report, the court granted liberty to the CBI to re-open the investigation on the receipt of any credible information on Ahmed's whereabouts and intimate the court accordingly. The judge said there was no evidence of any scuffle or exchange of Najeeb with any person on the day of his disappearance once he returned to the hostel to show his disappearance was caused by any suspect or any other person at JNU. "An analysis of the discussion shows that CBI has undertaken a holistic
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The high court did not agree with the allegation of Ahmed's mother, Fatima Nafees, that CBI wanted to file the closure report due to "political compulsions"
Ahmed had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on October 15, 2016
The court said if Najeeb's mother wanted the status report of the probe, she would have to move the trial court
CBI argued case has been under them for merely a month, asked for time to investigate
Najeeb Ahmed went missing from his JNU hostel, allegedly after a row with members of ABVP
JNU students have criticised the Delhi Police over the delay in tracing Najeeb
All India Students Association (AISA) which is running a campaign "Bring back Najeeb", staged a protest at Delhi University