The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has declared on Monday that they have failed to trace the missing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Najeeb Ahmad and they do not want to pursue the case any further. The agency submitted closure report in Patiala House after getting permission of the Delhi High Court, they said. The High Court is likely to hear the matter on November 29 into the matter. The High Court had, however, said that Najeeb's mother Fatima Nafees could move the trial court a status report in the case.

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While taking permission of the Delhi High Court to close the case, the agency said all aspects were looked into but it could not find any trace of an offence.

Najeeb Ahmad had gone missing from the Mahi-Mandvi hostel of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here on October 15, 2016, following a scuffle the previous night with some students allegedly affiliated to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

The agency had announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh for anyone giving information about Najeeb and informed police chiefs of all state police in the country, they said. It also received some inputs from Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi where teams were immediately dispatched but to no avail, the officials said.

The agency had carried out a thorough check on unidentified bodies and pasted Najeeb's photograph on toll stations seeking information about him but these efforts did not result in any positive results, they said. After exhaustive search, the agency has decided to close the case..

CBI in it's closure report has said that despite it's best effort, Ahmad could not be traced. The agency says it wrote letters to DGP and chief secretaries of all the states but couldn't get any information about his whereabouts.