The requests of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former minister Anil Deshmukh for a day’s release to vote in the Rajya Sabha elections on Friday were denied by a special court on Thursday. Senior NCP leaders Deshmukh and Malik are both in jail right now because of different money laundering cases that are being looked … Read more
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra has decided to distribute the portfolios held by party leader and cabinet minister Nawab Malik, currently in custody in a money laundering case, to other ministers of the party, a senior leader has said. With this decision, Malik will be left with no portfolio in the Shiv Sena-led … Read more
The budget session of the Maharashtra assembly which begins on Thursday promises to be a stormy one, with the Bharatiya Janata Party vowing not to allow the assembly to function if skill development minister Nawab Malik does not resign. “Instead of asking for his resignation, the Maha Vikas Aghadi has supported Nawab Malik who has … Read more
Maharashtra BJP on Saturday continued to target the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in the state over the arrest of its minister Nawab Malik, and sought to know why Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was not asking him to step down. Talking to reporters in Pune, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil said that in the past, … Read more
Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders are of the opinion that skill development minister Nawab Malik should not resign as the entire case against him was ‘fabricated’ and ‘followed a pattern’ of cases against opposition party leaders across the country by central agencies. NCP leaders held a meeting with party chief Sharad Pawar, where they said that … Read more
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee spoke to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and expressed support after the arrest of Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik in connection with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim money laundering case. Earlier in the day, the Enforcement Directorate arrested NCP leader Malik in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to … Read more
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday sought 14-day custody of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik in connection with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim money laundering case. He was arrested today by Enforcement Directorate. According to sources, Malik was not cooperating during the questioning. Soon after his arrest, the leader said that he … Read more
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Friday said the NCB has asked the state police’s Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) to transfer its “top five cases” to the central agency, and questioned the Union government’s intentions. The Narcotics Control Bureau‘s (NCB) letter to the ANC attributed the decision to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, he claimed in … Read more
Maharashtra NCP minister Nawab Malik on Monday claimed that Narcotics Control Bureau’s zonal director Sameer Wankhede used forged documents including his birth certificate. Malik tweeted a photo of the purported certificate, saying “Sameer Dawood Wankhede ka yahan se shuru hua furjiwada. (Sameer Dawood Wankhede’s document forging started from here).” Wankhede, an IRS officer of the … Read more
MUMBAI: Taking a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over barricades and roadblocks being set up at the sites of the farmer agitation at Delhi’s borders, the NCP on Tuesday asked whether he was planning to start a “war” with the peasants of the country. Maharashtra Minister and NCP’s national spokesperson Nawab Malik also said … Read more