Javed Ahmed Siddiqui, Founder of Al-Falah University, where several suspects behind Red Fort car blast worked, ran nine firms, all linked to Al-Falah Charitable Trust. Spanning education, software, energy and financial services sectors, many of the companies are now shut. Siddiqui was jailed in early 2000s in a ₹7.5-crore fraud case for falsely persuading people into investing in his companies.