MUMBAI: A special court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case. Malik has been in jail since his arrest in February this year.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had alleged that Malik had illegally occupied "Kurla General Store" in Goawala buildings compound at Kurla West in 1996, and after becoming a state minister a few years later, he usurped entire premises with the help of Haseena Parkar, late sister of gangster Dawood Ibrahim.