Nawab Malik cracks deals with Bombay blasts convicts-Fadnavis

BJP leader and former Maharashtra  chief minister Devendra Fadnvis has allaeged that NCP minister Nawab Malik was  engaged in dubious property deals with two Bombay blast convicts. Talking to newsmen on Tuesday in Mumbai Fadnavis accused minister Malik and his family of purchasing a 2.80 acre plot from Mohammad Salim Patel, a "front man" of Dawood Ibrahim's sister Haseena Parker, and from Badshah Khan, a 1993 blast convict, in 2005. Fadnavis said that the deal for the property was made for Rs 25 per square foot and was actually bought at the rate of Rs 15 per square foot. Whereas a nearby market plot had been transacted at Rs 2053/sqft. He claimed that one of the signatories of the deal was Faraz Malik, a relative of Nawab Malik.Tthe former chief minister said he had documents of five such property deals and would hand over the same to the appropriate authorities. He would also submit the documents to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar to let him know what his party functionaries were indulging in.

Malik did business with people involved in blasts that shook Mumbai. He purchased land from convicts of the case at rates cheaper than market prices. Was this deal to save prime land from being forfeited under TADA law?, The BJP leader said. Fadnavis said a prime plot on LBS Road in Kurla was bought at a meagre sum of Rs 30 lakh when the market rate was Rs 2,053 per square feet in 2005 in the vicinity. "The deal was carried out when Malik was a minister in the previous Congress-NCP government,” he added.