Baba Siddique homicide: One other suspect held from Punjab, twenty fourth arrest in case | Newest Information India

Akashdeep Karajsingh Gill, 22, was arrested by Punjab’s Fazilka district and was held by the Mumbai Crime Department in coordination with the Anti-Gangster Job Drive (AGTF) of the northern state. That is the twenty fourth arrest within the case.

“He supplied logistic assist within the capturing. He was held from Fazilka tehsil there. Gill is being dropped at Mumbai on transit remand for additional authorized motion,” an unidentified official was quoted as saying by PTI.

The NCP chief was gunned down on October 12 close to his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique’s workplace in Bandra East’s Nirmal Nagar space by three assailants.

On November 10, the Mumbai Crime Department and the Uttar Pradesh Particular Job Drive arrested Shiv Kumar – the alleged most important shooter – from Nanpara in UP’s Bahraich district. The Lawrence Bishnoi gang had claimed the accountability for the homicide.

A senior STF official claimed that Dharamraj, a childhood good friend 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 mentioned Dharamraj’s relative who was in contact with Shubham Lonkar was in direct contact with Lawrence Bishnoi by means of snap chat.

He mentioned Lonkar had promised them ₹10 lakh for the homicide, supplied firearms and lodging facility in Mumbai to do recce of Baba Siddique. He mentioned the remaining ones have been arrested for helping Gautam to assist in crossing over the India-Nepal border and his secure keep in Nepal.

Throughout investigation, it additionally emerged Shiv Kumar Gautam visited the spot of the firing in Bandra East after the crime and later even went to Lilavati Hospital in Bandra West to substantiate Siddique’s loss of life.

(Inputs from PTI)