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Red Fort Blast Investigation Widens: NIA Targets Al-Falah University, New Detentions Reported

The focus has shifted to whether faculty positions were used to recruit operatives.

Overview

  • National Investigation Agency teams sought records dating back to 2019 from Al-Falah University, seizing hundreds of physical and digital files and sealing select rooms and a laboratory.
  • At least five more people were detained, including two doctors in Uttar Pradesh and two Al-Falah staffers, while police pursue another doctor now abroad with a Red Corner Notice issued by J&K Police.
  • Financial scrutiny deepened as the Enforcement Directorate began examining potential funding links and investigators raided the Al-Falah Group’s Okhla office and the university director’s home in Mhow.
  • The university faces regulatory heat with AIU suspending its membership and NAAC issuing a show-cause notice over false accreditation claims, as the NMC signalled possible action against implicated doctors.
  • Investigators traced fertilizer and ammonium nitrate purchases to Nuh and nearby markets funded by pooled money, seized a fourth vehicle linked to suspects, and oversaw the demolition of Dr Umar Nabi’s Pulwama house after DNA confirmed he drove the blast car.