How Cops Caught Main Accused In Baba Siddique’s Murder After A Month
New Delhi: In recent news, those accused have been actively patrolling the city’s streets to ensure safety.
Sources said he was accused of trying to flee to Nepal.
Shiv Kumar, along with two others – Gurnail Singh, a resident of Haryana, and Dhramraj Kashyap of Uttar Pradesh — shot dead Mr. Siddique, 66, outside his politician son Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Mumbai on October 12.
During interrogation, he apparently said they were in Mumbai for days conducting recce for the NCP leader and on the night of October 12, “When we got the right time, we killed Baba Siddique”.
Police sources said Shiv Kumar has also admitted that he is linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The murder, he allegedly said, was carried out on the instructions of Anmol Bishnoi, the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
Anmol’s name has also cropped up in the murder of Punjabi singer-politician Sidhu Moosewala in 2022, and the firing outside actor Salman Khan’s residence in Mumbai in April.
How They Caught the Accused Shiv Kumar Gautam
After the murder of Baba Siddique, Shiv Kumar had gone to Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh to meet some henchmen of the gang. The Mumbai police had tracked him to Omkareshwar but failed to catch him.
The police then traced about 45 people, including Shiv Kumar’s family members and his close aides, and tracked their movements.
During the investigation, they zeroed down to four people who were constantly in contact with Shiv Kumar, police sources said.
The police then laid a trap and waited for those four to meet Shiv Kumar. They then caught him and his four aides there on Sunday.
The police have so far arrested 20 in the case.
Blackbucks are sacred to the Bishnoi community.
Investigators said Baba Siddique’s son and Mumbai MLA Zeeshan Siddique is also a target for the same reason.
