Nawab Malik's counter-attack: Recovery in Maharashtra at the behest of Fadnavis, also connection with counterfeit notes business

- 145.6 million counterfeit notes were seized during a raid on October 8, 2017 and Fadnavis cleared the case: Malik

New delhi date. Wednesday, November 10, 2021

The heated politics in Maharashtra over the cruise drugs case is not going away. Nawab Malik on Wednesday leveled serious allegations against Devendra Fadnavis. Nawab Malik said that with the 'blessing' of Devendra Fadnavis, the business of recovery and counterfeit notes was going on in Maharashtra. Nawab Malik also mentioned Samir Wankhede. He said that the former CM was trying to save the officer (Wankhede) because he was a man close to him.

The Maharashtra minister said that Devendra, as the chief minister, had given place to people associated with the underworld, criminals to government commissions, boards. Malik said a man named Munna Yadav, a gangster from Nagpur, has been booked in all sorts of cases ranging from murder. You made him chairman of the construction board.

Malik further said that a leader named Haider Azam was appointed by Fadnavis as the chairman of the finance corporation. While he works to resettle the people of Bangladesh in Mumbai. His second wife is a Bangladeshi who was being investigated by the Malad police. It is said that while the police were investigating, a phone call was received from the Chief Minister's Office and the case was suppressed.

Nawab Malik alleged that the recovery was taking place in Maharashtra at the behest of Devendra. Whether it was a matter of builders or quarrels, everything was recovered. If the underworld got a call from abroad, the police would also drop the case.

Connection with counterfeit notes business

Malik said that when the banknotes were banned on November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Modi said that the banknotes were being banned to end terrorism, counterfeit notes and black money. Counterfeit notes were then seized from across the country. But not a single case of counterfeit notes was reported from Maharashtra till October 8, 2017, as the game of counterfeit notes was going on under the protection of Fadnavis. During a raid on October 8, 2017, 145.6 million counterfeit notes were seized and Fadnavis cleared the case. Imran Alam Sheikh and Riaz Sheikh were arrested in the case but later the case was suppressed considering the confiscation to be Rs 8 lakh 80 thousand.