Baba Siddique (66) was shot dead outside his son Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Mumbai’s Neelamnagar area on October 12 by three assailants.
The Mumbai Police on Monday filed a charge sheet in connection with the murder of former Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Baba Siddique.
The Mumbai Police’s crime branch filed the 4,590-page charge sheet in a special Court against 26 arrested accused and three wanted persons, including gangster Anmol Bishnoi, the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. The charge sheet stated that Bishnoi was assassinated to create an atmosphere of fear through his organized crime syndicate.
Other than Bishnoi, the charge sheet also named Mohammed Yasin Akhtar – who is known by aliases Mohammed Jamil, Kehi, and Jessi – and Pune resident Shubham Rameshwar Lonkar as wanted in the murder case.
According to the charge sheet, Anmol Bishnoi, the leader of an organized crime syndicate, planned the conspiracy and executed the murder to implant fear and domination over the crime syndicate and “to establish supremacy in Mumbai.”
The charge sheet also cited closeness to the actor Salman Khan and revenge over the suicide of Anuj Thapan as some of the other reasons for the crime. In forming the charge sheet, the Mumbai Police recorded statements from 210 witnesses.
