Nawab Malik has underworld links: Devendra Fadnavis

New Delhi, 9 November (H.S): Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has accused Maharashtra’s Minorities Minister Nawab Malik of buying three acres of valuable land in Kurla from the accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts at a very low price. Devendra Fadnavis said that he will send a complaint about this matter to the concerned department and to the President of the Nationalist Congress Party.

Fadnavis said that Sardar Shahwali Khan is serving life imprisonment as an accused in the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai. In the same case, the driver of the absconding accused Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar, Salim Patel, was arrested under TADA. The three acres of land located on LBS Marg, Kurla, had been bought by the Minister Nawab Malik’s family from these two in 2005 for just Rs 30 lakh, whereas the actual cost of this land was Rs 3 crore. Nawab Malik has given only 20 lakh rupees in this deal. Minister Nawab Malik has been the operator of this company and the deal had been done with Faraj Malik, brother of Nawab Malik. Five similar properties had been bought by Nawab Malik’s company from the people of the underworld.

Devendra Fadnavis said that the property of bomb blast accused and TADA accused is usually confiscated by the government but this land purchase deal was done by the family company of minister Nawab Malik to benefit the underworld. He said that he iis going to demand an inquiry into this matter by giving information about this matter to the concerned department. Along with this, he will also give all the information about the matter to Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar, so that he can know what kind of exploits his ministers are involved in. Devendra Fadnavis said that he has no personal enmity with Nawab Malik, but giving benefit to the people who shed the blood of Mumbai people by blasting bombs is not only like playing with the security of the people of the country.