During the hearing of Nawab Malik’s bail request, the legal team for the former Maharastra cabinet minister and NCP leader cited significant information gained through a Right to Information (RTI) request to refute a crucial Enforcement Directorate (ED) assertion in the 3 acre Goawala compound case.
According to the ED, Malik purchased a property from Salim Patel, a go-between for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar. Then he had this courted and gave money to the underworld.
The fact that Patel had a fake Power of Attorney (POA) from the landowner, Munira Plumber, was the key piece of evidence on which the ED was relying.
The 3 acre Goawala property in Kurla had encroachments, according to the agency Plumber, and Plumber had handed a POA to Patel along with some cash to eliminate the encroachments.
Malik claimed that Patel had provided him with a POA that Plumber had signed approving the sale of the Kurla property. Plumber told the ED that she had never granted a POA to sell the property and thus the ED stated that it was a forged document.
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