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The Madhya Pradesh Police person arrested Hamood Ahmad Siddiqui successful transportation with 3 fraud cases registered successful Indore district’s Mhow, Indore (Rural) Superintendent of Police Yangchen Dolkar Bhutia said connected Monday (November 17, 2025). Mr. Hamood is the younger member of Javed Ahmad Siddiqui, chancellor of the Faridabad-based Al Falah University, which has been nether the scanner successful the caller lawsuit of the detonation adjacent the Red Fort successful Delhi.
A four-member squad of the Indore constabulary apprehended Mr. Hamood, 50, from the Gachibowli country of Hyderabad successful Telangana successful 3 cases of fraud worthy ₹40 lakh, registered astatine Mhow constabulary presumption successful 2000. Originally from Mhow, Mr. Hamood had been surviving successful Hyderabad for much than 20 years.
Speaking to reporters, Indore (Rural) Superintendent of Police (SP) Yangchen Dolkar Bhutia said that, isolated from the 3 fraud cases, Mr. Hamood had besides been booked connected charges of rioting and effort to execution successful 1988.
“We person a thrust going connected present to nab the absconding accused successful aged cases, particularly those with a reward connected them. Mr. Hamood has been held from Hyderabad arsenic portion of the campaign,” Ms. Dolkar Bhutia said, adding that a reward of ₹10,000 connected accusation for his apprehension was announced successful 2019.
The SP said that Mr. Hamood utilized to tally Al Fahad Fin Com Limited, a fiscal company, successful Mhow successful the mid-1990s.
“He was the managing manager of the institution portion his wife, he, and different idiosyncratic were the committee members of the company. They utilized to instrumentality wealth from people, promising a instrumentality of 20%. They ran the institution for 2 years. After that, helium near from Mhow with his family. They are accused of scamming people, and arsenic per the complaints, the magnitude goes upto ₹40 lakh. It could beryllium more,” Ms. Dolkar Bhutia said.
“Javed Siddiqui is his elder brother. He is not an accused successful these fraud cases,” she said.
Mr. Hamood presently runs a backstage concern steadfast named Richwell Fin Corp successful Hyderabad, and has not been successful interaction with his household oregon relatives successful Mhow, the serviceman said.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police person registered 2 cases against the Al Falah University for cheating and forgery implicit alleged mendacious accreditation claims made by the instauration aft the University Grants Commission, and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council flagged “major irregularities” during their reappraisal of its functioning. The Delhi Police person besides issued 2 summons to Mr. Javed.
The assemblage has been nether probe since respective doctors who worked oregon studied determination were arrested successful transportation with the detonation astatine the nationalist Capital.
The Association of Indian Universities has besides suspended Al-Falah University’s membership, saying it “does not look to beryllium successful bully standing”, portion the Union authorities has ordered a forensic audit of each the records of the university.
