Malik: Can still comment on misuse of central agencies

The Bombay high court on Friday accepted state minister Nawab Malik’s apology in his affidavit tendered through his senior counsel Aspi Chinoy, for making public remarks against Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede and his family despite his earlier undertaking to refrain from comments till the court’s interim orders..

- Swati Deshpande

Malik said none of the three statements cited as his breach were press statements issued by him, but were “responses in course of interviews with journalists…to specific questions”. “I have since been advised that the undertaking would cover any responses to specific questions too and in future will not respond to any posed to me,” the minister said, adding that he, however, believes that he can comment on “political misuse of central agencies and the conduct of their officers in course of their duties”.