- Mhow Cantonment Board issues final notice over unauthorised building extensions
- Structure linked to family of Al-Falah University chairman under three-decade dispute
- Notice comes as sibling of chairman arrested after 25 years on the run in fraud cases
- Added pressure as family faces investigations linked to Delhi blast probe
GG News Bureau
Faridabad, 20th Nov: In a fresh setback for the family of Al-Falah University chairman Mohammad Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, the Mhow Cantonment Board in Madhya Pradesh has issued a final demolition notice for illegal construction at their ancestral residence in Mukeri Mohalla.
Officials have given the occupants three days to remove the unauthorised structure, warning that failure to comply will prompt demolition at the owner’s cost. The notice, displayed prominently on the building, cites prolonged violations involving structural extensions that were never cleared despite repeated directions over nearly three decades.
Records show earlier notices were served in 1996 and 1997 under the Cantonments Act, 1924. The four-storey structure, known locally as Maulana’s Building, was built in the 1990s and remains a well-known landmark in the Kayastha neighbourhood. It belonged to the late Mohammad Hammad Siddiqui, father of Jawad.
The development comes amid renewed attention on the Siddiqui family following a high-profile fraud investigation. Earlier this week, Madhya Pradesh Police arrested Jawad’s younger brother Hamud Ahmad Siddiqui in Hyderabad after nearly 25 years of evading arrest in multiple investment fraud cases filed in Mhow in 2000. Police have said the scam amount may rise beyond the ₹40 lakh documented so far.
Hamud had been using a new identity while operating a stock market investment firm in Gachibowli. His arrest was part of a crackdown on long-absconding offenders.
While Jawad is not named in the Mhow fraud FIRs, the timing of events has triggered local and national scrutiny, particularly as Al-Falah University finds itself linked to the November 10 explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort that killed 13 people. The prime accused, Dr Umar Mohammad, had taught at the university. A National Investigation Agency team recently visited Burhanpur as part of its probe.
With the demolition notice reviving a long-pending property dispute, the Siddiqui family is facing simultaneous administrative and investigative pressures. Whether the illegal extensions will be voluntarily cleared or demolished by authorities will likely be known in the coming days.
