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In the latest development in Baba Siddique murder case, a holiday court on Sunday remanded two shooters to police custody until October 21.
The 65-year-old politician was shot dead outside his son Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Bandra East by three assailants. The suspects, Gurmail Singh from Haryana and Dharmaraj Kashyap from Uttar Pradesh were nabbed by the police in connection with the case.
Mumbai police earlier today presented these two accused in Mumbai’s Esplanade Court. Esplanade court has also directed to present the second accused again after conducting his ossification test -a medical procedure that estimates a person’s age by analysing the degree of fusion of their bones for determining age.
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