In the ongoing probe into Al-Falah University's fake NAAC accreditation claims—linked to the November 2025 Red Fort car blast—Delhi Police has filed two charge sheets citing statements from at least eight former students who were misled into enrolling.
Delhi Police filed two charge sheets, exceeding 3,000 pages in total, against Faridabad-based Al-Falah University in Saket court on Wednesday. The filings, based on statements from at least eight former students in engineering or education programs, address false claims of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation and misrepresentation of qualifications under Section 12(b) of the University Grants Commission Act.
The B.Ed college's NAAC accreditation expired in 2016, and the engineering college's in 2019, yet the university continued promoting it on its website. All affected students enrolled post-2016 and cited accreditation as crucial for job prospects; they now face employment hurdles due to questionable degrees.
This follows earlier actions in the probe, including the January custody of university founder Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui and Enforcement Directorate charges for Rs 415 crore money laundering, with properties worth Rs 139.97 crore attached.
The scrutiny originated from the November 10, 2025, Red Fort blast that killed 13, where Umar Nabi—a doctor at the university's Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences & Research Centre—drove the explosive vehicle. Suspects Shaheen Ansari and Muzammil Ganai were arrested with 350 kg of explosives. Eleven accused are in custody so far. The National Investigation Agency conducted searches at nine locations in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
