Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik was arrested today in connection with a money laundering case linked to the fugitive terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. The arrest comes after his clash with Sameer Wankhede, the officer in charge of the drugs-on-cruise case.
Here are five things to know about Nawab Malik:
Maharashtra's cabinet minister in charge of minority development, Nawab Malik is also the spokesperson of the Nationalist Congress Party and is known to be close to be its chief Sharad Pawar.
A five-time MLA from Mumbai's Anushakti Nagar, Mr Malik is one of the few Muslim faces in the NCP, which is largely seen as a Maratha-centric party.
Mr Malik started his political career with the Congress but quit to join the Samajwadi Party. In 2001, he was expelled, after which he joined the Nationalist Congress Party.
A part of then Congress-NCP government, Nawab Malik resigned as a minister in 2005 after the Justice PB Sawant Commission, which was probing the allegations of social activist Anna Hazare, indicted him in a corruption case.
After the arrest of megastar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan in the drugs-on-cruise case in October, Nawab Malik's frequent controversial allegations against Sameer Wankhede made him a household name. Led by Mr Wankhede, the Narcotics Control Bureau had arrested Mr Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan in a drugs case in January 2021.
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