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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Al Falah University chairman Javed Ahmad Siddiqui in a money laundering case on Tuesday evening. He was arrested on a day that saw the sleuths conducting raids at 25 premises linked to the university.
During the search operation, the ED officials seized several documents and digital evidence. The agency is also probing whether the funds have been diverted towards terror-related activities. The arrest took place as several doctors and staff members were either being detained or interrogated in the Delhi Red Fort blast case, in which at least 13 people lost their lives and several others were injured.
Dr Umar un Nabi, was driving the explosions-ridden car that exploded near the Red Fort metro station. After the devastation, the authorities carried out a probe across the country and detained several suspects.
Javed Ahmad Siddiqui was born in Madhya Pradesh district of Mhow. He is linked to nine companies that are linked to Al-Falah Charitable Trust, which is the governing body of the university. These firms are from various fields, including software, energy, financial services and education. All these offices shared a single registered address in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar.
Among the nine firms are - Al-Falah Investment (the first, formed in 1992); Al-Falah Medical Research Foundation (where Saeed, Shakeel and others allegedly worked and met to plan a possible 32-car serial bomb attack); Al-Falah Developers Pvt Ltd; Al-Falah Industrial Research Foundation; Al-Falah Education Service Pvt Ltd; MJH Developers Pvt Ltd; Al-Falah Software Pvt Ltd; Al-Falah Energies Pvt Ltd; and Tarbia Education Foundation.
As per reports, most of these firms remained active until 2019. While most of them either shut down or became dormant, the Al-Falah Medical Research Foundation continued to function. While the foundation started in 1997 as an engineering college, but now occupies as a 78-acre campus.
