A COURT here on Friday extended till October 26 the police remand of nine accused in the Baba Siddique murder case. The NCP leader and former Maharashtra Minister was shot dead on October 12 near his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Nirmal Nagar in Bandra East. Nine persons, who were arrested on various dates, were produced before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Esplanade Court) V R Patil at the end of their initial remand on Friday. While police sought extension of remand by three days, the court extended it by one day till Saturday. The nine comprise Gurmail Baljit Singh (23), Dharmaraj Kashyap (21), Harish Kumar Nisad (26), Pravin Lonkar (30), Nitin Gautam Sapre (32), Sambhaji Kisan Pardhi (44), Pradeep Dattu Thombre (37), Chetan Dilip Pardhi and Ram Fulchand Kanoujia (43). As per police, Haryana resident Singh and Uttar Pradesh native Kashyap as well as wanted accused Shivkumar Gautam shot at Siddique, while Pune-based Pravin Lonkar’s brother Shubham is allegedly associated with jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.

 

8 Bishnoi gang shooters arrested by Delhi Police: IN A crackdown on the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, the Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested at least eight suspected shooters who were planning to target someone in Rajasthan, officials here said on Friday. The arrests come days after the sensational murder of NCP leader and former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique in Mumbai on October 12. The Bishnoi gang has claimed responsibility for the murder. The officials said that the eight arrests were made from Punjab and other States and a huge quantity of arms and ammunition have also been recovered from those nabbed. It is suspected that they were planning to target someone in Rajasthan on the direction of Arzoo Bishnoi, who is a close confidant of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, an officer said. He said the accused are being further interrogated.