Supreme Court Agrees To Grant Urgent Listing For Nawab Malik's Plea Against ED Arrest
Live LawThe Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to grant urgent listing to the petition filed by Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal requested the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana to grant urgent listing for the petition. The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to grant urgent listing to the petition filed by Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Malik has filed the Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court's order of March 15, 2022, refusing interim release in a habeas corpus petition filed on the ground that his arrest was "completely illegal". "The High Court also already having taken a prima facie view that debatable issues arose, could not have then gone on to take a contrary prima facie view on Section 3 of PMLA, without any reasoning as to how in the present case, there was any predicate offence, let alone any offence under PMLA with regard to the Petitioner."