Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Ashish Shelar  launched a blistering attack on Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik over alleged land deals with 1993 serial blasts’ convicts and urged Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to take action against him.

During a press conference, Ashish Shelar said the rate of the property was supposedly Rs 2,000 sq ft but it was bought for only Rs 25 per sq ft.

“The property deal was done in 2005 with one of the prime accused in 1993 Mumbai blasts case who was later convicted for the crime. It was a conspiracy to bury an underworld property and get it under their own name,” he added.

The BJP leader went on to say that no Mumbaikar will accept such a fraudulent deal and if any tenant could purchase a property for only 25 per cent of its value then why isn’t every tenant living in Mumbai getting the same benefit.

He then requested the Chief Minister of Maharashtra to take cognisance of this issue and file an FIR to enquire all the proceedings.

Shelar concluded the press conference saying, “This is just the beginning. We will uncover many such hidden truths in the upcoming days.”

Earlier in the day, Leader of Opposition and former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis alleged that a company of Nawab Malik and his family members had purchased land in suburban Kurla at a very cheap rate through fictitious documents from two convicts of the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

He also alleged that Malik and his family members had entered into land deals with people associated with the underworld.

Nawab Malik, on the other hand, has denied the allegations saying he did not buy any property from anyone who is linked to the underworld or is a convict in a bomb blast case.

The Maharashtra minister said by trying to link him with the underworld and bomb blast convicts, Fadnavis is maligning his image.