New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a chargesheet against Al-Falah University chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui and the Al-Falah Charitable Trust in a money-laundering probe linked to the terror attack near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10.
The ED also attached assets worth Rs 139 crore, including a 54-acre parcel of land within the Al-Falah campus in Faridabad, NDTV reported citing agency officials.
The chargesheet includes strong evidence of alleged financial irregularities in the university by Siddiqui and his family members.
In its probe, ED found that firms controlled by the Siddiqui family allegedly received contracts for hostel catering and construction of the university and hospital complex. ED has also claimed that Al-Falah Charitable Trust acquired land using university funds, HT reported last month.
Eleven people were killed after Umar-un-Nabi, a doctor at Al-Falah Medical College, carried out a suicide car bombing near the Red Fort gate in November.
ED arrested Siddiqui eight days later on money-laundering charges after it emerged that Al-Falah University had made “fraudulent and misleading claims” about its accreditation to deceive students, parents, and stakeholders for wrongful gain.
The Red Fort car blast alarmed the country as the case was found to be linked to a wider probe into a white-collar terror module. Two dozen people, including three doctors, have been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Jammu & Kashmir Police.
