Overview
- The Indore bench granted interim protection of roughly 15 days, directing authorities to pause demolition and give the occupant time to submit documents and be heard before a reasoned decision.
- The Mhow Cantonment Board’s latest notice, issued November 19, gave a three-day ultimatum and cited 1996–97 notices, asserting the four-storey house is unauthorised construction on defence land with no valid title transfer.
- Petitioner Abdul Majid, who resides in the house, contends Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui gifted him the property in 2021 via a hibanama and argues the notice is vague and lacks a current assessment of alleged violations.
- Enforcement Directorate officials arrested Al Falah Group chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui on November 18 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in a case linked to alleged fraudulent NAAC accreditation claims.
- Police also arrested Siddiqui’s brother, Hamud (Hamood) Ahmed Siddiqui, in Hyderabad in long-pending investment fraud cases from around 2000, as investigators examine possible links of some Al Falah-affiliated doctors to the November 10 Red Fort blast.