Students at Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad’s Dhauj say they hardly knew Dr Muzammil Ganai, a junior resident in the emergency wing, arrested for alleged links to “interstate and transnational terror module.”
Most MBBS students, confiding to a national daily, said they never interacted with him. They said the doctor never came to teach them and that they only heard his name after news of his arrest broke.
Two doctors allegedly linked to the case, Dr Shaheen Ansari and Dr Umar Nabi, were also not well known on campus, they revealed.
Students are now worried about job prospects, perhaps wondering how they will complete their degree courses and who would hire them.
Another third-year student told the national newspaper that he saw Dr. Umar about ten days ago when he came to teach a class. The student described him as an average teacher who mostly kept to himself. He added that Dr Muzammil rarely took classes, though Dr Shaheen often did.
He said Dr Shaheen was the MD in Pharmacology and that he had attended both her and Dr. Umar’s lectures but never saw the three together.
He also mentioned that Dr Umar stayed in the same hostel, which had about 500 double-occupancy rooms. Around 150 teachers lived there, he said, and the police had checked all rooms, including Dr Umar’s, after the arrests.
The student said he was anxious about his future, adding that there were no famous doctors from the hospital and that the arrests had made things worse. He said he had paid Rs 1 crore for the five-year course, while hostel rent was Rs 3 lakh per year.
A senior doctor at the college said many Kashmiri doctors practised there. He said interns who had worked with Dr. Umar found him quiet but very intelligent and professional, adding that D. Umar had also been selected for higher studies.
Students said classes and exams at the institute were continuing as usual. One of them remarked that the college never stopped for anything.
Since 2014, Al Falah University has been run by the Al Falah Charitable Trust. The current vice-chancellor, Dr Bhupinder Kaur Anand, also serves as the principal of the medical college.
Al Falah University runs five MBBS batches daily, each with 150 to 200 students. Established as a dispensary in 1997, the institution began BTech courses in 2003 and started undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in 2014 after being upgraded to a university.
MBBS classes began in 2019, and postgraduate medical courses were introduced two years ago. The university holds an ‘A’ grade accreditation from NAAC.
Despite repeated calls and messages, neither the university nor the medical college could be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, at a rented accommodation near the university, the property owner, Haji Madrasi, said he was deeply disturbed by the incident. He said Dr Muzammil had rented a room at his Fatehpur Road property for Rs 2,400 advance on September 13.
Madrasi said he had not gone for police verification since most of his tenants were short-term and from outside the area. He said the doctor had only given a paper with his name, contact number, and hospital, which police later seized.
Additionally, he revealed that three days before the arrest, two Kashmiri men came claiming they would collect Dr Muzammil’s belongings. After confirming the request with the doctor over a call, Madrasi allowed them access. He said they broke the lock and took some items. The report added that the next day, around 20 to 30 Kashmiri policemen came and took more materials from the flat.
As investigations continue, a thick cloud of suspense hangs heavy over the university, now in the news for everything but academics.
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