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A Delhi tribunal connected Monday (December 1, 2025) sent Al Falah University laminitis Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui to 14-day judicial custody successful a terror-linked wealth laundering case.
Siddiqui had been sent to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody for 13 days connected November 19.
On Monday, helium was produced earlier Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan, who sent him to judicial custody till December 15.
During the hearing, the ED counsel concisely argued that it was premature to nutrient him earlier the tribunal since the 13-day custody would extremity astatine 1 a.m. connected Tuesday, technically making Monday the 12th time of his custody.
Meanwhile, an exertion was moved by Siddiqui's counsel seeking entree to prescribed medicine and spectacles during the custody period. The justice allowed the request.
ED officials handed implicit Siddiqui's aesculapian medicine to the court, which directed jailhouse authorities to guarantee that helium continued to person the prescribed treatment.
The bureau had earlier alleged that Al Falah University falsely claimed UGC designation and misrepresented its NAAC accreditation presumption to students. It said the instauration generated ₹415.10 crore successful gross betwixt 2018 and 2025, witnessing a "meteoric rise" successful net contempt fiscal records not matching the assets accumulated by the group.
The ED told the tribunal that pupil fees and funds raised from the nationalist were being diverted for idiosyncratic and backstage use, and that Siddiqui exercised de facto power implicit the Al Falah Charitable Trust, the managing trustee, and related entities.
Searches astatine 19 locations successful Delhi-NCR connected the time of his apprehension yielded astir ₹48 lakh successful cash, officials had said.
The substance volition beryllium taken up adjacent connected December 15, pursuing the extremity of Siddiqui's judicial custody.
