Red Fort terror funding trail: ED arrests Al Falah Chief after raids on 25 locations
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday arrested Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, chairman of the Al Falah Group, after it conducted simultaneous searches in Delhi-NCR against the trustees and promoters of Faridabad-based Al Falah University, which has been at the centre of the probe into the Red Fort area car blast case. Siddiqui has been taken into custody under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and is being produced before a competent court for remand, they said. The agency has also seized Rs.48 lakh in cash during the searches that began around 5:15 am, said officials.
Multiple teams of the ED raided at least 25 premises of the Al Falah Trust and the university establishment. Officials of the agency also raided an office in Delhi’s Okhla area, with a security cordon being provided by the police and paramilitary forces. Fifteen people were killed in the blast that took place on November 10 near the iconic monument in Delhi, and the role of a number of doctors linked to the University and in Kashmir is under the scanner of anti-terror probe agencies.
“The operation forms part of an ongoing investigation into financial irregularities, use of shell companies, accommodation entities, and money laundering. The role of Al-Falah Trust and related entities is under investigation,” an ED official said. The official said “key” personnel overseeing finance and administration of the Trust and the university have also been covered in the raids. The agency has taken cognisance of the first information reports filed by the NIA and the Delhi Police in the case. Till now, the NIA has arrested two persons, stated to be the alleged close aides of “suicide bomber” Dr. Umar Nabi.
At least nine shell (dummy) companies linked to the group, all registered at a single address, are under the examination of the ED, according to the officials. The Al Falah varsity is located in the Dhouj area of Haryana’s Faridabad district, and it is a medical college-cum-hospital.
Recently, PGurus reported the shady past of Siddiqui. Siddiqui was arrested in 2001 and was in jail till 2004 for investment fraud and forgery. The criminal case was registered at Delhi’s New Friends Colony Police Station. He was born in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow, has been linked to nine companies, all of which are connected via the Al Falah Charitable Trust, which is the body that oversees the University’s functioning. These nine firms span the education, software, financial services, and energy sectors, and, in the first potential red flag, most of them share the same registered address. That address is the Al Falah House in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar neighbourhood.
The Al Falah Medical Research Foundation began in 1997 as an engineering college and now operates on a 78-acre campus. Now, however, it faces an inquiry by the NAAC. The Al-Falah Building is also the office of the Al Falah Charitable Trust.
Interestingly, Al Falah University got University Grants Commission (UGC) approval in 2015, when the Central government and Haryana State came under the BJP regime. The medical college got a license in 2019. How the Central government and State government under the BJP granted a license to Al Falah University, promoted by Jawed Ahmed Siddiqui, who has a dubious past. How come Intelligence agencies ignored the recruitment of a lot of doctors from Kashmir, and some of them were facing charges of sedition by the Jammu and Kashmir Police? These things show that Jawed Ahmed Siddiqui enjoys support from some powerful people in the BJP and the Modi government.[1]
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[1] Al Falah University founder jailed in Rs.7.5 cr cheating case. The question is how he got approval for the Medical College in 2019 – Nov 13, 2025, PGurus.com
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