"Already Spent 16 Days In Jail": Maharashtra Minister's Appeal For Release
NDTV
Nawab Malik's counsel said, "The police authorities, on fanciful grounds, cannot disgrace any disliked face under the cloud of his or her involvement in an offence of organised crime."
Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate last month, appealed to the Bombay High Court on Wednesday to pass an interim order providing for his release from custody.
"The police authorities, on fanciful grounds, cannot disgrace any disliked face under the cloud of his or her involvement in an offence of organised crime. This is my submission," Mr Malik's counsel Amit Desai said in the court.
He told a bench led by Justice P B Varale that the minister had brought the property in question (which is part of ED's probe) in a bonafide transaction over two decades ago.
But, Mr Malik was now suffering because the property's original owner, Munira Plumber, had changed her mind about having granted the power of attorney for sale of the property, Mr Desai told the High Court.
