The Faridabad Police have constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate Al-Falah University’s alleged connections with the Delhi Red Fort blast case. The move comes amid simultaneous investigations being carried out by multiple central agencies into the blast network.
What Will the SIT Investigate?
The newly formed SIT is headed by two ACP-rank officers and assisted by an inspector and two sub-inspectors. According to officials, the team has been tasked with uncovering how the university’s environment allegedly enabled an extremist module to operate unnoticed for years.
The SIT will investigate:
- How the accused doctors used the university campus as a safe base
- Funding patterns and financial trails linked to the suspects
- Procurement, storage, and transportation of explosives from Faridabad to Delhi
- Local support networks, including potential facilitators from nearby villages
- Disappearance of several faculty members since the case came to light
- Security lapses within the university that allowed the module to remain undetected
Faridabad Police Commissioner Satender Kumar Gupta has directed the team to map every operational link connected to the suspects.
Explosives Traced to Faridabad’s Dhauj Village
Initial findings have revealed that the explosive material used in the Red Fort blast originated from Dhauj village in Faridabad. The SIT is now conducting a discreet investigation along this route to identify:
- Possible suppliers or facilitators
- Operational gaps that allowed the suspects to evade security checks
- Local networks that may have assisted in transporting the explosives
Haryana DGP Flags “Collapse of Internal Security Mechanisms”
Haryana DGP OP Singh visited the Al-Falah University campus earlier this week and expressed serious concern over what he described as a complete breakdown of internal security systems within the institution.
He instructed the Faridabad Deputy Commissioner and the Police Commissioner to personally monitor the investigation and “lead from the front.”
University Faces Immediate Consequences
In a related development, Al-Falah University has been excluded from the North Zone Inter-University Cricket Tournament hosted by Aligarh Muslim University.
Over 80 universities participate in the event each year.
The scheduled match between Al-Falah University and Manav Rachna University on November 22 has been cancelled due to ongoing investigations and heightened security concerns.
