Anmol killed Siddique to assert dominion: Police

The Mumbai police crime branch on Monday filed a charge sheet in the case of murder of former Maharashtra minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique, stating that fugitive gangster Anmol Bishnoi ordered the killing to "create an atmosphere of terror" through his organised crime syndicate.

- Manish Kumar Pathak

In the 4,590-page charge sheet filed in a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in Mumbai, the crime branch has named 29 accused, including 26 already arrested and three wanted persons who have been termed key conspirators in the case, including Anmol Bishnoi, the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Mohammad Yasin Akhtar and Shubham Lonkar.

Siddique, 66, was shot dead on October 12, 2024, by three assailants outside his son Zeeshan Siddique's office in the Bandra area of Mumbai. The 26 arrested accused include the alleged main shooter Shivkumar Gautam and his aides. Police have seized five firearms, six magazines and 84 rounds apart from 35 mobile handsets from the arrested accused.