The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday temporarily halted the demolition of a residence in Mhow linked to Al Falah University chairman Jawad Siddiqui, granting a 15-day interim stay.

Justice Pranay Verma perused the demolition notice to remark that the earlier notices were issued to the petitioner in 1996-1997.

“If any action was to be taken against the petitioner after a period of almost 30 years from the date of issuance of previous notice, he ought to have been afforded an opportunity of hearing,” the court said.

The latest demolition notice coincided with renewed scrutiny of the Siddiqui family amid a multi-state fraud probe, which was refreshed after at least two doctors employed by Al Falah Medical College in Haryana’s Faridabad were allegedly linked to a terror module that i

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