Before inspection, Al Falah hired docs, arranged patients, set up clinics: ED in probe after Red Fort Blast
The Faridabad-based Al Falah University, under the scanner of probe agencies after three doctors there were identified as suspects in the November 10, 2025 explosion outside the Red Fort, hired doctors prior to inspection and showed them as regular doctors on rolls to mislead the National Medical Commission (NMC), got intermediaries to arrange patients and hurriedly set up clinical facilities before the inspection.
These are some of the claims of the Enforcement Directorate which is probing the Al Falah Charitable Trust linked to the Al Falah University.
On Friday, the ED filed a prosecution complaint, akin to a chargesheet, against the university’s founder-chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui and the Trust, and attached immovable properties valued at Rs 139.97 crore. Siddiqui was arrested by the agency on November 18 last year on the charge of money laundering.
According to the ED investigation, the hiring of faculty prior to the NMC inspection to show them as regular faculty involved illegal gratification.
The probe agency, after analysing multiple chats, claimed there was presence there of “on paper” doctors.
The university, according to the ED investigation, made false claims to lure students. Nine shell companies linked to the group are under scrutiny as part of the investigation into alleged financial irregularities.
In remand papers before Additional Sessions Judge Sheetal Chaudhary Pradhan of Saket Court, the ED, represented by Special Public Prosecutor Simon Benjamin, said, “By allegedly fabricating and misrepresenting its NAAC accreditation status and falsely claiming UGC recognition under Section 12(B), Al-Falah University has not only violated regulatory norms but has also irreparably harmed the lives and career prospects of countless students who relied on these claims in good faith.”
Sources said the ED investigation also found irregularities in the employment of doctors already on rolls. These included the presence of doctors categorised as “22 days punch”, “on paper”, and “two-day visits”. These categories, the ED claimed, were shown to the NMC as “regular doctors”.
According to the ED, certificates for the establishment of various UG and PG courses were obtained from the Haryana government by Siddiqui and the Al Falah Charitable Trust/University through “fraudulent means”.
It said these involved obtaining permissions from regulators through forged and manipulated means. The Trust, according to the ED, generated “proceeds of crime” quantified at Rs 493.24 crore. These, it claimed, were fee receipts “obtained by inducing admissions”.
