Keeping his promise of "a post-Diwali blast", Bharatiya Janata Party leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis made a shocking expose of how Nationalist Congress Party Minister Nawab Malik allegedly entered into a "land deal" at throwaway prices with two henchmen of fugitive mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar.

Releasing documents of the 16-year-old deal before the media, Fadnavis said that a company connected with Malik, Solidus Investments Pvt Ltd (SIPL), completed the land transaction in Kurla with M Salim Ishaq Patel and Sardar Shahvali Khan, both close aides of Dawood and the latter a convict sentenced to life imprisonment in the March 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts.