Delhi Court Extends Al Falah Chairman Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui’s Custody by 14 Days

Overview

• Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui will remain in judicial custody until the next hearing on March 27 in the ED’s probe linked to the November 2025 Red Fort blast.
• The judge issued a notice to the ED on Siddiqui’s application seeking copies of documents relied upon in the chargesheet to prepare his defence.
• The ED arrested Siddiqui in November and alleges about Rs 45 crore in proceeds of crime, with immovable properties worth Rs 139.97 crore provisionally attached in January.
• Delhi Police Crime Branch has registered FIRs on a UGC complaint and arrested Siddiqui on forgery charges, alleging the university kept projecting lapsed 2018 accreditation to attract students.
• Investigators have linked university-associated doctors to the Red Fort car bomb, naming suspects including Umar Nabi and reporting explosives seized at the Faridabad campus, while a Special NIA court separately extended the blast probe by 45 days and the custody of seven accused until March 13.