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The Enforcement Directorate is presently investigating alleged scams of astir ₹4,000 crore successful the acquisition sector. The cases impact insubstantial leaks, alleged fake admissions, assistance frauds, fake grade rackets and recruitment scams. The bureau has attached assets presently worthy ₹1,500 crore and arrested respective high-profile accused crossed States
The latest lawsuit involves entities linked to Al-Falah Group, successful which the bureau precocious re-arrested Group main Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui for his alleged relation successful the usage of forged papers to get onshore successful Delhi.
He was earlier booked for alleged procreation and laundering of funds related to the Al-Falah Charitable Trust, Al-Falah University and associated institutions and entities. The ED filed a prosecution ailment aft provisionally attaching 54-acres of onshore on with buildings, worthy astir ₹139.97 crore. It quantified the full proceeds of alleged transgression successful the lawsuit astatine ₹493.24 crore.
The bureau has alleged that the institutions successful question projected expired NAAC accreditations arsenic valid to induce admissions. The assemblage was besides shown arsenic recognised nether Section 12(B) of the University Grants Commission Act. Besides, determination were alleged irregularities successful obtaining approvals and certifications.
Al-Falah University had besides come nether scrutiny aft 3 doctors associated with the institution were arrested successful transportation with the alleged module linked to the explosion adjacent the Red Fort successful November 2025.
Teachers’ scam
In the alleged Primary Teachers’ scam successful West Bengal, the bureau has attached properties worthy ₹151.26 crore. Seven people, including former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee and his adjutant Arpita Mukherjee, were arrested. It besides attached assets worthy ₹3.65 crore linked to MLA Chandranath Sinha.
The 2nd lawsuit from the aforesaid State pertains to the hiring of adjunct teachers (Classes IX-XII). The ED froze assets worthy ₹238.8 crore. Among those arrested were Santi Prasad Sinha, Prasanna Kumar Roy, and MLA Jiban Krishna Saha. On April 3, 2025, the Supreme Court upheld the Calcutta High Court’s cancellation of 25,000 appointments. In the “Group C and D Staff” recruitment scam successful West Bengal, attachments roseate to ₹247 crore.
Delhi schools scam
Last year, the ED started investigating alleged fiscal irregularities worthy ₹2,000 crore successful the operation of implicit 12,000 classrooms and semi-permanent structures for Delhi authorities schools during the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) tenure from 2015 to 2023. Former Ministers Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain are nether the scanner.
The bureau is probing the alleged fraudulent blocking of seats successful backstage engineering colleges successful Karnataka. In the NEET-UG 2024 leak case, it carried retired searches successful Ranchi, Patna, and Nalanda. Investigations revealed that the main accused, Sanjeev Mukhiya, and his associates gathered quality connected printing presses, warehouses, and transport vehicles utilized for confidential exam material. They allegedly tampered with sealed boxes en way to exam centres and stole question papers earlier they reached students. The papers were aboriginal allegedly sold done encrypted societal media channels.
The ED has besides investigated the 2022 Senior Teacher 2nd Grade Competitive Examination insubstantial leak successful Rajasthan and made respective arrests.
Scholarship fraud
Multiple cases of alleged assistance fraud person besides been pursued by the agency. In Himachal Pradesh, backstage institutions allegedly siphoned authorities scholarships intended for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class, and number students. The accused allegedly created shade students and fabricated records to assertion funds nether post-matric assistance schemes. Six persons were arrested and properties attached.
A akin scam was unearthed successful Uttar Pradesh, wherever the Hygia Group allegedly claimed Central and State scholarships by forging pupil data. In Karnataka’s Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College, ₹33.34 crore successful stipend funds meant for postgraduate aesculapian students were allegedly misappropriated betwixt 2018 and 2024. The ED attached ₹5.87 crore successful immovable assets and seized properties worthy ₹85 lakh.
In August 2025, a fake NRI quota racket linked to aesculapian admissions crossed aggregate backstage colleges came nether the scanner. Investigators alleged that backstage colleges conspired with agents to fabricate embassy-issued NRI certificates and household trees to admit ineligible candidates. Such instances involving implicit ₹23 crore were besides identified successful West Bengal and Odisha. The ED provisionally attached adjacent to ₹19 crore.
The different cases see the alleged fake grade racket involving Manav Bharti University successful Himachal Pradesh. The bureau has estimated the proceeds of transgression successful the lawsuit astatine astir ₹387 crore.
In April past year, the ED carried retired searches successful Delhi, Noida, and Gurugram successful a lawsuit related to promoters and owners of Forum for Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (FIITJEE) coaching centres, months aft respective of its centres abruptly closed down allegedly without immoderate notice.
