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Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik was produced before a special court after the Enforcement Directorate arrested him in a money laundering case probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, his aides and the Mumbai underworld.
In the morning, Malik was taken to the ED’s office in south Mumbai for questioning and he was later arrested. The court remanded Malik, a senior NCP leader, in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate till March 3
The 62-year-old NCP leader was taken to the state-run J J Hospital in the afternoon for a medical check-up after which he was taken to the sessions court.
Malik, clad in a white kurta, was brought to the courtroom of Special Judge R N Rokade, designated to hear matters related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), at 4.50 pm and was made to stand in the witness box.
When the judge asked him if he had any grievances, Malik said the ED officials came to his house in the morning and took him to their office.
“Prima facie, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the accusations are well-founded under PMLA,”the judge observed. The court held that the probe was at a nascent stage and Malik’s custodial interrogation is necessary to unearth all the ramifications involved in the crime.
