Al-Falah Group Under Scanner After Red Fort Car Blast, ED Arrests Chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui
New Delhi/Chandigarh: The multi-layered Al-Falah Group scandal, already under the scanner after the Red Fort car blast, exposure of a terror funding module, and what investigators now call a case of “white-collar terror”, has taken a sharp turn with the Enforcement Directorate arresting the group’s Chairman Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui.
Siddiqui was arrested on 18 November 2025 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, following what ED officers describe as a “clinching trail of financial evidence” gathered during extensive searches at premises linked to the Al-Falah network. 13A special court has granted the agency 13 days’ custody for deeper interrogation.
According to ED officials, the financial probe has now overlapped with ongoing security investigations triggered after the Red Fort incident, where an abandoned car laden with suspicious material set off national alarm bells. Initial arrests in that case exposed a money trail allegedly routed through shell firms and charitable fronts linked to the Al-Falah conglomerate.
Earlier Himbumail.com reports highlighted how the group’s operations spanned real estate, education, foreign funding channels, and offshore accounts—most of them now under forensic audit.
Agencies suspect that layers of “legitimate business” were used to camouflage high-value transfers possibly linked to radical modules operating across northern India.
Sources say the ED is now zeroing in on the financial architecture that allowed the alleged laundering—fake loans, benami investments, round-tripping, foreign remittances and suspicious land deals—marking what officers unofficially term “a corporate mask over a covert network.”
With Siddiqui now in custody, investigators are expected to confront him with digital evidence, transaction records, and communications recovered during the searches.
This tightening probe signals more action in the coming days as agencies unravel what they believe is one of the most sophisticated intersections of corporate finance, radicalisation networks, and white-collar crime uncovered in recent years.
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