Mumbai: Amid the ongoing slugfest between Maharashtra government and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) over Mumbai's high-profile drugs-on-cruise case, state's Minorities Affairs Minister Nawab Malik on Saturday claimed a conspiracy is underway to frame him in an 'Anil Deshmukh-style fake case', allegedly at the 'behest' of some officials in central agencies.
However, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader did not name the officials. The former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was arrest in a money laundering case.
Speaking to reporters earlier in the day, Malik also made a startling claim that he has acquired some e-mails and WhatsApp chats of officers of Central probe agencies 'instigating' people to lodge false complaints against him.
The minister also said that he is going to lodge a complaint with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Mumbai Police for a thorough probe.
"I have all the evidence with full details of the conspirators... I am going to lodge a complaint with Mumbai Police Commissioner and also Union Home Minister Amit Shah for a thorough probe and necessary action," Malik asserted.
The Maharashtra minister, who launched a crusade against NCB Bureau Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede in the drug bust case, also alleged that ever since his expose on Wankhede and the 'farzi' (fraudulent) rave party raid on the Cordelia Cruise on October 2, he and his family are being 'shadowed' by some suspicious unknown persons.
"They are making inquiries about my family, my grandchildren, my own movements, clicking pictures of my home and offices... Last week, when I traveled abroad (Dubai), they had come again, but were given a hot chase by some people in my locality as they took unauthorised photos of my home," news agency IANS quoted Malik as saying.
On Friday, Malik tweeted photos of two men whom he alleged were doing a 'recce' on him.
He, however, reiterated that he would not be cowed down by any Central agency's officers "attempting to entrap him in a sham matter", and vowed to continue his ongoing campaign on various fronts.
Over the last few weeks, Malik has been running a campaign targeting the Wankhede on multiple counts including "fake raid" on the cruise ship, targeting high-profile personalities to derive maximum publicity, extortion demand from Shah Rukh Khan to release his son Aryan Khan in drugs bust case and others.