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Malik said he did not buy any property from anyone who is linked to the underworld or is a convict in a bomb blast case. He said by trying to link him with the underworld and bomb blast convicts, Fadnavis is maligning his image.
Hours before, Fadnavis had alleged that a company of Nawab Malik and his family members had purchased land in suburban Kurla at a very cheap rate through fictitious documents from two convicts of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
He also alleged that Malik and his family members had entered into land deals with people associated with the underworld.
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“The charges leveled by Devendra Fadnavis are baseless. I never bought any property from anyone linked to the underworld or a blast convict,” Malik told a press conference. He said Fadnavis is “making a mountain of a molehill”.
Fadnavis had said Malik and his family members were part of a company that purchased land in the Kurla area of Mumbai at a very low rate by making some fictitious documents from Sardar Shahwali Khan and Saleem Ishaq Patel, who were convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
Malik said he has been in public life for over 26 years and no one has leveled charges, linking him to the underworld and blast convicts. He said the properties bought by him have been acquired legally after paying stamp duty. “All deals have been done in a very transparent manner,” Malik claimed.
Last week, Fadnavis had claimed that he will burst a “bomb” by exposing Malik’s links with the underworld. Taking a dig, Malik said Fadnavis’ bomb turned out to be a “dud cracker” but he will drop a “hydrogen bomb” on Wednesday morning, exposing how the BJP leader held the city hostage when he was chief minister.