Indore: The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has temporarily stayed the Mhow Cantonment Board’s notice to remove “unauthorised construction” at the ancestral house of Jawad Ahmed Siddiqui, the chancellor of Al-Falah University, which is at the focus of the Delhi blast probe.

The high court passed the interim order on Thursday and disposed of the petition filed by a resident of the house who challenged the Board’s notice.

Siddiqui was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on November 18 after the agency conducted searches against the group, linked persons and the Faridabad-based university.

The Board issued a notice on November 19, stating the “unauthorised construction” must be removed within three days, failing which it would remove it under the relevant legal provisi

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