Delhi blast: NIA recovers Rs 18 lakh, gold from Dr Shaheen’s varsity hostel room

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recovered Rs 18.5 lakh, gold biscuits (300 grams) and foreign currency from room no. 32 of a hostel at Al-Falah University. The room is linked to Dr Shaheen Shahid, who was arrested for her involvement in the November 10 Delhi blast.

Investigation revealed that Dr Shaheen, a former doctor at Al-Falah University, had lived in Saudi Arabia for four years. From 2014 to 2018, she worked as a professor at a medical college in Saudi Arabia. She came back to India in 2018 and stayed at home till 2021.

Sources said Dr Shaheen had come into contact with a terror organisation after returning from Saudi Arabia. She became involved in terror activities and began expanding her network between 2018 and 2021. At present, she was the commander of the women’s wing of Jaish-e-Mohammed.

In 2021, Dr Shaheen secured a professorship at Al-Falah University and established contacts with other doctors within the “white-collar” terror module, said sources, adding that she became close to Dr Muzammil Shakeel and the duo married to expand their network.

The money and foreign currency was stashed in a digital locker. Sources said the NIA team also found several suspicious documents from the locker.

As the team had no idea that such a large amount of cash could be found in the hostel, the currency was counted manually and gold was weighed on a digital machine in front of the Duty Magistrate.