Overview

• On June 30, a Delhi court will decide whether to accept the CBI’s 2018 closure report or order a fresh probe into Najeeb Ahmed’s disappearance.
• The CBI concluded that Ahmed left the JNU campus voluntarily due to mental health issues after a scuffle but found no evidence of abduction.
• Fatima Nafees has contested the CBI’s findings since 2019, filing a protest petition that alleges lapses such as failure to interrogate nine ABVP-linked students.
• The probe by the CBI involved questioning 26 individuals, examining mortuaries in 12 cities and reviewing railway records for a year.
• The case stems from Ahmed’s disappearance following an October 2016 altercation at JNU that triggered widespread student protests and an initial Delhi Police kidnapping inquiry.