Today, Supreme Court adjourned the hearing in a petition filed by former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, who has been in jail since February 23, 2022, in a money laundering case.
A division bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Bela M Trivedi, and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing a special leave petition filed by Malik challenging the previous orders of the Bombay High Court adjourning his medical bail application to June 6. Yesterday, the Bombay High Court refused to grant the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader interim bail on medical grounds and directed the matter to be listed after two weeks to be heard on its merits.
Single judge Justice Anuja Prabhudessai, while rejecting the plea, said that she will hear Malik's plea for bail on merits in two weeks.
Malik was arrested on February 23, 2022 by the ED under the provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PMLA) in connection with a probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and his aides.
Malik’s legal representatives, Amit Desai, Taraq Sayad, Kushal Mor, and Rohan Dakshini, filed the bail application on medical grounds, citing his chronic kidney disease as the reason.
A special court designated to hear cases related to the PMLA had in May last year refused to grant bail to Malik on medical grounds but permitted him to get admitted to a private hospital for treatment.
The 62-year-old politician had approached the high court seeking bail. He has denied the allegations levelled against him by the probe agency.
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