Mumbai:
Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik on Saturday claimed that an FIR will be lodged against a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader next week and he will be arrested.
His remarks come after former MP Kirit Somaiya leveled fraud allegations against him in the Pune Waqf land case.
“The defamation of the Maharashtra government by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) needs to be stopped. Kirit Somaiya has leveled cheating allegations against me in the Waqf Board land case. I want to apprise him that next week an FIR has been filed against a BJP leader. and she will be arrested,” said Mr. Malik.
Stating that the defamation of the Maharashtra government by the ED needs to be stopped, the NCP leader said the agency officials keep telling the media that they will raid his house.
“ED officials are telling media that they will raid my house. Today Kirit Somaiya said that ED will visit my house in Waqf Board land case. Instead of this whisper campaign, they can directly ask me to appear. , I will do that.” she added.
On Friday, Malik said that some “government guests” were going to meet him soon.
The NCP leader tweeted in Hindi, “Friends, I have heard that government guests will come to my house today or tomorrow, I welcome them.”
Last month, the Maharashtra minister had claimed that some people were trying to implicate him in a false case like he did with former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh.
Anil Deshmukh was arrested by the ED earlier this month for his alleged role in a money laundering case and is currently in jail in judicial custody.
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