Disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed

His family, as well as the JNU Students' Union, have consistently maintained that Ahmed's disappearance was linked to an assault which occurred the previous night.

Ahmed was attacked by nine members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) after they had allegedly knocked on his door seeking votes for an upcoming hostel election.

[7] The police filed a First Information Report (FIR) for kidnapping and wrongful confinement based on Fatima Nafees's complaint on 15 October 2016.

They blockaded the administration for 20 hours on 23 October 2016[21] because it had issued circulars calling Ahmed "an accused" which angered students on campus.

[27] Fatima Nafees joined Kavitha Lankesh, Professor Apoorva and Shaista Parveen, in a public meeting in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar for the third anniversary of Ahmed's disappearance, joining BSP minister Danish Ali, author Arundhati Roy, Supreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan, and St. Stephen’s College professor Nandita Narain in 2019.

[28] She also joined N Sai Balaji, the National President of All India Students' Association, at JNU on 23 November 2019,[29] then campaigned for Kanhaiya Kumar in Begusarai during the 2019 parliamentary elections.

[30] Fatima Nafees joined Nadeem Khan of "United Against Hate", who is also an Assistant Secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, at a press conference on 4 October 2019.