200 doctors, staff of Al Falah University under scanner after Red Fort car blast

Many people have deleted their mobile data, which will also be investigated, the sources said.

More than 200 doctors and staff at Al Falah University here are under the scanner of the investigative agencies following the blast in a car near the Red Fort on November 10, sources said.

Security agencies have been conducting frequent checks at Al Falah University, raising concerns among university students and staff. On Wednesday, several university employees were seen leaving the gates with their belongings packed in vehicles.

According to university sources, they are taking leave and returning to their homes. The investigating agencies are ascertaining the number of individuals who left the university after the blast and are trying to identify them. They suspect a number of these individuals were linked to the terrorists, the sources said. Many people have deleted their mobile data, which will also be investigated, the sources said.

Police are searching the hostels and the rooms of students living outside the university campus and more than 1,000 people have been questioned, the sources added. The investigating agencies detained a 35-year-old woman who rented a room to suicide bomber Dr Umar Un Nabi in Hidayat Colony in Nuh. The Anganwadi worker woman had been absconding since the Delhi bombings. Her family is also under investigation following the incident.

The sources said the investigating agencies also questioned seven other people in Nuh to find out Umar’s connection with them. The suicide bomber had used multiple mobile phones while staying at Nuh’s rented room. Ever since the Al Falah Medical College’s links to terrorism have come to light following the blast near the Red Fort Metro station, the number of patients to its hospital has also declined.

Previously, approximately 200 patients used to visit the hospital’s outpatient department every day, which has now dropped to less than 100, hospital sources said. The investigating agencies are trying to determine if there was a handler inside the university because Umar used to get ”special treatment” in the institute.

Two doctors, who are doing apprenticeship here after studying MBBS from the university, said that Umar was absent from the hospital and university for nearly six months without any leave and information in 2023. The strange aspect of the incident is that he directly resumed duty on his return and no action was taken against him, the hospital sources said. They said Umar used to take very few classes.

He would only take one or two lectures a week, and even those would last just 15 to 20 minutes. He would then return to his room. The other lecturers did not like this as they would teach for the entire time. In a shocking revelation, the doctors said Umar was always assigned the evening or night shifts at the hospital. He was never assigned the morning shifts. Several investigation teams are currently working at Al Falah University.

In addition to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), units from the Delhi Police Special Cell, Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), Faridabad Crime Branch and the Jammu and Kashmir Police are constantly visiting the university. On Tuesday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) also landed at the university. All these investigation teams have set up a temporary command centre inside the university.