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The Al Falah University field successful Haryana's Faridabad, which came nether the scanner of investigating agencies aft the Red Fort country blast, could beryllium attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) nether the anti-money laundering law, authoritative sources said connected Sunday (January 11, 2026).
The ED is investigating if funds for the operation of the varsity were sourced from alleged proceeds of crime, the sources told PTI.
Al Falah Group president Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui was arrested by the ED successful November connected wealth laundering charges linked to cheating with students of the acquisition institutions tally by his Al Falah Trust. The national probe bureau claimed that the acquisition institutes did not person the required valid accreditation for teaching.
According to the sources, a portion of the "proceeds of crime" (illicit funds nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act [PMLA]) identified successful this lawsuit are suspected to person been pumped into the operation of assorted buildings of the assemblage located successful the Dhauj country of Faridabad.
The bureau is undertaking a process to place and worth assorted movable and immovable assets of the Al Falah Trust which owns each its acquisition institutions and the university.
Once the probe ends, an bid volition beryllium issued nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to provisionally connect the assets recovered to beryllium derived oregon created from the proceeds of crime, the sources said.
It is understood that the students of the assemblage whitethorn beryllium allowed to survey uninterrupted, adjacent aft the attachment, successful the involvement of their academics.
An attachment is done to guarantee that the proceeds of transgression are not dissipated, sold disconnected oregon transacted.
A authorities appointed receiver tin beryllium restituted oregon vested with the medication of the Al Falah University 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 sources said.
The ED, portion seeking the remand of Mr. Siddiqui successful November from a court, had said that the assemblage and its controlling trust, nether the absorption of Mr. 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 agency, arsenic per the sources, is besides investigating astatine slightest 5 instances wherever documents related to the General Power of Attorney (GPA) for acquiring immoderate onshore parcels successful Delhi are alleged to person been forged astatine the behest of the spot linked to Mr. Siddiqui.
The university's relation emerged during the probe into a "white-collar" panic module successful which much than 10 people, including 3 doctors, person been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Umar-un-Nabi, a doc astatine the Al Falah aesculapian college, became the termination bomber erstwhile helium detonated an explosive-laden car connected November 10, 2025 extracurricular the Red Fort successful Delhi, sidesplitting 15 people.
The ED has taken cognisance of 2 Delhi Police FIRs to registry its lawsuit against Mr. Siddiqui and the Al Falah Group connected November 14 nether the PMLA.
The bureau informed the tribunal that the assemblage and its controlling trust, nether the absorption of Siddiqui, generated "proceeds of crime" of astatine slightest ₹415.1 crore by "dishonestly" inducing students and parents to portion with wealth connected the ground of mendacious accreditation and designation claims.
Mr. Siddiqui's lawyer told the tribunal that his lawsuit was falsely implicated successful the contiguous substance and the 2 Delhi Police FIRs were "false and fabricated".
The ED has alleged that the Al Falah University falsely claimed that it is simply a UGC recognised assemblage and misrepresented its NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) accreditation status.
NAAC is an autonomous assemblage funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) that assesses and accredits higher acquisition institutions successful the country.
The ED had said the full Al Falah Group has seen a "meteoric rise" since the 1990s, metamorphosing into a ample acquisition body.
