Baba Siddique shot dead by NCP: Who are the murderers? Is the Lawrence Bishnoi gang involved? What the Mumbai Police have found out so far | Latest News India

Gurmail Baljit Singh, 23, is a resident of Haryana while Dharmaraj Rajesh Kashyap, 19, is from Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai Police said in a statement.

Mumbai Police added that the case was being investigated by the Crime Branch and a search for the third accused was underway.

Police also said the investigation was being conducted from all possible angles.

News agency ANI, quoting Mumbai Police, reported that the accused visited Baba Siddiqui’s house and office premises. They were in Mumbai for a month and a half to two months and were keeping an eye on him.

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News agency PTI reported on Sunday, citing officials, that police have launched an investigation into the killing of the former Maharashtra minister from various angles, including a possible contract killing, a business rivalry or a threat over a slum redevelopment project, officials said on Sunday.

The body of Baba Siddique (66), who was shot dead by three assailants in Mumbai on Saturday evening, was shifted from Lilavati Hospital to Cooper Hospital for a post-mortem around 6am on Sunday.

The shocking incident has prompted the opposition to question the law and order situation in the state, which is scheduled to hold assembly elections next month.

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Baba Siddique was attacked and shot at by three men in Kher Nagar in Mumbai’s Bandra district, right outside the office of his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique.

He was brought to emergency medical services at Lilavati Hospital at 9:30 p.m. in an unresponsive condition with no pulse, no cardiac activity, no blood pressure and with a history of gunshot wounds to the chest, medical facility officials said.

Siddique had lost a lot of blood and resuscitation was started immediately. He was transferred to the intensive care unit where further resuscitation attempts were made. Despite all resuscitation efforts, doctors were unable to revive him and he was declared dead at 11.27pm on Saturday, they said.

A case regarding the incident was registered at Nirmal Nagar police station under Crime Registration Number 589/2024, Sections 103(1), 109, 125 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Sections 3, 25, 5 and 27 of the Arms Act and Section 37 and Section 137 of the Maharashtra Police Act, police said.

While some reports claimed that the two suspects arrested in Baba Siddique’s murder claimed they belonged to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, ANI reported that the Delhi Police will send a special investigation team to Mumbai to investigate to investigate murder.

A suspected gangster’s motive behind Baba Siddiqui’s murder is believed to be to expand his influence in Mumbai, ANI quoted sources in the Special Cell of Delhi Police as saying.