'An oversight’: Al-Falah University's 1st reaction to NAAC notice

FARIDABAD: Al Falah University successful Faridabad has responded to a show-cause announcement issued by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), saying that the outdated accreditation displayed connected its website was “an oversight.

” The assemblage confirmed that the accusation has present been removed and expressed regret for the "website plan error."The effect comes amid an ongoing probe by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into alleged fiscal irregularities astatine the Al-Falah group, which runs the university, a infirmary and a aesculapian assemblage successful Faridabad. ED sources accidental crores of rupees were allegedly siphoned disconnected to family-linked entities, with contracts for operation and catering awarded to companies owned by the household of the group’s chairman, Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui. Siddiqui was arrested connected Tuesday by the ED nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) pursuing searches astatine 25 premises linked to the group. Investigators reportedly seized implicit Rs 48 lakh successful cash, aggregate integer devices and documents pointing to ammunition companies and imaginable diversion of funds. Court records enactment that betwixt FY 2018–19 and 2024–25, Al-Falah institutions generated astir Rs 415.10 crore successful education-related receipts.

The ED alleges that these funds were obtained done cheating, forgery and the usage of fabricated documents during periods erstwhile the assemblage misrepresented its accreditation and statutory status. The probe is described arsenic “nascent” but serious, with custodial interrogation deemed indispensable to hint further proceeds of transgression and forestall the dissipation of assets. The probe follows 2 FIRs filed by the Delhi Police Crime Branch alleging that the assemblage made fraudulent claims astir NAAC and UGC accreditation to mislead students and parents. The University Grants Commission (UGC) had earlier clarified that Al-Falah University is recognised lone nether Section 2(f) arsenic a State Private University and has ne'er applied nether Section 12(B), making it ineligible for grants nether that provision.