A serious case of land fraud, now central to the ongoing Al-Falah case investigation, has been uncovered, involving the alleged creation and use of a forged General Power of Attorney (GPA) to sell prime land in New Delhi. Investigation has found that the land, comprised in Khasra No. 792, Madanpur Khadar, was ultimately acquired by the Tarbia Education Foundation of Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui based on this fraudulent document.
Siddiqui, Al-Falah University founder and chancellor, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). According to reports, investigators have detected irregular financial transactions across several firms linked to Siddiqui.
The agency is also probing whether funds generated
through the alleged laundering were diverted to terror-linked activities, including any association with suspects tied to the recent Red Fort blast probe.
Al-Falah University has come under the scanner ever since the Delhi car blast case investigation pointed to individuals with alleged links to the varsity. The November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort killed at least 13 people and triggered a nationwide terror investigation.
The land fraud investigation allegedly reveals a startling conspiracy: a GPA dated January 7, 2004, was created showing multiple individuals as executants, signing or giving their thumb impressions in favour of one Vinod Kumar. Crucially, the probe established that several of these supposed executants were, in fact, already deceased, some having passed away decades before the document’s execution date.
Specific instances cited show landowners who died between 1972 and 1998—including Nathu s/o Late Sh. Summan (died 01.01.1972), Harbans Singh s/o Tirkha Ram (died 27.04.1991), and Jay Ram s/o Harpal (died 15.10.1998)—were falsely represented as having signed the GPA in 2004. This established fact means the signatures and thumb impressions on the GPA are false and fabricated, as a deceased person legally cannot execute such an instrument, rendering the document void ab initio.
Despite the clear lack of legal authority, this forged GPA was allegedly utilised nearly a decade later to execute a registered sale deed dated June 27, 2013. This deed recorded the sale of the land in Khasra No. 792, including the undivided shares belonging to the deceased original owners, to the Tarbia Education Foundation for a consideration of Rs 75,00,000. Vinod Kumar signed the sale deed as the attorney for the multiple co-owners, relying entirely on the fraudulently executed 2004 GPA.
The current probe concludes that the entire process—from the creation of the GPA to the eventual registered sale—was founded on forgery and fraud. The investigation has identified the Tarbia Education Foundation, controlled by Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui, as the ultimate beneficiary that acquired the land based on this systematically fabricated documentation. This aspect of the Al-Falah case adds a land fraud dimension to the larger scrutiny Siddiqui and his entities are currently facing from law enforcement agencies.
