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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