Baba Siddique News: Lawrence Bishnoi gang member reveals chilling details, NCP leader ‘was killed because…’

Arrested gang shooter Lawrence Bishnoi has claimed Baba Siddique was “not a good man” and had connections to India’s most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim. NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was killed in a shootout by three gunmen.

The 66-year-old NCP leader was attacked outside son Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Mumbai’s exclusive Bandra area on the night of October 12. Hours later he succumbed to his injuries at Lilavati Hospital.

Yogesh, alias Raju, linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi-Hashim Baba gangs, said, “Baba Siddique was killed because he was not a good man,” he reported. PTI. Notably, Raju, who was arrested in Uttar Pradesh, is not associated with the NCP leader’s murder case.

Raju faces allegations related to the case related to the killing of gym owner Nadir Shah in Delhi’s Greater Kailash area last month. Raju was arrested after an encounter with a joint team of Delhi Police Special Cell and Mathura Police on October 17 morning. The UP police seized a .32 caliber pistol, ammunition and a motorcycle owned by Raju.

According to the PTI report, there were charges against Baba Siddique under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA), who was associated with the man behind the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts – Dawood Ibrahim. “When people get involved with these people, something is bound to happen. That’s exactly what happened to Siddique,” PTI quoted Raju as saying.

He added: “They give us direct targets. Anyone who gets in the way and does something wrong will face the consequences.”

On Friday, five more people were arrested in connection with the Baba Siddique murder case, a Mumbai police official said. This brings the total number of arrests in the case to nine. Both conspirator Shubham Lonkar and mastermind Mohammed Zeeshan Akhtar are absconding.