9 years after JNU student vanished, court lets CBI end search for Najeeb
New Delhi, July 1 -- Nearly nine years after Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed vanished from his hostel under mysterious circumstances, a Delhi court on Monday brought the official investigation to a close. The court accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) 2018 closure report, observing that the agency had pursued "all plausible leads" and noting the possibility that Najeeb may have voluntarily left the campus.
Additional chief judicial magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari noted: "CBI has undertaken a holistic investigation and exhausted all options. Further, the grounds raised by the protest petitioner, in alleging lapses in the investigation by CBI, have been examined at length and stand rejected."
The decision co...
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