#JustIn: NIA Recovers ₹18 Lakh From Al-Falah University Women's Hostel Room of Dr Shaheen Saeed
NIA seizes massive cash haul from accused professor’s university room.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has recovered Rs 18 lakh in cash from Room 22 of the women’s hostel at Al-Falah University in Faridabad, a room that belonged to Dr Shaheen Saeed, the prime accused in the November 10 Red Fort blast that claimed 15 lives and left dozens injured. The cash was neatly wrapped in a plastic bag and concealed deep inside a closet, discovered during an intensive search operation conducted on Thursday when Saeed was brought back to the campus for crime-scene reconstruction.
Under heavy security, investigators escorted Saeed through her former hostel room, faculty cabin, and the very classrooms where she taught, gathering crucial evidence. The discovery of such a substantial amount of unaccounted currency has now become a focal point of the probe, with the NIA suspecting it to be part of terror funds routed through clandestine hawala networks from across the border.
Separate leads have revealed that Saeed and her co-accused husband Dr Muzammil Shakeel purchased a silver Maruti Suzuki Brezza entirely in cash on September 25 this year. Registered in Haryana as HR 87U 9988 and later recovered from the university’s medical college campus, the SUV was one of at least 32 vehicles allegedly acquired across northern India to be loaded with explosives or used as transport for future attacks.
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What started as a personal relationship between two divorced doctors working at the same institution quickly morphed into a lethal terror conspiracy after Saeed was radicalised through campus religious circles. She was subsequently recruited and trained by Jamaat ul-Mominaat, the women’s wing of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed, eventually rising to command its Indian operations while using her respectable medical identity as perfect cover for moving money and messages.
On Friday, Saeed, Muzammil Shakeel, and third accused Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather—all stripped of their medical licences—were produced before a special NIA court in Delhi. With the suicide bomber Dr Umar Mohammad also confirmed to be an Al-Falah affiliate, the university has emerged as a critical recruitment and radicalisation hub for the JeM module responsible for one of the deadliest strikes on the national capital in decades.
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