Baba Siddique killing: Man from Haryana among 4 more held

An serviceman said that Kumar, a nonmigratory of Kaithal territory successful Haryana was an adjutant of Zeeshan Akhtar, 1 of the main conspirators of the execution who is present absconding. After Akhtar was released from prison, helium resided with Kumar who had taken a level connected rent.

“Despite not having a regular job, helium would roam astir successful high-end cars. He besides has a transgression record. We are checking if helium has worked for the Lawrence Bishnoi pack successful the past,” the serviceman added.

Regarding the relation of different accused, an serviceman said that they were to initially occurrence astatine Siddique but yet backed out. They were arrested arsenic they were alert of the conspiracy. Based connected his interrogation, constabulary recovered that Shivkumar Gautam, absconding accused who changeable astatine Siddique, was straight successful interaction with Akhtar.

“So far, we were looking for the communal nexus betwixt the Pune module led by Shubham Akhtar and the Haryana module led by Zeeshan Akhtar. We person recovered that the 2 sides were linked to each different and spoke respective times earlier the deed was carried out,” the serviceman said.

Police are connected the lookout for Akhtar, Shubham Lonkar and Gautam who were believed to beryllium straight taking orders from the Bishnoi pack to weapon down Siddique. The NCP person was changeable dormant extracurricular the bureau of his MLA son, Zeeshan Siddique, successful Bandra connected October 12.

Police said prima facie it appears that the motive was to make fearfulness astir the Bishnoi pack to transportation retired extortion activities successful the city.