Baba Siddiqui was murdered.
Maharashtra Assembly elections will be announced soon. Earlier, the murder of NCP leader and former minister Baba Siddiqui on Saturday created a political stir. Recently, Baba Siddiqui left the Congress and joined the NCP (Ajit Pawar) faction. In this context, the question arises whether Baba Siddiqui was murdered due to political rivalry. Mumbai’s Kilo court on Sunday sent one of the two gunmen in the Baba Siddiqui murder case to police custody till October 21 and ordered an autopsy of the other who claimed he was a minor.
Let us tell you that at around 9:30 pm on Saturday, criminals fired bullets at Babasi Dicky in Nirmal Nagar area of Bandra East. He was immediately rushed to Lilavati Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
While seeking the remand of Dharamraj Kashyap, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, and Gurmail Singh, a resident of Haryana, police told the court that due to Maharaj As parliamentary elections in Strabane approach, police hope to investigate whether the murder was the result of political rivalry.
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Police told the court that 28 live bullets were recovered from the accused. In this case, a custodial interrogation is required to obtain information about the entire incident and to prevent any further incidents from occurring. Police said ten teams have been set up to investigate the case and two of them are still wanted.
The court remanded Singh to police custody till October 21 while ordering a skeletal test to ascertain Kashyap’s age. The court directed the police to summon Kashyap again after the trial, after which it will be decided whether proceedings against him will be held in a regular court or a juvenile court. At the beginning of the remand application hearing, Kashyap told the court that he was 17 years old and therefore a minor.
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However, the police told the court that the Aadhaar card recovered from their possession showed his age as 21. Police also said they had not seized any other documents proving Kashyap’s age.
Thereafter, the court stopped the proceedings and asked the prosecution to produce the relevant Aadhaar card. Police showed a photo of the card taken from an officer’s cell phone. The court asked the defense to confirm whether the information provided on the Aadhaar card was correct. Defense attorneys said that information was correct.
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The police said they were seeking a 14-day remand for the two accused, who had stayed in Mumbai and Pune for several days before the shooting and needed to find out who funded them.
Police told the court it was necessary to investigate how the pair obtained the weapons and vehicles used in the crimes and who gave them shooting training. Prosecutors said the man killed was not an ordinary person but a former security minister, but they managed to shoot him.
Police told the court it was a sensitive crime and with parliamentary elections coming up it was necessary to investigate whether there was any political rivalry involved. The police also stated that it is necessary to investigate whether there are international connections in the case.
