New Delhi, May 16 :There is no relief for senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, and former Maharashtra Minister, Nawab Malik, as the Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear his plea for urgent hearing into his bail plea, and it fixed for hearing in July second week in connection with his alleged involvement in money laundering case.
The Apex Court bench asked the accused, Malik to approach the Bombay High Court for relief or earlier hearing in the case.
Malik had moved the Supreme Court challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2005.
The probe agency, ED, had arrested the former state minister on February 24 last year in a probe connected to a money laundering case over an alleged land deal concerning an aide of global terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. He has been under custody and has been lodged at Arthur Road Jail since then.
Special Court in Mumbai November last year, had also rejected the bail petition of the senior NCP leader and former Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case of 1999 linked to the activities of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Malik, in his petition, before the Supreme Court claimed that there is no evidence of money laundering allegations against him, while the central agency argued he is not innocent.
The ED had filed a chargesheet against Malik in connection with the probe into the money transactions over his land deal with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister, Haseena Parkar, through her driver Salim Patel.(UNI)