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  • IPL 2021: Permission has been given for Mumbai matches, says Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik

    By ANI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik on Monday confirmed that the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches would be going ahead in Mumbai as planned and there would be no hurdles.

    His confirmation comes a day after it was announced that Maharashtra would be entering weekend lockdown from Friday 8 pm to Monday 7 pm to curb the spread of Covid-19.

    “The permission has been given for the matches with restrictions, the crowd would not be allowed to enter the stadiums. Whoever is participating in the IPL, would have to stay at one place in isolation. There can be no overcrowding, we have made this clear and on this basis, we have given the permission,” Malik told ANI.

    “There are many people demanding for vaccination, BCCI has also requested that the players be vaccinated. We also know that there are many people in Maharashtra who are at risk of being exposed to the virus. We also want the age limit to be reduced so that we can vaccinate, but unless the Central Government gives the permission, we cannot do so,” he added.

    On Sunday, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly had also confirmed that everything will go on as per schedule in the 14th edition of the IPL.

    “Everything will go on as per schedule,” Ganguly told ANI.

    Wankhede Stadium is set to host 10 IPL games this season from April 10-25. The first match at the Mumbai stadium is slated to be played on April 10 between Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings.

    Four franchises — Delhi Capitals, Mumbai Indians, Punjab Kings, and Rajasthan Royals have set up their base in Mumbai as of now. The BCCI is also thinking of players’ vaccination ahead of the IPL with BCCI vice president Rajeev Shukla saying that the board will get in touch with the Health Ministry for players’ vaccination.

    “In order to cope with this coronavirus rise, I think the only solution is to get vaccinated. BCCI is also thinking on those lines that players should be vaccinated. Nobody knows when coronavirus is going to end and you can’t give a deadline that by this time frame, it will not be there so players can play easily. So, I think now will have to think over that. Vaccination should be done for the players also,” Shukla told ANI.

    When asked if BCCI has written to the Health Ministry regarding players’ vaccination, Shukla said the BCCI is mulling over the idea and they will definitely get in touch with the ministry that players should be vaccinated.

  • NCP chief Sharad Pawar discharged from hospital, condition stable: Nawab Malik

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who recently underwent a procedure for a gall bladder issue, was discharged from a hospital here on Saturday, a party leader said.

    “Pawar (80) is in good health and is recuperating at home,” said NCP spokesperson and state minister Nawab Malik.

    Earlier in the day, a team of doctors checked Pawar and concluded that his condition was stable.

    Malik said doctors have advised seven-day rest for Pawar.

    “If his health parameters remain stable after the next 15 days, a surgery of his gall bladder will be performed,” he added.

    Pawar underwent an emergency endoscopy for the removal of a stone from his bile duct on March 30 at the Breach Candy Hospital.

    He was admitted to the hospital on March 30 after he experienced abdominal pain.

  • Sharad Pawar in good health, says NCP leader Nawab Malik

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: NCP chief Sharad Pawar who underwent a surgical procedure for the removal of a gall bladder stone two days ago is responding well to the treatment, a party leader said on Thursday.

    He underwent a check-up at 7 pm and is now allowed to walk and take solid food, said Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Twitter.

    Pawar was responding well to the treatment and was in excellent health, said Malik.

    Pawar, 80, was admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital here on Tuesday after he experienced abdominal pain.

    He underwent endoscopy for the removal of a gall bladder stone on the same night.

  • NCP’s Nawab Malik debunks Sharad Pawar-Amit Shah meet speculation, attacks BJP

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister and NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik on Sunday rubbished talk of a meeting between his party chief Sharad Pawar and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

    He further alleged that such talk was the BJP’s way of creating “confusion”.

    “It is a completely false information deliberately pushed by some people to create confusion. It is something that BJP wants to create some confusion. Such a meeting has not taken place. There is no reason that Pawar should meet Shah,” Malik said.

    There has been speculation in political circles that Shah met Pawar and Praful Patel at a top industrialist’s residence in Ahmedabad on Saturday.

    At a press conference in New Delhi on Sunday, Shah parried a query on the purported meeting, saying everything cannot be made public.

  • BJP flags posting ‘racket’, NCP raises phone-tapping issue

    Express News Service
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik claimed on Tuesday that IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, who is currently on central deputation, was shunted out as Commissioner of Intelligence because she was tapping the phones of Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders at the BJP’s behest.

    Malik’s claim followed leader of opposition Devendra Fadnavis’s allegation of large-scale corruption in police transfers and postings. At a press conference, the BJP leader and former CM claimed to have “6.3 GB data” of audio calls intercepted by Shukla with due permissions from the state government. The names of several key police officers, including IPS officers, and politicians were discussed during the calls.

    The report was submitted to CM Uddhav Thackeray in August 2020, but no action was taken, Fadnavis said, and demanded a CBI probe in to the entire affair. Responding to the allegation, Malik alleged that Shukla was acting as a BJP agent and prepared the call records illegally. The minister said Shukla did not seek permission for tapping the phones and hence, indulged in a criminal act and was also leaking information to the Opposition. 

    “As a punishment, the Maharashtra government shifted her from the intelligence department to a less important department civil defence,” Malik said. Shukla is currently deputed as ADG of CRPF. She was not available for comment. Malik alleged that the latest allegation was another ploy by the BJP to topple the MVA government which would fail.

    The BJP could not poach MLAs and that’s why it was using IPS and IAS officers as a pawn to destabilise the state government, he said. Fadnavis later met the Union Home Secretary in Delhi and demanded CBI probe into a state intelligence department report on corruption in police transfers.

