India, June 30 -- A Delhi court on Monday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to close the missing case of former JNU student Najeeb Ahmed. He had gone missing on October 15, 2016.

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari accepted the central probe agency's closure report, but also granted liberty to reopen the case if any evidence in the matter is found.

In 2018, the federal investigating agency had closed its investigation into the case as its efforts to trace Ahmed did not yield any results. Following this, the CBI filed its closure report before the court after getting permission to do so from the Delhi High Court.

Ahmed, a Master's student at JNU, had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the university ...