Nov 10, 2024 10:41 PM IST
An STF official confirmed these arrested included Shiv Kumar Gautam, Anurag Kashyap, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Akash Srivastava and Akhilendra Pratap Singh, all residents of Bahraich
In a serious breakthrough in Mumbai’s Baba Siddique homicide case, U.P. Particular Activity Pressure arrested 5 individuals from Bahraich district on Sunday. These arrested included the third assailant Shiv Kumar Gautam, confirmed U.P. extra director normal (ADG), legislation and order, Amitabh Yash right here.
Siddique, 66, a former Maharashtra minister and a frontrunner of Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP), was shot lifeless exterior his son Zeeshan Siddique’s workplace in Mumbai’s Neelamnagar space on October 12. (For Illustration)
Siddique, 66, a former Maharashtra minister and a frontrunner of Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP), was shot lifeless exterior his son Zeeshan Siddique’s workplace in Mumbai’s Neelamnagar space on October 12 by three assailants, together with two Bahraich residents. The Lawrence Bishnoi gang had claimed the accountability for the homicide.
In a press observe shared with the media, an STF official confirmed these arrested included Shiv Kumar Gautam, Anurag Kashyap, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Akash Srivastava and Akhilendra Pratap Singh, all residents of Bahraich.
He stated they had been all arrested from Nanpara, Bahraich, after they had been planning to cross over to Nepal by way of the porous India-Nepal border adjoining Bahraich district. Within the incident, one Bahraich resident Dharam Raj Kashyap and one Punjab resident Gurmail Singh had been arrested from the spot instantly after the crime whereas Shiv Kumar Gautam was at giant since then.
A senior STF official claimed that Dharamraj, a childhood pal of Shiv Kumar Gautam, had roped in Gautam for executing the homicide, and certainly one of his family members was into scrap enterprise in Pune. He stated Dharamraj’s relative who was in contact with Shubham Lonkar was in direct contact with Lawrence Bishnoi by way of snap chat.
He stated Lonkar had promised them ₹10 lakh for the homicide, offered firearms and lodging facility in Mumbai to do recce of Baba Siddique. He stated the remaining ones had been arrested for helping Gautam to assist in crossing over the India-Nepal border and his protected keep in Nepal.
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