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New Delhi: Faridabad-based Al Falah University appointed at least three doctors with alleged terror links—two later arrested by the National Investigation Agency and a third identified as the suicide bomber in the November 2025 blast near the Red Fort—without any police verification or background scrutiny, the Enforcement Directorate has found. The revelations form part of a money-laundering chargesheet filed in a Delhi court, naming Al Falah Group chairman Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui and the Al Falah Charitable Trust. Investigators allege the university generated illicit funds by charging fees while misrepresenting regulatory approvals and accreditations. According to the ED, senior faculty and executives told investigators that doctors were hired without police verification and, in several cases, were mainly employed “on paper” under arrangements such as “22 days punch” or “two days per week” to meet inspection norms of the National Medical Commission. These practices allegedly continued even during the NMC’s June 2025 inspection, after which the medical college was allowed to expand MBBS seats from 150 to 200. The ED has provisionally attached the university’s land and buildings in Faridabad’s Dhauj area, valued at about ₹140 crore. The court is yet to take cognisance of the chargesheet. Investigators recorded statements indicating that the Vice-Chancellor issued appointment letters for the three doctors—Dr Muzammil Ganaie, Dr Shaheen Saeed and Dr Umar Nabi—on recommendations from HR and with Siddiqui's approval, but without any police checks. Nabi was later identified as the suicide bomber in the Red Fort-area blast, while the NIA arrested Ganaie and Saeed, …