Al-Falah University in Faridabad abruptly pulled down its website on November 13 after the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) issued a stinging show-cause notice accusing the institution of falsely projecting itself as NAAC Grade A–certified.

The notice, sent to the university’s Registrar, states that two constituent colleges — the Al-Falah School of Engineering and Technology and the Al-Falah School of Education and Training — were accredited with Grade A in 2013 and 2011, respectively.

Those ratings, NAAC underlined, lapsed in 2018 and 2016. Neither college applied for the mandatory Cycle-2 reassessment, yet the university continued to advertise the outdated grades on its website.

Calling the display of expired accreditation “absolutely wrong and misleading the public, especially parents, students and stakeholders”, the NAAC said the university must explain why punitive action should not follow — including disqualification from future accreditation cycles and loss of recognition by statutory bodies such as the UGC, National Medical Council, NCTE and AICTE.

The action comes days after investigators identified the man killed in the car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10 as a junior doctor from Al-Falah University.

Two other doctors from the institution have since been arrested, though the university has publicly distanced itself from the alleged “Faridabad terror module”.

The NAAC has given the university seven days to respond. Until then, it has directed Al-Falah University to immediately correct its public claims and formally report compliance.