Nine Years On, JNU Student Najeeb Still Missing
October 15 marks nine years since the JNU student Najeeb Ahmed was forciblly disappeared from the campus. Now after nine years the campus once again echoed with the demand for justice. Members of the Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), Fraternity Movement, and Muslim Students Federation (MSF) held a joint march “Justice for Najeeb” on Tuesday night.
The student bodies raised their collective voice against impunity and asking the haunting question that continues to reverberate across academic circles, “Where is Najeeb?”
Najeeb Ahmed, a first-year MSc Biotechnology student from Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, was allegedly abducted and disappeared from withing the campus outside his hostel at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the Hindutva organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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Top investigation agencies including Delhi Police, Special team, and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has investigated the matter. Yet, none of them could trace Najeeb, and even after nine years, his whereabouts remain unknown. In June 2025, a Delhi court accepted the closure report filed by the CBI in the unsolved case.
Najeeb’s mother, Fatima Nafees, still believes that her son is still alove but on other hand she states of losing faith in the idea of justice and aspirations of these agencies.
The march, started from Ganga Dhaba of JNU, crossed through other hostels including Mahi-Mandvi, hostel from where Najeeb Ahmed went missing, as students raised slogans demanding justice and accountability.
The students raised slogans demanding justice, asking “Where is Najeeb?”, “Down with Delhi Police, CBI, and the Vice-Chancellor,” “Down with RSS and ABVP,” and “Give justice to Najeeb.”
BAPSA JNU President Avichal Warke emphasized, “We have gathered here to demand a single, urgent answer: Where is Najeeb?” He alleged that members of the ABVP had first beaten Najeeb and then threatened that he would be made to disappear.
