Baba Siddique homicide: The accused’s final Instagram publish was on August 4.
Shiv Kumar, one of many suspected killers of Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique, shared a telling publish on Instagram practically three months in the past. Wearing a white and gray chequered shirt and a pair of blue denims, he was seen standing in opposition to a motorbike. “Yaar tera gangster hai jaani (your buddy is a gangster),” Kumar captioned the picture he posted on July 24.
“Sharif baap hai, hum nahin (my father is an honourable man, not me), learn one other publish.
One of his posts, a short 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 publish on Instagram was on August 4.
Kumar is without doubt one of the three shooters who fired a number of pictures on the former minister of Maharashtra Baba Siddique in Bandra on Saturday night time. While his accomplices – Gurmail Baljit Singh and Dharmaraj Rajesh Kashyap – have been arrested the night time of the crime, he managed to flee.
According to the police, Shiv Kumar reached Kurla station in a rickshaw from Bandra. Investigation revealed that the accused then took a practice 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 practice 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 NDTV reached out to their households, they mentioned that they had no details about why and after they went to Mumbai. The third accused, Singh, is from Haryana.
Locals and police within the Gandara village mentioned Kumar had no felony 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 Party (NCP) chief and former lawmaker Siddique. The 66-year-old was exterior 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 useless.
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 regulation and order” within the state.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, in the meantime, has assured that these accountable for Siddique’s brutal homicide won’t 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 have been looking out for his brother, Shubham Lonkar.
According to the police, Shubham Lonkar posted on social media that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang has taken accountability 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.