Al-Falah University Under Police Scrutiny Following Red Fort Blast Investigation, ETEducation
After an alleged white-collar terror module involving doctors at Al-Falah University in Faridabad with purported links to the Delhi blast was busted last year, police have directed the varsity to conduct police verification of all new students and staff.
Investigations into the Nov 10 blast, which killed 15 people, led agencies to Al-Falah University. Dr Mohd Umar Nabi, identified as the suicide bomber, and two other alleged conspirators—Dr Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie and Dr Shahin Shaheed—were working there as doctors and teaching MBBS course.
DCP Faridabad (NIT) Maqsood Ahmed has instructed officers to collect details of all new students seeking admission for the upcoming academic session. A special verification drive has also been ordered on the campus.
“We will conduct a special verification drive in the university to check details of all new students. I have directed the SHO of the station concerned to start the verification process. We need details of all new students, especially those from outside Faridabad or from other states, including Jammu and Kashmir. Even new staff will be appointed only after police verification,” DCP Ahmed told TOI.
Sources said several staff members left the university after national and state investigating agencies intensified action on the campus. Many students also returned home. Parents of several students met university authorities, seeking assurances about the safety of their children’s degrees and careers after the arrests of doctors and the prolonged questioning of students and staff.
The investigation gained pace after Dr Muzammil Ganaie (35) was arrested by a J&K Police team on Oct 30. He managed the emergency wing of the university hospital and had been associated with Al-Falah for more than three years.
After his arrest, police said they recovered nearly 2,900kg explosive and flammable materials, a Krinkov assault rifle with three magazines, 83 live cartridges, a pistol with eight live rounds, two empty cartridges, two additional magazines, 12 suitcases, a bucket filled with explosive material, 20 timers, four batteries, remote controls, and a walkie-talkie set from two rooms he had recently rented.
Although Dr Muzammil stayed on the Al-Falah campus, the explosives were recovered from two nearby locations—Dauj village and Dehar Colony in Fatehpur Taga.
The probe widened after investigators found that Dr Muzammil was using a Swift Dzire registered in the name of Dr Shahin Shaheed. Dr Shahin, a doctor from Lucknow and described by investigators as Dr Muzammil’s girlfriend, was also teaching MBBS students at Al-Falah. She was taken into custody by J&K Police in Lucknow after an assault rifle was recovered from her car in Faridabad, which police said had been placed there by Dr Muzammil.
The third accused, Mohd Umar Nabi, was allegedly seen driving the i20 that exploded near Red Fort on the evening of Nov 10. He, too, had been teaching MBBS students at Al-Falah University for the past three years.
Al-Falah University has around 250 faculty members across MBBS, pharmacy, and paramedical courses, and is among the major private medical education institutions in the region.
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