Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, April 22: The Supreme Court denied Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s request to be released from prison in a money laundering case on Friday.
“It is too nascent a stage to interfere with the investigation. We can’t interfere with the due process at this stage. You move the competent court,” the top court said in its remarks.
Notably, in February 23 the 62-year-old NCP leader was detained in a case involving Dawood Ibrahim, the mastermind of the 1993 Mumbai bombings. The minister’s bid to be released from jail has previously been denied by the Bombay High Court.
In an attack on the BJP, Maharashtra’s ruling Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition has claimed that the NCP leader’s detention in the central inquiry agency investigation was politics of vendetta.
