India, June 30 -- "I still believe he is alive and I'll believe so till I am alive," said Fatima Nafees, after a Delhi court accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI's) closure report over his disappearance on Monday.

Nafees has been at the forefront of the fight to find her son, who went missing from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus in 2016. Ahmed, a student of M.Sc Biotechnology, went missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the university on October 15, 2016, after a scuffle with a student group the previous night.

"I will speak to the lawyers and take the next legal course possible. I will continue to fight for my son. I know he is alive. He may have been kept hidden somewhere. His appearance may have changed no...