SC agrees to record for listening to Nawab Malik’s plea looking for launch from jail
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to think about itemizing for listening to Maharashtra minister and NCP chief Nawab Malik’s plea looking for speedy launch from jail in a cash laundering case.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana requested senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, showing for the jailed chief who sought pressing itemizing of his plea, to supply paperwork.
“Please give the papers,” mentioned the bench, which additionally comprised Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli.
The Prevention of Money Laundering Act got here into being in 2005 and the minister has been accused underneath the statute for the alleged offences dedicated previous to 2000, Sibal mentioned.
Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate over a property deal allegedly linked to the aides of gangster Dawood Ibrahim.
Soon after his arrest, the minister had filed a habeas corpus plea within the excessive courtroom, difficult his arrest and the remand orders.
