New Delhi: The now infamous Al-Falah University had appointed the alleged suicide bomber who blew himself up outside Delhi’s Red Fort in November 2025, and other medical faculty—now in jail for their role in the plot—without police verification or scrutiny, the Enforcement Directorate alleged Friday.
Their appointments were initiated and recommended by the head of the university’s human resources department, Dr Jameel Khan and finally approved by the chairman, Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, the agency has alleged.
The federal probe agency made these allegations in the prosecution complaint filed Friday in a Delhi court, against the university chairman Siddiqui and the Al-Falah Charitable Trust run by him. (A prosecution complaint is Enforcement Directorate’s version of a charge sheet.)
The ED’s probe is limited to the accumulation of funds by the university and its uses under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The investigation into the Delhi blast itself is being carried out separately by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The ED also attached 20 buildings on the university campus, spread across 54 acres in Dhouj in Haryana, worth approximately Rs 140 crore.
The agency has based these allegations on statements from several key managerial staff at the university, including the vice chancellor and principal, and on documentary evidence seized during raids at the university and the Delhi office of the Al-Falah Charitable Trust.
The university has been in the spotlight after the Jammu and Kashmir Police raided the medical institute, weeks before blast which killed 15, and arrested two serving faculty members—Muzamil Shakeel Ganie and Shaheen Saeed—for being members of a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror module.
Dr Umar Nabi, the man who drove the I-20 car which exploded outside the Red Fort 10 November, was in the university during the Jammu and Kashmir Police raids, but was not arrested along with the other two, and fled while they were being interrogated.
The agency has now relied on the statement of Bhupinder Kaur Anand, the vice-chancellor, who submitted a detailed timeline of employment of the doctors-cum-faculty accused of running a terror module.
The agency submitted in the prosecution complaint Friday that Nabi had been working as an assistant professor in the general medicine department at the university since May 2024.
“She (Anand) confirmed that doctors who were later reported to be involved in terror-related activities viz. Dr. Muzammil, a junior resident in general medicine since October 2021, Dr Shaheen, an associate professor in pharmacology since October 2021, and Dr Umar Nabi, an assistant professor in general medicine since May 2024, were appointed during her tenure,” the agency said, citing the statement of Bhupinder Kaur Anand in the prosecution complaint, a copy of which ThePrint has seen.
“She further clarified that said appointments were initiated and recommended by Dr Jamil Khan, but finally approved by Chancellor Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui, following which the formal appointment letters were issued by her as vice chancellor. She also confirmed that no police verification or scrutiny was conducted in respect of those candidates/doctors,” the agency further cited her statements.
An examination of documents and digital evidence seized from Al-Falah University also suggested several other shortcomings in the hiring of faculty and other staff. The agency alleged that several faculty members were hired “on paper” to bypass regulatory necessity for inspection by the National Medical Commission and other authorities.
In their statements to the agency, both the VC and the university’s chief financial officer, Mohammed Razi, explained that “on paper” arrangement was a practice within the university in which faculty were listed as regular employees for regulatory compliance.
“Both have confessed in their Section 50 statement with ED that the ‘on paper’ doctors are the ones who, as per records, are in the pay roll of the university/college, but in actual they neither attend college on a regular basis nor take classes or attend patients in the hospital. The ‘on paper doctors’ are employed only for the purpose of NMC (National Medical Commission) and other regulatory inspections,” the agency alleged in the complaint.
This is an updated version of the report.
(Edited by Viny Mishra)
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