Baba Siddique Murder Case: Mumbai Crime Branch Recovered Two Pistols From Both the Accused

Mumbai: Mumbai Crime Branch has recovered two pistols from both the accused in the Baba Siddique murder case. The accused had brought pepper spray; first, the accused were about to spray it on Baba Siddique, and then they were about to fire, but the third accused, Shiv Kumar Gautam, started firing directly. 

Baba Siddique Murder Case Updates

Three constables were with Baba Siddiqui, and at the time of the incident, also three constables were there, but they could not do anything. One more person has been injured in this firing, says the Mumbai Crime Branch.

DCP Crime Branch Datta Nalawade says, "There were three people at the spot of incidence. Two have been caught and one is absconding... 15 teams of the Crime Branch are on the job... The angles of Lawrence Bishnoi, Salman Khan or any other angle is being investigated."

Police produced the alleged assailants, identified as Haryana residence Gurmail Baljit Singh (23) and another man, a Uttar Pradesh native, in the court on Sunday afternoon.

A former Congress veteran Siddique (66), who had joined the Ajit Pawar -led NCP earlier this year, was waylaid by three men at Kher Nagar in Mumbai's Bandra area just outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's office and shot at.

He was taken to the Lilavati Hospital where he was declared dead, police said.

The crime branch, probing the case, sought the remand of the accused duo for 14 days, saying they needed to investigate if there was any international link involved.

The person killed was not any ordinary person, but a former minister. Despite security, the assailants managed to shoot him. We need to find out the intention and motive behind the crime, the prosecution said.

Police need to probe if any political rivalry was involved in the shooting, public prosecutor Gautam Gaikwad told the court.

Advocate Sidharth Agarwal, appearing for both the accused, contended that the crime was " very sad and disheartening", but the role of the accused is not established.

He (Siddique) might have been killed due to a political rivalry and the two accused were falsely implicated in the case, the lawyer argued. 

With Agency Inputs