A special court in Mumbai remanded Maharashtra minority affairs minister Nawab Malik to 14-day judicial custody till March 21, in a money-laundering probe linked to gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on February 23 arrested Malik after he was being questioned for about five hours at the probe agency’s office in South Mumbai.
His arrest came after ED raided premises of people linked to Ibrahim, including his late sister Haseena Parkar, with whom the 62-year-old cabinet minister had allegedly had transactions related to a property during the last two decades.
On Monday, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader was produced before special judge R. N. Rokade at the end of his ED remand.
A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court sent him to judicial custody as no further remand was sought by the probe agency.
The ED’s case is based on a recent FIR filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against fugitive Dawood Ibrahim and others under sections of the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
