SC Grants Six-Month Extension to Nawab Malik’s Interim Bail

SC Grants Six-Month Extension to Nawab Malik's Interim Bail

VoM News Desk | January 11, 2024 | 12:06 PM IST | Breaking News, Courts & Law | Follow on Google News

SC Grants Six-Month Extension to Nawab Malik’s Interim Bail/ANI

SC Grants Six-Month Extension to Nawab Malik’s Interim Bail

The Supreme Court has extended the interim bail of former Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik for six months on health grounds in a money laundering case. The bench, consisting of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal, granted the extension after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) did not object to the plea.

Additional Solicitor General SV Raju, representing the ED, stated, “It may be extended. They have asked for six months. No objection.” The bench’s order specified, “Temporary medical bail of the petitioner was extended by six months as prayed for. List the main matter after six months.”

Initially granted in August 2023 for two months on medical grounds, Malik’s interim bail was later extended by three months in October. Malik had appealed to the Supreme Court after the Bombay High Court rejected his temporary medical bail plea.

In his plea, Malik cited chronic kidney disease and other ailments as reasons for seeking bail on health grounds. The ED had arrested Malik in February 2022, alleging his involvement in illicitly acquiring a property in Kurla with the assistance of Dawood Ibrahim’s late sister Haseena Parkar between 1999-2006. The ED claimed that funds from these activities were ultimately used for terror funding, as Parkar managed Dawood’s illicit businesses.

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