Nagpur: Deputy Chief Minister and State Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis said cops have found some clues in the shocking murder of NCP (Ajit Pawar) leader Baba Siddique but he refused to confirm reports of the involvement of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang in the incident.
Speaking to reporters in Gondia, Fadnavis slammed veteran leader Sharad Pawar for “politicising” the issue over the latter’s statement on the “deteriorating law and order situation”. When asked about the Bishnoi gang angle, Fadnavis said, “In media, various theories are being floated, and everyone is flashing news as per their whims and fancies. A lot of theories are coming out, but there is nothing official about it. All I can say is that some angles have come to the fore, and the investigation is going on. Now, whatever information is not going to impact the investigation will be shared by the police with the media.”
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He added that though certain clues are being pursued by the cops. Fadnavis said, “Police arrested two people in this case. The investigation is currently going on, some clues are coming across, but it would not be proper to talk about it here.”
Regarding Sharad Pawar’s criticism of the law and order situation, Fadnavis said, “Sharad Pawar is focused only on securing power. Even after such a serious incident, they can only think about coming to power, but we are thinking about Maharashtra.”
Bone test reveals Siddique’s murder accused not a minor:
Three accused in politician Baba Siddique’s murder are now in police custody, including a co-conspirator and another whose claim of being a minor has been ruled out by a bone ossification test.
Mumbai Police investigating the murder case of veteran NCP leader Baba Siddique, who was shot dead near his son’s office in Mumbai’s Bandra on Saturday, conducted an ossification test of accused Dharmaraj Kashyap in which it was proved that he is not a minor. Kashyap, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was produced before the court where his lawyer claimed that he was a minor.
Among the three shooters, Gurmel Baljit Singh, 23, a resident of Haryana has also been arrested, while the third shooter, Shiv Kumar from Uttar Pradesh, is still on the run.
On Sunday evening, Mumbai Police’s Crime Branch also arrested 28-year-old Pravin Lonkar, a “co-conspirator” in the case, from Pune. They said they were on the lookout for his brother, Shubham Lonkar. The brothers had hatched the conspiracy of Siddique’s murder and enlisted Kashyap and Kumar Gautam in the plot.
