Shubham Lonkar and his brother Pravin are believed to be key conspirators in Siddique’s homicide.
One of many suspects that the Mumbai Police are on the lookout for within the sensational homicide of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique in Mumbai’s Bandra final week had additionally been questioned after the firing exterior the residence of actor Salman Khan in April, however was let off due to lack of proof.
Police mentioned, of their investigation, Shubham Lonkar is rising as one of many key conspirators within the homicide of Siddique, who was a three-time MLA and a member of the Ajit Pawar faction of the NCP.
Sources mentioned that after the firing exterior Salman Khan’s residence, Galaxy Residences, in Bandra, Lonkar, who’s believed to be a key member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, was one of many individuals who had been picked up for questioning. His identify was allegedly taken by a number of individuals who had been interrogated within the case. The sources mentioned Lonkar was accused of offering shelter to the suspects within the firing case however needed to be let go as a result of no robust proof could possibly be discovered.
Police had instructed EDNBOX earlier that Lonkar and his brother, Pravin, had been two of the important thing conspirators within the Siddique homicide and had enlisted two of the shooters – Dharamraj Kashyap and Shiv Kumar Gautam – within the plot. A word posted on Fb on Sunday wherein the Lawrence Bishnoi gang took duty for Siddique’s homicide was additionally allegedly from Shubham Lonkar’s account.
Whereas Pravin was arrested from Pune on Sunday night, Shubham remains to be on the run.
The names of the Lonkar brothers had been utilized by the police in court docket on Monday to state formally for the primary time that the Bishnoi gang could possibly be behind Siddique’s killing.
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Within the Fb put up, Lonkar claimed that Siddique had been killed as a result of he was linked to India’s most needed terrorist Dawood Ibrahim, was near Salman Khan and due to the demise of Anuj Thapan, one of many arrested suspects within the taking pictures exterior Mr Khan’s home, in police custody.
Thapan was discovered useless on Might 1 contained in the Mumbai Crime Department lock-up. The police had mentioned he died by suicide however his household had claimed he was tortured in custody.
“We shouldn’t have any enmity with anybody however whoever helps Salman Khan and the Dawood gang, maintain your accounts so as (‘hisab-kitaab kar lena’),” Lonkar wrote in Hindi within the Fb put up, whose authenticity is being verified.
Safety has been tightened round Mr Khan’s home in Bandra in addition to his farmhouse in Panvel close to Mumbai.