ED Attaches Properties of Jailed Maha Min Nawab Malik in Money Laundering Case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider hearing Malik's plea for his immediate release from prison.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday, 13 April, that it had attached several properties of jailed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik in the case against him related to alleged money laundering.

The ED put out a statement mentioning that it had attached multiple assets of "Mohammed Nawab Mohammed Islam Malik alias Nawab Malik, his family members, Solidus Investments Pvt. Ltd. and Malik Infrastructure under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)," news agency PTI reported.

The attached assets include a compound in Goawala, a financial unit in Mumbai's Kurla (West), agricultural land spread across almost 148 acres in the state's Osmanabad district, three flats in Kurla (West) and two in Bandra (West).