New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- Providing fresh impetus to the investigation into missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmed, a Delhi court on Tuesday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to retrieve the original forensic report in the case to facilitate re-examination of additional evidence, including mobile phone data of three witnesses.

The order was passed by additional chief judicial magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari of the Rouse Avenue courts after an application was moved by the CBI's investigating officer seeking access to the original forensic report from court records.

Najeeb, a first-year MSc student at JNU, disappeared on October 15, 2016, a day after an altercation at the Mahi-Mandavi hostel involving stude...