Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate, which issued the order Tuesday, provisionally attached Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui’s Jamia Nagar home, Dhauj farmland next to Al-Falah University, demat holdings, bank balances, and fixed deposits.
- The money-laundering case flows from three Delhi Police FIRs that accuse the university of passing off expired NAAC ‘A’ accreditation as valid, falsely claiming UGC Section 12B status, and using on-paper faculty and fake patients to secure medical regulator approvals.
- ED investigators say the trust and university generated ₹493.24 crore in proceeds of crime between 2016–17 and 2024–25 and routed funds to family-controlled firms such as Karkun Construction & Developers, Amla Enterprises LLP, and Diyala Construction & Developers, with some money sent abroad.
- In January, the agency attached land and buildings at the Faridabad campus valued at ₹144.09 crore and filed a prosecution complaint in a Special PMLA Court, while Siddiqui remains in judicial custody after a recent arrest in a separate land acquisition case.
- Scrutiny of Al-Falah intensified after officials linked staff to the November 10, 2025 Red Fort–area blast, and the latest freeze keeps pressure on the trust as PMLA proceedings continue.