Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis has alleged that the minority affairs minister Nawab Malik has links with the underworld. He produced documents on Tuesday to claim that the minister’s company has bought three acres of prime land in Kurla at a throwaway price from two persons including a 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict and a frontman of underworld don.

Addressing a media conference at the BJP state office, Fadnavis said one of the sellers, Sardar Shavali Khan, has been serving a life sentence in the Mumbai serial blasts case, while the other, Mohammed Salim Ishaq Patel, alias Salim Patel, was an aide of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parker, who used him as a front to grab properties.