MUMBAI, Sept. 24 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned how charges could have been framed against former Maharashtra minister and senior NCP leader Nawab Malik in the money laundering case registered against him for allegedly usurping a Rs.300-crore prime plot in Kurla in connivance with Haseena Parkar, the late sister of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar. A single-judge bench of Justice Milind Jadhav questioned the basis of charges framed against him, after noting that his application seeking documents seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), but not relied upon in the prosecution, was still pending before the trial court. Malik was arrested by the ED in 2022 in connection with a money-laundering case registered by it on February 14. The money-laundering case in turn was based on an FIR registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Delhi on February 3, 2022, against fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar and some of his close associates. The ED has accused Malik of "indirectly funding the D-gang's activities by usurping a prime piece of land in Kurla with the help of Dawood's deceased sister, Haseena Parkar, by using a fabricated power of attorney. In its chargesheet, the agency claimed that the former Maharashtra minister had paid only Rs.20 lakh to acquire the property in Goawala Compound in Kurla, in a deal dating back to September 2005, and paid the amount to people other than the owner of the three-acre compound, Munira Plumber. The ED claimed that Malik and Parkar connived to usurp the land using a fabricated power of attorney after the death of the owner, Munira Plumber's father Fazalabbas Goawala, following which "nobody was looking after the said property". Before the order was passed, Malik had urged the court to direct the central agency to provide a true, complete and comprehensive list of un-relied documents which were in its possession. The trial court, however, rejected Malik's application and went ahead with framing the charges against him and others on November 18, 2025, prompting the former minister to approach the high court. In a petition filed through advocate Kushal Mor, he challenged the PMLA court order, contending that the trial court failed to consider that the documents suppressed by the ED are vital for his defence and should have been considered before charges were framed against him. The court has posted the matter for further hearing on October 8....