Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad, which was linked to the November 10 blast at Red Fort in Delhi, has filled all 150 MBBS seats for the 2025-26 academic session, college officials said on Wednesday.
According to Hindustan Times, Al-Falah School of Medical Sciences & Research Center under Al-Falah University has received approval from the National Medical Commission (NMC) to admit the first batch of MBBS students in 2019.
The college offers 150 MBBS seats. The fee for the first year is ₹16,37,500 for Indian nationals and $32,900 for NRI students, the HT report added.
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The Haryana Medical Education and Research Department conducts NEET-UG based counseling for MBBS admissions to all medical colleges in the state including Al-Falah.
Document verification of the students was done after their names were included in the provisional allotment list based on their choice of colleges.
The verification process is underway at Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences Rohtak, the state’s state medical college, HT reported.
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After three regular rounds of counseling held between August 8 and October 22 left 15 seats vacant, the college filled all the remaining seats in the so-called stray round on November 13, as per the preliminary allotment list released on November 17. Newly admitted students are scheduled to start on Thursday.
By November 13, investigators had identified a link between Faridabad’s Al Falah Medical College and the November 10 blast that killed 13 people near Red Fort in Delhi.
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“During counselling, students often choose to upgrade to secure admissions in colleges better aligned with their NEET-UG scores. Many who initially joined us in the first round later moved on to other colleges when they got government colleges, while some upgraded to our college from elsewhere,” a faculty member from Al-Falah Medical College’s admission committee told HT.
“After three rounds, we were left with 15 vacancies, but the counseling offices allotted them all in a vicious circle to students who had chosen our college during the selection-fill-counseling process,” the official said.
“One incident cannot define a college’s reputation”
Dr Vivek Singh Malik, professor at PGIMS Rohtak and vice-president of the Haryana State Medical Teachers Association (HSMTA), said a single incident cannot define the college’s reputation.
“Al-Falah may be a private college, but it has to follow government norms set by the NMC and other regulatory bodies. Students choose it primarily because its fees are lower than other private medical colleges in the state that charge more ₹25 crore annually,” Malik said.
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Officials at the National Medical Commission (NMC) said the top medical regulator will provide its required inputs to the investigating agencies after they look into everything related to the incident and decide on the next course of action based on their findings.
Al-Falah University under control, group chairman arrested
Al Falah University has come under scrutiny following the arrest of several doctors in connection with the November 10 blast near Delhi’s Red Fort that killed 13 people and injured many others. Suicide bomber, Dr. Umar Un Nabi, a resident of Kashmir, was associated with the university.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday said it has arrested Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, chairman of the Al Falah Group, in a money laundering case.
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This development comes as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has intensified its investigation of Al-Falah University by extending it to the financial operations of Al-Falah Trust, its affiliated firms and personnel managing the institution’s administrative and financial systems.
The ED has initiated an investigation against the Al Falah Group based on two FIRs registered by the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police on allegations that the Faridabad-based Al-Falah University made fraudulent and misleading claims about National Assessment Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation with the intention of deceiving students, parents and stakeholders for undue gain.
