Ajit Pawar, Jayant Patil join protest by MVA parties against Nawab Malik’s arrest

Thursday, 24 February 2022newsdesk

Ministers and legislators of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra commenced a protest near the Mantralaya on Thursday against the arrest of minister Nawab Malik, who spent the night in ED office after the central agency obtained his custody in a money laundering case.

New Delhi, 24 February 2022

As per news report of The Indian Express, from February 25 onwards, workers of all three MVA parties will hold morchas in the state. Malik was arrested on Wednesday after being questioned for about five hours at the Enforcement Directorate and later produced before special judge R N Rokade, who remanded him in the ED custody till March 3. The agency said the money laundering probe was linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides. Malik was produced in a special PMLA court where it claimed the NCP leader was “actively” involved in “terror funding”.

Source - The Indian Express