Mumbai

The NCP and the Shiv Sena have attacked the BJP after the Enforcement Directorate went to the house of Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik and brought him to its office Wednesday morning in connection with a money laundering case allegedly linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

Last week, the ED had raided the residence of Dawood Ibrahim's sister Haseena Parkar in Mumbai in connection with the money laundering case.

Searches were carried out by the ED at several places linked to the people associated with the underworld in Mumbai, sources said on Tuesday.

The ED had also conducted searches at 10 different locations related to late Haseena Parkar, sister of Dawood Ibrahim, in Nagpada.

Hours after the ED took Malik to its office, NCP MP Supriya Sule raised questions over the incident saying that the BJP has started a 'new type of politics'  and that Malik's arrest is an insult to the state.

She also asserted that the officials directly took him to the ED office without any notice which is an "insult" to Maharashtra.

"For many days people of BJP were tweeting that ED notice will come against Nawab Malik and Maha Vikas Aghadi. They directly took him to the ED office without any notice. I don't know what new type of politics they have started. It's an insult to Maharashtra," Sule said.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut alleged that the Central government has set ED on the NCP leader because "he has been constantly speaking the truth".

Raut further said that from now on the state government will hand over all the cases against BJP leaders to the ED in order to gauge whether the party leaders will be meted out with similar treatment by the agency.

"Nawab Malik has been constantly speaking the truth and this is the reason why the Central government has set the ED on him. He will be inquired and will come back home in the evening," he said.

"BJP leader Kirit Somaiya gave this to ED. Now onwards, we will hand over all the cases against the BJP leaders to the agency and let us see whether the ED will deal with the case in a similar fashion the way it is doing in cases related against the opposition leaders," Raut said.