Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmad case: Status report filed, Delhi HC directs CBI to take necessary steps

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to take all necessary steps to trace missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmad.

Najeeb Ahmad is missing since October 15, 2016.

The court order came after CBI filed the status report in HC detailing steps taken to trace the missing JNU student.

The central probe agency sought more time from the court to reach conclusion in the case.

Najeeb, 27, a first year M Sc student, has not been traced since he went missing from his JNU hostel on the night of October 14-15, allegedly after a row with members of the RSS' students wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

The high court had transferred the case to the CBI after the Delhi Police said it has carried out the investigation in a fair manner searching for Ahmad across India, but came up with zero success.

The court's direction came while hearing a habeas corpus plea filed by Fatima Nafees, Ahmad's mother, that her son be produced by the police and the Delhi government before the court.