Baba Siddique homicide: The accused’s final Instagram submit was on August 4.
Shiv Kumar, one of many suspected killers of Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique, shared a telling submit on Instagram practically three months in the past. Sporting a white and gray chequered shirt and a pair of blue denims, he was seen standing towards a motorbike. “Yaar tera gangster hai jaani (your good friend is a gangster),” Kumar captioned the photograph he posted on July 24.
“Sharif baap hai, hum nahin (my father is an honourable man, not me), learn one other submit.
Considered one of his posts, a quick video of the Mumbai skyline, featured a background rating from ‘KGF’ – a movie a couple of mercenary – with its dialogue “highly effective folks make locations highly effective”.
His final submit on Instagram was on August 4.
Kumar is among the three shooters who fired a number of photographs on the former minister of Maharashtra Baba Siddique in Bandra on Saturday evening. Whereas his accomplices – Gurmail Baljit Singh and Dharmaraj Rajesh Kashyap – had been arrested the evening of the crime, he managed to flee.
Based on the police, Shiv Kumar reached Kurla station in a rickshaw from Bandra. Investigation revealed that the accused then took a prepare from Harbor Line from Kurla to Panvel station. He was final seen in Panvel and the police suspect he left the state by taking an categorical prepare from Panvel.
Two of the three alleged shooters within the case – Kumar and Kashyap – are from Gandara village in Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh. From poor households, each had moved to Pune from their village after Holi to earn cash. When EDNBOX reached out to their households, they mentioned that they had no details about why and once they went to Mumbai. The third accused, Singh, is from Haryana.
Locals and police within the Gandara village mentioned Kumar had no legal historical past. They mentioned that he had gone to work at a scrap store in Pune.
Kumar’s mom, Suman, expressed disbelief over the police’s declare that his son was amongst these concerned within the sensational killing of Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) chief and former lawmaker Siddique. The 66-year-old was outdoors his son Zeeshan Siddique’s workplace in Kher Nagar in Mumbai’s Bandra space when three folks took cowl of Dussehra fireworks and opened fireplace at him. Sources mentioned the three males had thrown chilli powder on the police constable who was guarding Siddique.
Siddique was rushed to the close by Lilavati Hospital, the place he was declared lifeless.
The police have arrested three folks within the high-profile killing, which has sparked a political controversy with opposition leaders slamming the Maharashtra authorities over “the situation of legislation and order” within the state.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, in the meantime, has assured that these accountable for Siddique’s brutal homicide is not going to escape justice.
On Sunday night, a 28-year-old man was arrested from Pune. The police mentioned the arrested man, Pravin Lonkar, was a “co-conspirator” and added that they had been looking out for his brother, Shubham Lonkar.
Based on the police, Shubham Lonkar posted on social media that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang has taken duty for the homicide. His brother Pravin gave shelter to each the arrested accused in Pune.
Against the law department official on Sunday mentioned Pravin and Shubham had enlisted two alleged shooters – Kashyap and Kumar.