Former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik has moved the Bombay High Court seeking bail in a money laundering case linked to a land deal in which fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides were involved.
Mr Malik's plea, filed through advocates Taraq Sayed and Kushal Mor, was on Monday mentioned before a single bench of Justice M S Karnik.
The High Court posted the matter for hearing on Tuesday.
The 62-year-old politician approached the High Court after a special court here rejected his bail plea on November 30.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Mr Malik, a senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, in February this year.
He is in judicial custody and currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Mumbai.
Prima facie, there was evidence to indicate a "conspiracy" between Hasina Parkar (Ibrahim's sister), Salim Patel (alleged associate of Ibrahim) and Mr Malik to grab the land owned by Munira Plumber and her mother Mariyum Goawala, special judge R N Rokade, had said while denying bail to Malik.
The special court had also noted the former Maharashtra minister "is in continuous possession of tainted property" through a firm, owned by his family.
The ED's case against Mr Malik is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Dawood Ibrahim, a designated global terrorist and key 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts accused, and his aides under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
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