News Mania / Piyal Chatterjee / 19th October 2024
According to a Lawrence Bishnoi gang shooter who was apprehended in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Baba Siddique of the Nationalist Congress Party was “not a good man” and had ties to Dawood Ibrahim, India’s most wanted criminal.Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, 66, was shot and killed on the evening of October 12 in the Bandra neighborhood of Mumbai, outside the office of his son Zeeshan Siddique, an MLA.
An accomplice of the Lawrence Bishnoi-Hashim Baba gangs, Yogesh alias Raju (26), was speaking to the media following his detention in relation to the murder of gym owner Nadir Shah in Delhi’s Greater Kailash neighborhood last month. However, according to news agency PTI, he is not connected to the murder of Baba Siddique.
After being hurt during a Thursday early encounter with a combined squad from the Delhi Police’s Special Cell and the Mathura Police, Yogesh, also known as Raju, was taken into custody. Police confiscated a motorcycle, ammunition, and a.32-bore handgun from him. Raju was transported to the district hospital after being shot in the leg. Speaking to reporters at the hospital on Thursday, he mentioned Baba Siddique.
“Baba Siddique was killed because he was not a good man. There were charges against him under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). It is said that he was associated with Dawood, the man behind the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts,” Raju alleged.
“When people get involved with such individuals, something is bound to happen. This is exactly what happened to Siddique,” Raju added. Talking about criminals gathering information before committing a crime, the shooter said, “These days we have mobile phones, the internet, Google and so on. We can find out a lot about a person through these means.”
Reacting sharply to Raju’s allegations, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi questioned why “he is giving media bytes like some action hero”. “He’s one of the Bishnoi gang members and is also a shooter arrested in Late Baba Siddique ji’s case and he is giving media bytes like some action hero explaining his stunts and that too in a police station,” Priyanka Chaturvedi posted on X.
Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate slammed the police for standing behind him as a spectator while he is “justifying the murder of Baba Siddique”.
“This killer is giving interviews on TV with ease. Justifying the murder of Baba Siddique…. BJP has turned the country into a circus. Are the courts sleeping???” Supriya Shrinate posted in Hindi.
