Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan has sent a legal notice to former state chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis for "defamatory and false allegations against him" and demanded Rs 5 crore in damages "on account of mental torture, agony and financial loss".
Khan had been arrested in January this year in a drugs-related case but was granted bail on 27 September, citing lack of evidence after eight and a half months.
Malik had then launched a scathing attack on the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in October, accusing the drug agency of implicating his son-in-law in a fake drugs case.