Terror Trail on Campus: Inside the Al-Falah University Link to the Delhi Car Blast

A Sinister Campus Connection

In a dramatic turn of events in the Delhi car blast case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) along with other agencies have focused their investigation on Al-Falah University in Faridabad. The police are trying to establish the connection between radicalised doctors from the university who might have been the reason for the car bomb near Delhi’s Red Fort.

The Brezza on Campus

The university had a Maruti Brezza parked in its premises which was linked to Dr. Shaheen Shahid, a doctor who was arrested in the investigation. The police are looking at the CCTV footage along with the vehicle registration and the campus entry records to identify the locations where the terrorists might have been operating.

Explosives and Hidden Rooms

Al-Falah medical college investigators disclose that the storage of ammonium nitrate was in Room 13 of Building 17. Besides this, arms and explosives for IEDs were found in the remote areas that were connected with the network of the university.

Who Were the Key Figures?

The three doctors from the university Dr. Umar Un Nabi, Dr. Muzammil Ahmad Ganaie, and Dr. Shaheen Shahid are the centre of the police investigation. Umar is alleged to have been the one who drove the car used in the blast, and Muzammil's landlord says that explosives were stored in his rented house. The investigators' recovery of their handwritten notes led them to believe that the trio had built a terror network of 25-30 individuals from Jammu & Kashmir and Faridabad.

Regulatory and Institutional Fallout

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has taken cognisance of this issue and started monitoring the situation closely. At the same time, the university asserts its full cooperation with the police and contends that its association with the accused doctors was limited to the workplace. To add fuel to the fire, the NAAC has sent a show-cause letter to Al-Falah University on the account of alleging that the university falsely declared itself as accredited.

Why This Case Matters

This scandal is jarring on multiple fronts:

● It lays bare the mechanisms by which a medical-academic institution may be cannibalised for extremist causes.

● Moreover, it provokes very serious questions about the robustness of the vetting procedures in universities, particularly in regard to sensitive positions.

● Finally, the case also highlights the vexing issue of increased threats to national security when radiant networks use professional careers as a ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌cover.