MUMBAI: A special court on Friday took cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet against Nationalist Congress Party’s leader Nawab Malik and said there is prima facie evidence to indicate that Malik was directly and knowingly involved in money laundering and criminal conspiracy with others to usurp Goawala compound in Kurla.
The court has issued a process against him and the 1993 bomb blast case accused Sardar Shahwali Khan, who is also named in the case.
Giving a backgrounder about the said incident, the official order copy mentioned, “An FIR dated February 3, 2022, was registered by NIA under Section 120B of IPC and Sections 17, 18, 20, 21, 38 and 40 of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 against Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and others. On the basis of the aforesaid scheduled offence, Enforcement Directorate registered a case for investigation under PMLA, 2002 against them.”
Earlier, in the said matter, an FIR dated September 18, 2017, was registered at Kasarvadavli Police Station, Thane, against Iqbal Kaskar, Mumtaz Shaikh and Israr Ali Jamil Sayyed for the offence of extortion under Sections 384, 386 and 387 of IPC. Subsequently, Iqbal Kaskar, brother of Dawood Ibrahim, and his associates, were also arrested under MCOCA and other sections. During investigation, it is revealed that Hasina Parkar (deceased) was one of the prominent members of D Company and sister of Dawood Ibrahim, the order read.
The order copy said, “It is alleged that accused Nawab Malik and members of D-Company criminally conspired and had taken unauthorised possession/acquisition of the above property. It appears from the statements that Sardar Khan convicted in the Bombay bomb blast case was also part of the said conspiracy. In lieu of his assistance in usurping the property of Munira Plumber, he got a covered area of around 368 sqmt in Goawala compound and the same was given to him by Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd. For usurping the above property, members of D-Company and accused Nawab Malik, connived together and executed several legal documents to put a facade of genuinity over the criminal act.
“To this end, Nawab Malik and Hasina Parkar entered into a criminal conspiracy and Nawab Malik agreed to pay Rs 55 lakh to Hasina Parkar, Rs 1 lakh to Salim Patel and Rs 5 lakh to Sardar Khan. Initially, Nawab Malik occupied Kurla General Store illegally using his clout and muscle power. He misguided the owner and took over the shed in Goawala Compound for acquiring M/s Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd.”
After the allegations were levelled against the accused, and on perusal of various documents placed on record, it appeared to the court that there are sufficient grounds for proceeding further with this case. “I am of the opinion that process is required to be issued in this case against the accused arrayed in this complaint,” Special Judge RN Rokade said. (ANI)