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A Delhi tribunal connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) rejected the interim bail plea of Al-Falah University president Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui, accused successful a ₹493-crore wealth laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), saying that helium failed to amusement that his woman required his exclusive attraction during crab treatment.
Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan was proceeding the plea filed by Mr. Siddiqui seeking six weeks' interim bail to look aft his wife, who is suffering from stage-4 metastatic ovarian cancer.
In an order, the tribunal said, “Applicant has failed to amusement that the woman is terminally sick oregon is incapable to instrumentality attraction of her regular daily and requires changeless enactment of the accused/applicant and further, that determination is nary different big subordinate oregon caregiver, who cannot beryllium made disposable for the wife”.
The tribunal said that portion Mr. Siddiqui's woman was undergoing attraction for a superior ailment, aesculapian records described her information arsenic unchangeable and did not bespeak that she was terminally ill, bedridden oregon incapable of managing her regular routine.
"It is expected from big children to instrumentality attraction of their parents successful specified emergent concern and it cannot beryllium said that the children cannot beryllium a caregiver to their mother," the tribunal said.
Mr. Siddiqui was arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch successful February successful transportation with alleged fiscal and administrative irregularities astatine Al-Falah University and was subsequently taken into custody by the ED successful March.
According to the ED, the assemblage allegedly deceived students and parents done mendacious claims of NAAC accreditation and UGC recognition, generating proceeds of transgression of astir ₹493.24 crore done interest collections.
The bureau alleged Mr. Siddiqui siphoned disconnected funds from the Al-Falah Charitable Trust into idiosyncratic accounts and concern channels and utilized aggregate entities arsenic conduits for laundering the money.
The assemblage had besides travel nether scrutiny aft it emerged that Dr. Umar Nabi, accused of carrying retired the November 2025 Red Fort blast that killed 12 people, had been employed by the institution.
Holding that alternate caregivers were disposable and that the accused had failed to marque retired a lawsuit for interim bail, the tribunal dismissed the application.
