Al-Falah University, Faridabad
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As of 2025
Samad Hoque & Anjali Singh TNN, Nov 12, 2025: The Times of India
Gurgaon : Al-Falah University, which started as an engineering college in 1997 in Faridabad’s Dhauj, is run by AlFalah Charitable Trust registered in Delhi’s Okhla. It became a university in 2014 after UGC recognition. The trust is headed by Jawahar Ahmed Siddiqui, who is also chancellor of the varsity. The first medicine batch began in 2019, and it now has 200 MBBS seats and 50 MD seats.
Over the years, the varsity has expanded its campus from 30 acres to over 70 acres through land acquisition from local villagers. In Jan 2025, former Haryana governor Bandaru Dattatreya inaugurated a newly constructed hospital building on the campus.
The institution has come under scrutiny following the alleged involvement of three of its MBBS course professors in a terror module. The varsity’s engineering department graduated its last batch in 2021, although some students are still clearing backlogs. The medical college, which began in 2016, admitted its first batch of MBBS students in 2019. Many of these graduates now serve as resident doctors at the university’s hospital. Admissions are conducted through department of medical education and research (DMER), Haryana.
University staffers, speaking anonymously, claimed the institution receives donations from Arab countries. “Foreign fundraisers from Arab nations visit the campus once a year. Though the college is run by a charitable trust, it has donors outside the country,” a staff member said.
The varsity charges Rs 16 lakh annually for MBBS courses, while fees for MD programmes range from Rs 2.5 lakh for anatomy to around Rs 30 lakh per year for pediatrics.
Another employee told TOI that the university organises short-term free medical check-up camps, usually lasting two to three months. According to a varsity official, recruitment across departments is managed by the Okhla head office under the supervision of chancellor Siddiqui’s associates Irfan and Razi. “They are key figures in the recruitment process,” the official said.
The university attracts students particularly from the Mewat region, Kashmir and Bihar. A staffer said the university was set up with an aim to provide educational opportunities to students from minority and underprivileged backgrounds. “Al-Falah University was envisioned to uplift students from Mewat belt by providing access to quality technical and medical education,” the official said.
Al-Falah Hospital, which began as a small dispensary in 1997, has now expanded into an 800-plus bed super-specialty facility offering emergency and specialised care in medicine, pediatrics, radiology, orthopedics, dentistry and respiratory diseases, among others.
The founder
Bagish Jha & Khushi Bhuta TNN, Nov 13, 2025: The Times of India
Gurgaon/New Delhi: Al-Falah University in Faridabad is linked to nine companies through its managing trustee Javed Ahmed Siddiqui, who is a director in nine firms that have a diverse range, from investment, education and software to energy, export and consultancy, Ministry of Corporate Affairs records show.
An engineering graduate from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya in Indore, Siddiqui is chairman of Al Falah Charitable Trust that runs the Faridabad-based Al-Falah University of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, which has become the focal point of a widening investigation into a module of radicalised doctors that was behind the blast near Red Fort metro station in Delhi on Nov 10 in which nine people died. Three doctors linked to the terror plot – Umar Un Nabi who was driving the car that blew up, Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie who was arrested on Oct 30, and Shaheen Shahid, arrested in Lucknow on Nov 11 – taught at Al-Falah.
Siddiqui’s oldest association is with Al-Falah Investment, according to the records, which show him joining the company on Sept 18, 1992. Among other companies he is part of is Al-Falah Software, Al-Falah Energies, Tarbia Education Foundation and Al-Falah Education Service, which is his newest association (joined on Dec 26, 2023).
Most companies have the same registered address: 274-A, Al-Falah House, Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi. This is the same building from where Al-Falah Charitable Trust operates. The university, now on a 78-acre campus, started as an engineering college in 1997. The trusts and companies also include the name of Usma Akhtar, who was part of the governing body of Al-Falah School of Engineering. According to her LinkedIn profile, she currently lives in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is associated with several businesses there. Usma’s name is also registered as director in companies like Al-Falah Education Service and MJH Developers. Aaliya Siddiqui’s name is also on the list of trustees.
Back in 2000, Siddiqui and his brother Saood Ahmed were named in an FIR (no. 43/2000) under sections 420 (cheating), 406 and 409 (criminal breach of trust), 468 (forgery for cheating), 471 (fraudulent use of forged documents) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC at New Friends Colony Police Station in New Delhi. They were accused of misappropriating Rs 7.5 crore in an investment scheme they floated. Among the complainant was KR Singh, who alleged he was cheated of Rs 95 lakh through the scheme that induced people to make deposits in group of companies, which were converted into shares later by fabrication of documents. Asked about this, a source at Al-Falah said the case had later been quashed.
Additional SP of Indore Rupesh Dwivedi said Siddiqui and his family used to live in Kayasth Mohalla in Mhow and his father Mohammad Hamid Siddiqui was the Seher Qazi of Mhow. “We are collecting information about his old contacts and relatives,” said Dwivedi. Officials at Al-Falah University’s Delhi office in Jamia Nagar told TOI it has no institutional connection to the doctors involved in the Old Delhi blast. The university’s head office is located on the ground floor of a building within a residential complex. Set in a quiet corner of a gated colony, the premises belongs to the trust.
Legal and finance officer Mohammad Razi said the university was unaware of the doctors’ activities beyond their professional duties. “We have many meritorious students whose education should not be affected because of this,” he said. Responding to claims that explosive materials were prepared in the university’s laboratories, Razi said it was not possible to make such substances there. He said the university has biochemistry, anatomy, pathology and physiology laboratories where such materials cannot be kept. “We have children studying there. Why would someone want to set their own house on fire?” he asked.
Earlier in the day, in its first reaction since the arrest of Muzammil on Oct 30, Vice-chancellor Prof Bhupinder Kaur Anand expressed deep anguish over “unfortunate developments” and said the university was fully cooperating with investigations. Anand’s statement said, “We have learnt that two of our doctors have been detained by investigating agencies. We wish to make it clear that the university has no connection with the said persons apart from them working in their official capacities with the university.”
It condemned “baseless and misleading stories” being circulated online “to malign its reputation” and categorically denied claims of any prohibited chemical or material being used, stored or handled within its premises. “All laboratory activities are carried out in strict adherence to established safety protocols, statutory norms, and ethical standards mandated by the regulatory authorities,” the statement read.
