Shivakumar Gautam, the Lawrence Bishnoi gang member suspected to be the foremost shooter within the homicide of Maharashtra politician Baba Siddique, has reportedly knowledgeable Mumbai Police the gang had additionally mentioned “concentrating on” Aftab Poonawala, the accused within the Shraddha Walkar homicide case.
“Shiva disclosed that Shubham Lonkar, a member of the gang, and different senior figures had expressed intentions to focus on Aftab. This intelligence has now been shared with the Delhi Police,” The Instances of India quoted an official of the Mumbai Police as saying.
“Nevertheless, the gang avoided concentrating on Poonawala due to his heightened safety,” the official acknowledged.
Shraddha Walkar homicide case
In Might 2022, Walkar was allegedly strangled to dying by Poonawala, her live-in-partner. He then chopped her physique into 35 items; he saved Walkar’s physique elements in a fridge and scattered the items throughout 18 days at numerous places in Delhi.
The couple, who had relocated to the nationwide capital from Bengaluru, have been estranged from Shraddha’s household as her mother and father disapproved the connection.
In January 2023, Delhi Police filed a chargesheet of greater than 6600 pages within the case. Subsequently, a trial courtroom framed the costs of homicide and disappearance towards Aftab.
Baba Siddique homicide case
The politician was shot lifeless outdoors the workplace of his son, Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique, in Mumbai on October 12. A pacesetter of the Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP), which is a member of Maharashtra’s three-party ruling alliance, Siddique was identified for his lavish ‘iftar’ events that have been attended by the bigwigs of Bollywood, the Mumbai-based Hindi movie business.
Celebrity Salman Khan, an in depth pal of Siddique and a daily on the latter’s events, has been threatened a number of occasions by the Bishnoi gang over a decades-old case. Veteran screenwriter Saleem Khan, Salman’s father, has firmly dismissed Siddique was killed due to his friendship with the actor.