  • NCP says Income Tax raids on Anurag Kashyap, Taapsee Pannu ‘a bid to curb voices of dissent’

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Wednesday said the Income Tax raids against Bollywood figures Anurag Kashyap and Taapsee Pannu are an attempt to suppress the voices of those who speak against the Narendra Modi-led government.

    “Central agencies like ED, CBI, and Income Tax are being used to target those who take an anti-government stand and speak against the policies of the regime,” the minister told reporters outside Vidhan Bhavan in south Mumbai.

    “The premises of Anurag Kashyap and Pannu have been raided. Both were raising their voices against the Modi government. This action has been carried out to suppress their voices,” said Malik, who is also the chief spokesperson of Sharad Pawar-led NCP.

    The Income Tax Department on Wednesday raided premises linked to the filmmakers, including Anurag Kashyap, who launched the now dissolved production house Phantom Films, Reliance Entertainment group CEO Shibhashish Sarkar and Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu, officials said.

    The searches were being carried out in over 30 locations in Mumbai and Pune, officials said.

  • BJP’s turn to apologise for Gujarat riots after Congress admits ‘Emergency error’: Nawab Malik

    By ANI
    MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Cabinet minister Nawab Malik on Wednesday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to apologise for the 2002 Gujarat riots following Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s admission that the Emergency imposed in the country during the tenure of his grandmother, the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was wrong.

    “Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accepted that the declaration of the Emergency was wrong. After 45 years of its implementation, Congress has accepted their mistake,” Malik said.

    “Congress has also apologised for the Delhi riots. Now it’s the turn of the BJP to apologise for the Gujarat riots. It takes a large heart to accept the wrongs of the past, to accept that the declaration of ’emergency’ was a mistake. Rahul Gandhi has done it,” he added.

    Congress leader and the party’s former president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Emergency imposed in the country during the tenure of his grandmother the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was wrong.

    On 25 June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had announced a national emergency in view of ‘threats to national security.During the emergency, opposition leaders were arrested, censorship was imposed, and a ban was announced on grassroots organisations which lasted for a period of 21 months

    Over a thousand people were killed during the three-day riots that ensued at several places in Gujarat after around 58 people lost their lives when the S-6 coach of Sabarmati Express was torched at the Godhra Railway Station on February 27, 2002.  

  • Drugs case: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law sent to 14-day judicial custody

    By ANI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was on Monday been sent to 14-day judicial custody in connection with a drug case. Khan who was arrested on January 13 was taken for medical examination before being produced before Esplanade Court here today.

    He was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with a drug case and his remand was supposed to end today. The prosecutor had said that NCB had found evidence from Sameer regarding some chats indicating that he was planning to mix CBD oil and other chemicals with marijuana.

    “We have come to know that there were multiple transactions between Karan and Sameer Khan which was much more than Rs 20,000. He was involved in the commercial activity of drug so we have invoked 27A of the NDPS Act (Punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) act against him,” NCB prosecutor said.

    In a tweet on January 14, Malik said, “Nobody is above the law and it should be applied without any discrimination. Law will take its due course and justice will prevail. I respect and have immense faith in our judiciary.”

  • Drugs probe: NCB searches home of Maharashtra minister’s son-in-law

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Narcotics Control Bureau on Thursday conducted searches at the city-based residence of Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan, who has been arrested in a drugs case, an NCB official said.

    Khan was taken into custody by the NCB on Wednesday over his alleged role in the drugs case in which three persons, including British national Karan Sajnani and three others, were arrested here last week after seizure 200 kg of drugs, an official said.

    A team of the NCB on Thursday conducted searches at Khan’s residence in suburban Bandra. No seizure was made from his house, the official said.

    READ| Nobody above law: Maharashtra minister on kin’s arrest by NCB

    Later, the NCB team also conducted searches in Juhu area, he said, adding that the operation is still on.

    Khan was arrested by the NCB on Wednesday after several hours of questioning.

    He had been summoned by the agency after it found an alleged online transaction of Rs 20,000 between him and one of the accused in the drugs case in which British national Karan Sajnani and two others were arrested last week, sources said.

    The agency on Tuesday arrested Ramkumar Tiwari, one of the owners of the famous ‘Muchhad Paanwala’ shop in Mumbai which is frequented by celebrities, in the same case.

    Tiwari was granted bail by a court here on Wednesday.

    Last week, the NCB arrested three persons, including Sajnani, and claimed to have seized 200 kg of drugs from Khar and Bandra areas here.

    The drugs included ganja, imported contraband like ‘OG Kush’ (a strain of cannabis indica), and curated marijuana, some of which had been sourced from the US, an official earlier said.

  • Nobody above law, says Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik after kin’s arrest by NCB

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik, whose son-in-law has been arrested by the NCB in a drugs case, on Thursday said nobody is above law and it should be applied without any discrimination.

    In a post on Twitter, the NCP leader, without mentioning any incident, said the law will take its due course and justice will prevail.

    Malik’s son-in-law Sameer Khan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) here on Wednesday in a drugs case after he was questioned by the agency.

    Khan was summoned by the NCB after it found an alleged online transaction of Rs 20,000 between him and one of the accused in the drugs case in which British national Karan Sajnani and two others were arrested last week, sources earlier said.

    “Nobody is above the law and it should be applied without any discrimination. Law will take its due course and justice will prevail,” Malik tweeted.

    “I respect and have immense faith in our judiciary,” the minority affairs minister added.