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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected Friday (January 16, 2026) attached assets worthy astir ₹140 crore of Haryana-based Al-Falah University that came nether the radar of the information agencies pursuing the November 10 Red Fort country blast, and filed a complaint expanse against Al-Falah Group chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui and his trust, officials said.
The 54-acres onshore of the assemblage based successful Dhauj country of Faridabad, the buildings of the university, those belonging to assorted schools and departments and hostels has been attached arsenic portion of a provisional bid issued nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.
PTI had archetypal reported aboriginal this week that the ED is going to connect these properties, owned by the Al-Falah Trust, categorising them "proceeds of crime".
Siddiqui was arrested by the ED successful November 2025 connected wealth laundering charges linked to cheating with students of the acquisition institutions tally by his trust. It was claimed by the bureau that the acquisition institutes did not person the required valid accreditation for teaching.
A complaint expanse has besides been filed against Siddiqui and the Al-Falah Trust earlier a peculiar PMLA court. The 2 person been arraigned arsenic accused and the ED has sought their prosecution nether the anti-money laundering law, the officials said.
An attachment is done to nether the PMLA to guarantee that the proceeds of transgression are not dissipated, sold disconnected oregon transacted.
Officials had said that a authorities appointed receiver tin beryllium restituted oregon vested with the medication of the assemblage field aft the provisional attachment attains finality. This mode the acquisition of the students volition not endure adjacent arsenic the transgression enactment and prosecution whitethorn continue, the officials had said.
The agency, portion seeking the remand of Siddiqui successful November from a court, had informed that the assemblage and its controlling trust, nether the absorption of Siddiqui, generated "proceeds of crime" of astatine slightest ₹415.10 crore by "dishonestly" inducing students and parents to portion with wealth connected the ground of mendacious accreditation and designation claims.
The university's relation emerged during probe into a 'white-collar' panic module successful which much than 10 radical including 3 doctors, person been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Jammu and Kashmir Police.
One of the doctors astatine the varsity-cum-hospital, Dr. Umar-un-Nabi, is alleged to person go a termination bomber portion helium was driving an explosive-laden car connected November 10, 2025 that blasted extracurricular Red Fort sidesplitting 15 people.
