Investigators from the Delhi Police Special Cell and the Madhya Pradesh Police arrived in Mhow on Friday to search the home of Al-Falah University director Javed Ahmed Siddiqui and speak with his family in connection with the explosion near the Red Fort.
Their visit came a day after the National Investigation Agency expanded its inquiry into a suspected terror network linked to Al-Falah Medical College and its parent university in Faridabad. The agency has requested records going back to 2019 as part of its investigation into Monday’s tragic blast.
On Thursday, teams from the NIA and Delhi Police searched the Al-Falah Group’s Okhla office, collecting documents related to property and finances. According to officials, the NIA has asked the university for detailed information on hostel records, hiring practices, and financial dealings. Investigators are examining whether three doctors — Umar Un Nabi, believed to be the driver of the car that exploded near Red Fort, along with Shaheen Shahid and Muzammil Shakeel Ganaie — used their positions to mobilise people, gather funds, or manage logistics for the attack.
A joint police team reached Mhow early on Friday and began checking financial links and possible associations between Siddiqui and the two MBBS doctors who were arrested earlier in the week. Officers involved in the operation said that, so far, there is no evidence tying the university directly to the bombing.
At the Okhla office, the institution’s legal advisor, Mohammad Raazi, said the university had no knowledge of the activities of the involved doctors. He added that the campus had never been used for any funding or experiment connected to terrorism and assured that all documents requested by authorities had been handed over.
The growing investigation has also renewed attention on the administration and financial operations of Al-Falah University. According to Delhi Police officers, Siddiqui has been linked with the Al-Falah group since the 1990s and is associated with nine different institutions, many of which operate from the same Okhla address.
Siddiqui was once jailed in a cheating case in 2000, accused of diverting seven and a half crore rupees from investors through fraudulent investment schemes. At the time, he was alleged to have convinced people to invest in shell companies under the Al-Falah name, including Al-Falah Education Service, Al-Falah Investment Ltd, and Al-Falah Exports. Though he spent three years in prison, he was eventually acquitted in 2005.
Police officials said that more searches are likely across Delhi, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh as they work to uncover the financial and organisational structure behind the alleged module.
