Najeeb Ahmed case to be closed: Missing JNU student's mother vows to fight till her 'last breath'; slams CBI for negligence

Time of India

01-07-2025

Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed (File photo)
Fatima Nafis, the mother of missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student
Najeeb Ahmed
, on Tuesday accused the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and
Delhi Police
of "negligence" after a Delhi court
allowed
the CBI to close the case of her son, who has been missing since October 2016.
In a Facebook post, his mother said she would "fight till my last breath."
"It's been (almost) nine years since my Najeeb went missing. But the negligence shown by Delhi Police and the CBI from the very first day has led to this moment," Nafis wrote in her post.
Asserting that her fight is for every woman who is seeking justice for their children, the woman added that she would approach higher courts too, if needed.
"Many times I ask myself — how can I give up hope? How can I let my courage break? He is my son after all.
I want my son back. If I have to go to every court in this country for that, I will. I will fight till my last breath," she said.
Nafis further alleged that no action was taken against the "goons" of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The RSS is the ideological parent of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which leads the government at the Centre.
"Neither Delhi Police nor CBI arrested or took any action against the ABVP-linked students, the goons who assaulted my son and then made him disappear," she charged.
Ahmed, a first-year student, went missing from JNU's Mahi-Mandvi hostel on October 15, 2016, after a scuffle with some students allegedly affiliated with the ABVP the previous night.
The case was initially probed by Delhi Police and later transferred to the CBI.
Nafis, who was at the forefront of protests along with JNU students to demand a fair probe in her son's case, praised those who stood with her.
"Their solidarity and this shared struggle give me strength.
Throughout this time, when the system tried to silence us, it was students from JNU and from across the country — from colleges and universities like Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia — who stood with me. These very children faced police batons on roads and raised their voices for us," she stated.
The CBI filed its closure report on Monday, after permission from the Delhi high court. However, it had closed its investigation back in October 2018 as its efforts to trace Ahmed did not yield any result.
Also, though she accepted the closure report, additional chief judicial magistrate Jyoti Maheshwari granted liberty to the agency to reopen the investigation on the receipt of any credible information on Ahmed's whereabouts, and intimate her accordingly.